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Serwa Boateng's Guide to Vampire Hunting is in the Serwa Boateng series, a book series under Rick Riordan Presents by Roseanne A. Brown that focuses on Ghanaian mythology. It was released on September 6, 2022.

Synopsis[]

A 12-year-old is uprooted from her vampire hunting life after her childhood home is viciously attacked by shapeshifting vampires that mask themselves as harmless fireflies, and is sent to the care of an aunt in Maryland for her own protection and forced to attend a “normal” school for the first time, but finds that vampire hunting and seventh grade don’t quite mix; now, it’s up to her to make warriors out of her classmates before they all become vampire food.

For most kids, catching fireflies is a fun summer activity. For twelve-year-old Serwa Boateng, it’s a matter of life or death.

That’s because Serwa knows that some fireflies are really adze, shapeshifting vampires from the forests of Southeastern Ghana. Adze prey on the blood of innocents, possessing their minds and turning them into hulking monsters, and for generations, slayers like Serwa and her parents have protected an unknowing public from their threats.

Serwa is the best adze slayer her age, and she knew how to use a crossbow before she could even ride a bike. But when an obayifo (witch) destroys her childhood home while searching for a drum, do Serwa’s parents take her with them on their quest to defeat her? No. Instead, they dump Serwa with her hippie aunt and cryptic-obsessed cousin in the middle of Nowheresville, Maryland “for her own safety.” Now, instead of crossbows and battle armor, she’s dealing with mean girls and algebra, and for the first time in her life she doesn’t have to carry a staff everywhere she goes, which is . . . kind of nice, actually.

Just as Serwa starts to get the hang of this whole normal girl who doesn’t punch vampires every day thing, an adze infiltrates her school. It’s up to her to whip some of her classmates into monster-fighting shape before all of them become firefly food. And when she uncovers a secret that upends everything she thought she knew about her family’s role in the slayer vs. adze war, Serwa will have to decide which side of herself–normal girl or slayer–is the right one.

After all, seventh grade is hard enough without adding vampires to the mix.

Development[]

Roseanne A. Brown stated on Twitter that the story was influenced by shounen anime, that in addition to adze there would also be obayifo, that she thought it would be fun to write about a magic kid learning to fit in with the normal world instead of the other way around, and that people mispronouncing Serwa's name is an actual plot point.

Plot[]

Unknown.

Characters[]

Trivia[]

  • It was announced along with its sequel on July 27, 2020.
Serwa Boateng series
Books: Serwa Boateng's Guide to Vampire Hunting | Serwa Boateng's Guide to Witchcraft and Mayhem | Serwa Boateng's Guide to Saving the World
Main Characters: Serwa Boateng
Secondary Characters:
Minor Characters:
Akan Gods: Asaase Yaa | Owuo
Creatures: Adze | Mmoatia | Funtunfunefu-Denkyemfunefu
Related Content: Roseanne A. Brown | Rick Riordan Presents
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Shadow Bruja Duology: Lords of Night | Dawn of the Jaguar
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The Gifted Clans series: The Last Fallen Star | The Last Fallen Moon | The Last Fallen Realm
Pahua Moua series: Pahua and the Soul Stealer | Pahua and the Dragon's Secret
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