In her author’s note, Barron describes how this book has risen from her explorations of the traditions of her West African ancestors.Ī truly #BlackGirlMagic, cloudy-day, curl-up kind of book. The astonishing series of subsequent revelations leaves readers agog, eager to know how Maya and her pals will use their powers to heal the veil and save their mostly Black and brown neighborhood. Not only that, but Frankie’s newly found gift came from her late mother, who is also an orisha, and Eli is part orisha, too. What Maya, Frankie, Eli, and readers find out from Maya’s mother is that Papa’s real identity is Elegguá, the most powerful of the West African orishas, guardian of the veil between this world and those of the darkbringers and other forces.
Maya, a comic-book–loving, anemic 12-year-old Black girl, is suffering through situational math when she experiences a sudden, time-stopped moment when “the color bled from the world like someone was sucking it away through a straw.” That is not the only strange incident: Maya has an all-too-real dream of a man with skin “the color of the moon” and “pale violet eyes” who has the same color-sucking ability her structural engineer papa literally disappears in front of her and when she and her friends Frankie and Eli find themselves fighting shape-shifting darkbringers, Frankie discovers her own light-shooting skills. With her friends-Eli, Frankie, Zeran, and Eleni-by her side, Maya leads the charge in an epic showdown that takes her across worlds and to the edge of the universe.Maya knows her father’s stories aren’t real-are they?
She must face the Lord of Shadows or risk losing everything. But when an attack hits close to home, Maya doesn't have any more time to prepare. She's honing her guardian powers, with the help of two new allies-her long lost guardian sister and a mysterious darkbringer (who might be a double agent). Maya and her friends aren't going down without a fight. And it's only a matter of time before he breaks through the veil and destroys Maya's neighborhood and the rest of the world.
The Lord of Shadows has raised an army powerful enough to challenge the orishas. Despite everything Maya and her father have done, the veil that protects the human world is failing. In the thrilling third and final book in the acclaimed Maya and the Rising Dark trilogy that Kirkus calls "truly #BlackGirlMagic," Maya must face off with the Lord of Shadows to save the human world from impending war with the Dark.
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