The most outrageous emblem of these thematic and practical difficulties is the head kidnapper in charge, Pesh - Chidin (Eric Schweig), a psychotic Apache brujo (witch) who tosses colored dust into adversaries» faces to make them blind and bewildered (his face, badly scarred by smallpox, again calls up memories of The Searchers, whose primary Indian villain was Cicatrice [Henry Brand]-RRB-. (popmatters.com)
In a guest post, Córdova elaborates on the unique witches in her novel, the brujas and brujos of Brooklyn. (bookpage.com)
Wracked with guilt, Alex joins forces with Nova, an angry brujo boy, and Rishi, her nonmagical best friend, to face a horde of otherworldly creatures and attempt to save her family. (booklistonline.com)