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Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
4.0

The last 200 pages really pulled me in and I didn't want to stop reading until I was done. Good sign for a book ^^

Though I have to agree with some of the other comments I've read that the whole 'two sets of siblings, and they all fall in love with the non-sibling-person of another gender, neatly and heterosexually pairing them all off' was a bit Ugh. Especially between Zéli and Inan. Going from murderous intent to lust and even love withing (I think) 24 hours? Really?
Because of the warning by Mama Agba about Connectors, I was hoping that Inan connecting to Zélie would be mentioned as a cause for this (and not in a 'That just happens and is all good' way) and that it would become a plotpoint of some sort. Unfortunately it didn't. (Not that I know when that should have happened, maybe it will come in part two? But still, that was less nice about the book, for me.)