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

Tomi Adeyemi

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May 31, 2018 Lindsey Z rated it liked it

*3.5 stars*
The force of this novel is Adayemi’s use of West African (particularly Yoruba) belief systems to comment on how we humanely govern people, how we develop empathy for people different from ourselves, how we prevent genocide, and how we change racist ideology that often results in violence. One of the magic powers in the novel is the ability to enter into someone’s mind to feel their past experiences and current emotions, so Adayemi equates empathy with magic, which I thought was geniu ...more

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Nov 08, 2019 Farhana Faruq rated it it was amazing

Shelves: young-adult, fantasy

This was really good. It's well written, keeps you engaged throughout, creative in terms of mixing fantasy and Nigerian mythology and I love the reason the author wrote this book.

The story is about a girl name Zelie. She's from a line of magi and is up against a king who wants to destroy all magic. Zelie is actually one of my less likable characters but it works well in this.

Adeyemi wrote this after seeing all the unarmed black men, women and children being shot by police. Her way of coping wi ...more

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