The Convegence Ritual - The Techno Witch Files 1
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Ages: 12-15, 18+
Nova thought her days of dangerous experiments were over, she prefers troubleshooting coffee machines and wards to rewriting reality. But when a tiny blip in her café's diagnostic feed blooms into a chain of citywide glitches, she recognizes the old signature: the Krewe du Code Noir. That means one thing—Dr. Henrietta Mercier is back.
Mercier's plan isn't petty revenge. She's grafted blood magic to servers and anchored crystalline portals across New Orleans, and now she’s shopping for a marriage between code and ritual. Nova can't let the city she loves become a lab. So she rounds up her ragtag crew: Marcel the Captain, Dare the courier, Marcy the saxophonist, and a very complicated ex-friend named Selene. They break into museums, mansions, and masquerades to pull the plug.
Funny where courage finds you: in old songs, bitter coffee, and friendships you thought were over. This is a gritty, witty chase through a city that always keeps one eye on the dead.
Reviews
New Orleans was already magical but add every kind of spook and sorcery imaginable, including stuff I didn't really imagine before like working magic and technology together in a way they don't explode on contact and you get a very cool setting. I'm a massive Dresden Files fan so if someone throws supernaturals in the city at me I'm usually first at the table and here you eat well. With characters that show lots of potential and a story that could stretch out for novels, this might be a chance to hop on an author just before they take off.
Interesting combination of magic, vampires, witchcraft and technology. It is appropriately set in New Orleans, known for its "eternal dance between the sacred and the profane, the ancient and the modern, the living and the dead." I enjoyed the misfit group of unlikely heroes overcoming their past to work in harmony to defeat the instigator of a cruel change. Nicely set up for the next book in the series to pick up where this one left off.
