Book of Interest: Maya and the Rising Dark

Lately, I've been on a bit of a fantasy kick, I'm currently reading a fantasy, The Gauntlet by Karuna Riazi. And the last Book of Interest I posted was a fantasy and I found another one I want to read, Maya and the Rising Dark by Rena Barron. According to the description, it's going to be up to Maya to save the world when the Lord of Shadows is trying to destroy it. This just seems really interesting because it doesn't seem like she knew she was part god which means she's probably going to have to figure how to use any powers she might have while trying to stop the Lord of Shadows.

Book: Maya and the Rising Dark (Maya and the Rising Dark book #1) by Rena Barron

Description:

In this highly anticipated contemporary fantasy, twelve-year-old Maya’s search for her missing father puts her at the center of a battle between our world, the Orishas, and the mysterious and sinister Dark world. Perfect for fans of Aru Shah and the End of Time and The Serpent’s Secret.

Twelve-year-old Maya is the only one in her South Side Chicago neighborhood who witnesses weird occurrences like werehyenas stalking the streets at night and a scary man made of shadows plaguing her dreams. Her friends try to find an explanation—perhaps a ghost uprising or a lunchroom experiment gone awry. But to Maya, it sounds like something from one of Papa’s stories or her favorite comics.

When Papa goes missing, Maya is thrust into a world both strange and familiar as she uncovers the truth. Her father is the guardian of the veil between our world and the Dark—where an army led by the Lord of Shadows, the man from Maya’s nightmares, awaits. Maya herself is a godling, half orisha and half human, and her neighborhood is a safe haven. But now that the veil is failing, the Lord of Shadows is determined to destroy the human world and it’s up to Maya to stop him. She just hopes she can do it in time to attend Comic-Con before summer’s over.