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Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)

Tomi Adeyemi

Start date: July 2, 2018

Finish date: July 10, 2018

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Aug 28, 2018 Shannon rated it really liked it

What a fascinating world Toni Adeyemi has created in Children of Blood and Bone. I loved all of the main characters. I loved their strength, their weakness, their interconnectedness. I loved strong girls on their way to becoming strong women.

I do wish I’d read this book at a time when I wasn’t as distracted and busy because I suspect that would have pushed it to five stars.

As it is, I look forward to more time in Orisha when the sequel arrives.

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Jan 29, 2019 Kristi rated it really liked it

Shelves: fantasy, ya

Great, original storytelling and morally complex but still likable characters. As someone who's getting tired of so many cookie cutter European-style world fantasies, I loved this take and I look forward to reading the sequel. ...more

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Jul 15, 2018 Cat rated it it was ok

Shelves: fiction

I enjoyed the first 50 pages, but it never got deeper than surface level. I'm not sure if this is just because I don't like reading young adult, or if it was a particularly shallow young adult. I was expecting so much more. The characters felt interchangeable, and there was no complexity to anything. There was so much awkward exposition. It felt really shallow, but also really long, which was a bad combination for me. I've never read young adult unless I had to, so maybe I'm just not used to the ...more

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