Blood Magic by Tessa Gratton

Hi this is Bookish Bloggish and this is the review for Blood magic by Tessa Gratton, Published in England by double day and has 405 pages. This is Gratton's début novel and the beginning of a series.

The book is layed out with three different perspectives. Silla, Nick and Josephine whose diary entries are plastered through out the novel

The story centres around two young people called Nick and Silla. Nick recently moved to Yalaylah  with his father and step mother after his grandfather died. Silla is Grieving over her mother and fathers death which has been classed as her father murdering her mother then taking his own life.

Silla and Nicks lives are soon entwined when The Deacon, a mysterious man that is mentioned several times through out the novel sends Silla a book of spells that has been written by her father, and while trying out a spell on her parents graves, she turns a dead life from red back to green. Nick while walking through the cemetery see’s the magic and it reminds him of his mother who used to cast magic spell of her own.

The book centres around Nick, Silla and her brother finding out about magic and learning what they can do and gradually learning how to cast spells of there own. It shows how a teenager may grieve for her parents by clutching onto an idea that seemed to have been important to her father, and she is convinced that her father did not kill her mother.

The characters in this novel are strong, Silla is very convincing as a grieving teenager, but can be slightly annoying in the beginning of the novel, I found my self hoping to come to a Nick part. Nick on the other hand was strong in other respects, he struggles with his stepmother and gives her a nickname that he seems to fit her, namely Lilith.

Tessa Gratton does a fantastic job on her début novel, its not perfect but for a first attempt was pretty good. Her writing flowed and had a magnificent pace making it hard to put the book down. I loved how in the end the characters find the diary, and use it to help themselves over come obstacles in their way.

Although one annoying thing about the book was the multiple names for the characters. I personally was confused in some places as Lilith for example is known as four different things through out the novel, including Lilith, Mary and Josephine.

The cover for this book is amazing, In England we have the white edition which slightly upset me as the black american edition was even better then the edition I brought. I truly can not wait for the next book!