Magica Riot - Maidensong Magica Book One

Claire always wanted to be a girl.
She never dreamed she'd be a magical girl.
The last night of Claire Ryland's old life was pretty normal, aside from the alley fight with interdimensional monsters. Fortunately, the drummer of her favorite local band transformed into a magical girl and saved her.
Then Claire became a magical girl as well. Things got a little complicated after that.
Now Claire is juggling two new lives: living as a girl and as a member of Portland's super-secret supernatural defense squad, the hard-rocking magical girls known as Magica Riot!
Magica Riot is now available in print, ebook, and audiobook formats! Written by Kara Buchanan, with beautiful cover art by Amber Dill.
Book One of the Maidensong Magica universe of queer magical girl stories.
"Magica Riot by Kara Buchanan is brilliant trans joy. It’s a charming delight filled with appreciation of music and of queer women…Magica Riot is in other words a book that needed to be written. I want to give a copy to every trans woman I love. This is not to say this is a book for trans people only. It’s a good book for girls and women of different ages, for anyone who loves women, anyone who is a feminist, anyone who loves music." -Dean Leetal, Strange Horizons Magazine
"This book asks the important question: What if the Powerpuff Girls were a trans punk band with magical music powers who fight monsters and save the world? The answer, it turns out, is a heck of a lot of fun." –Dani Finn, author of The World Within and They of the West
"When I read the first book in Charlie Jane Anders' Unstoppable Trilogy, I knew it was the sort of book I would have been obsessed with in middle school, had such queer books existed. Magica Riot gives me the same vibes." -Vivian Moira Valentine, author of the Amelia Temple series
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NEW! Audiobook:
Magica Riot is now available as an audiobook, narrated by voice actor Emma Martello!
(Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative, Demon Slayer, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure)
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Content Warnings
Mentions of off-screen abuse, mentions of off-screen death, realistic fantasy blood and viscera, comic book-style action and combat, multiple head impacts, mention of heights/falling, one instance of biting in the context of a fight, one mild instance of misgendering, romantic intimacy, body possession, a plot-relevant insect, occasional cursing.