*”Waiting On” Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming, highly-anticipated releases*

I’m excited to bring you my FIRST “Waiting on Wednesday” post! Fittingly, I’m featuring a book that I’m (for the FIRST time ever) on a street team for!

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Labyrinth Lost

Author: Zoraida Córdova

Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire

Publication Date: Sept 6, 2016

About:

Nothing says Happy Birthday like summoning the spirits of your dead relatives.

I fall to my knees. Shattered glass, melted candles and the outline of scorched feathers are all that surround me. Every single person who was in my house – my entire family — is gone.

Alex is a bruja, the most powerful witch in a generation…and she hates magic. At her Deathday celebration, Alex performs a spell to rid herself of her power. But it backfires. Her whole family vanishes into thin air, leaving her alone with Nova, a brujo boy she can’t trust. A boy whose intentions are as dark as the strange markings on his skin.

The only way to get her family back is to travel with Nova to Los Lagos, a land in-between, as dark as Limbo and as strange as Wonderland…

Beautiful Creatures meets Daughter of Smoke and Bone with an infusion of Latin American tradition in this highly original fantasy adventure.

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Why I’m excited

I’d seen this book floating around before the publisher preview and was like ooo pretty cover but didn’t pay much attention otherwise. Then it was pitched and I fell in love. Now, I’m not actually a Latina however I spent 5 years of post-secondary schooling (plus 3 years in high school) immersed in the various cultures of Spanish-speaking peoples while completing my BA in Spanish. I have been adopted as an honourary Venezuelan by my work sisters. That being said, I’M SO FREAKING EXCITED! A fantasy with a heavy dose of Latin American culture? I think Zoraida must have been staring into my heart when she wrote it because it seems like everything I didn’t know I needed. 

Also, hi…that cover ❤

*Disclaimer: I fully intend to thrust this book into the lives of as many Spanish teacher friends as I can. Where was this when I took grade 10 Spanish?!*

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What are you waiting on this week, friends? Have you heard about Labyrinth Lost? Is this a book you’ll be adding to your TBR? ( Pls say yes 😉 )