

Now she must unravel her family's past, take down the killer in the present, and save the future of shadowshaping for generations to come.įull of a joyful, defiant spirit and writing as luscious as a Brooklyn summer night, Shadowshaper introduces a heroine and magic unlike anything else in fantasy fiction, and marks the YA debut of a bold new voice.

But someone is killing the shadowshapers one by one - and the killer believes Sierra is hiding their greatest secret. 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. The first book in the Shadowshaper Cypher series, Shadowshaper follows an Afro-Boricua teenager named Sierra who discovers she has a magical and spiritual family heritage.

And when the murals in her neighborhood begin to weep real tears. Shadowshaper is an urban fantasy young adult novel written by Daniel Jos Older and originally published in 2015. Her stroke-ridden grandfather starts apologizing over and over. But then a corpse crashes the first party of the season. Sierra Santiago planned an easy summer of making art and hanging out with her friends.
