Children of Blood and Bone Book Review
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ (4 out of 5)
This book was on my TBR list for the longest time. At first, I found it difficult to keep up with the book because of the length and the lore behind the story. However, once I was truly able to sit down and began to read the book, I was hooked! The book, inspired by West African mythology, takes place in the fictional land of Orisha. It features the perspectives of three characters, Inan, Zelie, and Amari. Although each character’s narratives are pretty distinctive, I thought that Amari’s chapters were often repetitive and unnecessary to the plot because she never really helped fight and mainly stuck by Zelie’s side.
I think this book would appeal to many young adult readers because there is a lot of action and many intense scenes, with the pacing of the book being relatively fast. There is also the enemies to lovers trope for people who enjoy reading that kind of romance. However, there were some parts where I felt were rushed, like the relationship between Zelie and Inan, where the extreme hatred between them suddenly became love. Overall, I really enjoyed reading this book and I plan to read the remaining books in the series. It was an exciting read and has a complex plot line that keeps you engaged.
In the land of Orisha, magic used to flow through the veins of the maji. However, one night, everything changes when the merciless king kills all the maji, destroying all magic. Now, children of the maji, diviners, are distinguished by a strand of white hair and are treated terribly by the rest of society. But Zelie, a diviner, has one chance to bring magic back. But to do so, she has to leave behind her home and everything she knows. With the help of her brother and a rogue princess, Zelie races against time to bring magic back to Orisha back again.
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