Failing at a Calling leads basically to banishment.) Voya is nervous but ready, right up until she is visited by her ancestor, Mama Jova, and forced to witness her brutal murder as an enslaved person. (For those rare members of witch families who do not receive a Calling the life forward is, at best, one of endless humiliation among friends and family. It is both exciting and terrifying, and also pretty much unavoidable. Set in Toronto in the year 2049, teenager Voya Thomas has at last experienced her Calling – the moment when one of her ancestors comes forward and gives her a challenge she must achieve in order to receive her power. In an intoxicating blend of science fiction and fantasy, author Liselle Sambury has written in Blood Like Magic a novel that embraces technological advances while wholly immersing the text with magic.
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