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Podcast: Behind the Mic With Kirkus Reviews
Episode: BLOOD DEBTS by Terry J. Benton-Walker, read by Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Zeno Robinson, Bahni Turpin, Torian Brackett
Description: Joniece Abbott-Pratt and Zeno Robinson beautifully capture the voices of Cristina and Clement Trudeau, Black teenage twins growing up in a magical New Orleans family. Host Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Emily Connelly discuss this action-packed YA fantasy from Terry J. Benton-Walker. A year after their father’s death, the twins fear their mother is soon to follow. Then they discover she isn’t just ill, but cursed, and they are all targets—so they set out to find the truth. Robinson and Abbott-Pratt pull out all the emotions in a tale full of closely held secrets, danger, romance, and incr...