Magnificent.
Full of a joyful, defiant spirit and writing as luscious as a Brooklyn summer night, Shadowshaper introduces a fantasy heroine and magic unlike any you\'ve ever seen before, and marks the YA debut of a brilliant new storyteller..
Now she must unravel her family\'s past, take down the killer in the present, and save the future of shadowshaping for herself and generations to come.
But someone is killing the shadowshapers one by one -- and the killer believes Sierra is hiding their greatest secret.
Where the powers converge and become one With the help of a fellow artist named Robbie, Sierra discovers shadowshaping, a thrilling magic that infuses ancestral spirits into paintings, music, and stories.
Well, something more sinister than the usual Brooklyn ruckus is going on. . .
And when the murals in her neighborhood begin to weep real tears .
Her stroke-ridden grandfather starts apologizing over and over.
But then a corpse crashes the first party of the season. -- Holly Black, New York Times Book Review Come to the crossroads, to the crossroads come Sierra Santiago planned an easy summer of making art and hanging with her friends.
Magnificent
