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Second Books in a Series Always Drag

Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi

April 15, 2020 by Rachel Leave a Comment

This book is the second installment in the Legacy of Orisha series by Tomi Adeyemi. I enjoyed the first book, thanks to excellent character development and world-building. SPOILERS FOR THE FIRST BOOK FOLLOW!! After killing the evil King, Zelie and the King’s daughter work with other maji to fight against the evil Queen and the Prince, who is no longer on Zelie’s side. Now ordinary people like the Princess have magical powers, but those powers are slightly different from maji. Honestly, I don’t want to […]

High-Stakes YA Quest With Great Ideas But a Bit of a Mixed-Bag in Execution

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

March 2, 2020 by Lisa Bee Leave a Comment

Would you believe that I actually first heard about this YA book from an advertisement during the trailers section of a DVD I took out from the library? Actually, I’m pretty sure I saw it on more than one! How serendipitous to then receive it as a gift. Ultimately, while there were things I really liked about this book, there were also things that I didn’t. Overall, I liked it, but didn’t love it. Being that it is the first of a series, the question […]

“Our lack of power and our oppression are one and the same…”

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

January 27, 2020 by ElCicco 4 Comments

In a recent Time Magazine interview, Tomi Adeyemi described her first volume of the Legacy of Orïsha series as a kind of answer to the question, “What if Harry Potter had been black?” If people of color were represented more widely in literature and shown to be leaders, heroes, empathetic characters, would the world learn to become more accepting of them in real life? Children of Blood and Bone is full of powerful and heroic characters, many of them female, all of them black or […]

We Are All Children of Blood and Bone

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

July 4, 2019 by Jenny S Leave a Comment

#CBR11Bingo – And So It Begins Until that night the maji were able to survive because they used their powers to defend themselves. But eleven years ago, magic disappeared. Only the gods know why (15). This book has been on a lot of “must-read” lists and I’m a fan of writers who draw on diverse cultural traditions to develop their fantasy worlds. One of the things that surprised and intrigued me was how even though this novel is set in a fictional country/region, the story […]

Finally, a Fresh YA Trilogy!

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

March 11, 2019 by Rachel Leave a Comment

Children of Blood and Bone – Tomi Adeyemi Finished March 6, took 4 Stars on Goodreads Genre: Young Adult Rating 4/10 for 2019 overall, 2/2 Young Adult This book was highly recommended to me by a dear friend and several of my favorite bloggers. Zelie is a young woman on the cusp of adulthood, trained in secret to understand the ways of the Maji. Magic ruled her lands in the past, but the King killed every Maji over the age of 13 over a decade ago, […]

Book Roundup

December 17, 2018 by lumenatrix 1 Comment

I have a few books I’ve been putting off reviewing simply because I don’t have much to say about them. That isn’t necessarily because I didn’t like them, I just can’t come up with a lot of words for them. So, I’m going to do a bit of a “at a loss for words round up” and get these in the bank. I’ll put the link to my favorite in the Amazon link box. Little Fires Everywhere (4 Stars) by Celeste Ng Pearl and Maya […]

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