Paramount Pictures is getting in on the action of adapting Young Adult books into film, and has added LABYRINTH LOST to its list.

Hollywood has been taking notice that it’s not a bad thing to invest a little of its money into adapting YA books into one of its movies. Many YA authors can attest to having one or more of their books being option. Now, we can add Zoraida Cordova‘s Labyrinth Lost to the list.

Labyrinth Lost was published September 2016, and it centers on Alejandra “Alex” Mortiz, a powerful bruja (witch) who comes from a family of brujas, but actually despises magic.

When she tries to cast a spell to rid herself of her powers, she accidentally banishes her family to the underworld of Los Lagos instead. So, she now has to rescue her family by using the magic that she hates, and brings her best friend Rishi, and a brujo named Nova whom she doesn’t trust, on the journey with her.

Overview:

Nothing says Happy Birthday like summoning the spirits of your dead relatives.

Alex is a bruja, the most powerful witch in a generation…and she hates magic. At her Deathday celebration, Alex performs a spell to rid herself of her power. But it backfires. Her whole family vanishes into thin air, leaving her alone with Nova, a brujo boy she can’t trust. A boy whose intentions are as dark as the strange marks on his skin.

The only way to get her family back is to travel with Nova to Los Lagos, a land in-between, as dark as Limbo and as strange as Wonderland…

Labyrinth Lost is the first book in the Brooklyn Brujas series.

Also included in Paramount’s YA list are the movie rights to Andrea Portes’s contemporary Anatomy of a Misfit and Sabaa Tahir’s fantasy An Ember in the Ashes.

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