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Children of Virtue and Vengeance
by Tomi Adeyemi
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Book: Children of Virtue and Vengeance
Author: Tomi Adeyemi
Book Series: The Legacy of Orisha Book 2
Rating: 5/5
Diversity: ownvoice Black characters!
Recommended For...: ya fantasy, high fantasy, magic, ownvoice
Publication Date: December 3, 2019
Genre: YA Fantasy
Recommended Age: 16+ (language, violence, gore, sexual content, depression TW, grief TW, racism in context of magic, religious persecution, and some eugenics imagery)
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 404
Synopsis: After battling the impossible, Zélie and Amari have finally succeeded in bringing magic back to the land of Orïsha. But the ritual was more powerful than they could’ve imagined, reigniting the powers of not only the maji, but of nobles with magic ancestry, too.
Now, Zélie struggles to unite the maji in an Orïsha where the enemy is just as powerful as they are. But when the monarchy and military unite to keep control of Orïsha, Zélie must fight to secure Amari's right to the throne and protect the new maji from the monarchy's wrath.
With civil war looming on the horizon, Zélie finds herself at a breaking point: she must discover a way to bring the kingdom together or watch as Orïsha tears itself apart.
Review: I really loved this book! It was a great action packed sequel to the first book. The book kept the same themes of using prejudice and racism in terms of magic, but in this book we got more of Amari’s story and we saw how a well meaning person can still make mistakes and hurt a culture rather than help it and it showed, in terms of magic again, systematic racism and how that can look through two different perspectives. There was also great writing around grief processing, depression, eugenics imagery, religious persecution, and slavery imagery. The characters were well developed and I loved seeing Zelie get closer to Roen. The pacing was also very even and the book kept me hooked from beginning to end.
The only things that I didn’t like as much were that I thought the world building could have been better and that the beginning is confusing. When you don’t read the books back to back, it gets a little hard to remember all of the details. Thank goodness for wiki or else I would have been so lost.
Verdict: A great read! Definitely recommend this series!
Book: Children of Virtue and Vengeance
Author: Tomi Adeyemi
Book Series: The Legacy of Orisha Book 2
Rating: 5/5
Diversity: ownvoice Black characters!
Recommended For...: ya fantasy, high fantasy, magic, ownvoice
Publication Date: December 3, 2019
Genre: YA Fantasy
Recommended Age: 16+ (language, violence, gore, sexual content, depression TW, grief TW, racism in context of magic, religious persecution, and some eugenics imagery)
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 404
Synopsis: After battling the impossible, Zélie and Amari have finally succeeded in bringing magic back to the land of Orïsha. But the ritual was more powerful than they could’ve imagined, reigniting the powers of not only the maji, but of nobles with magic ancestry, too.
Now, Zélie struggles to unite the maji in an Orïsha where the enemy is just as powerful as they are. But when the monarchy and military unite to keep control of Orïsha, Zélie must fight to secure Amari's right to the throne and protect the new maji from the monarchy's wrath.
With civil war looming on the horizon, Zélie finds herself at a breaking point: she must discover a way to bring the kingdom together or watch as Orïsha tears itself apart.
Review: I really loved this book! It was a great action packed sequel to the first book. The book kept the same themes of using prejudice and racism in terms of magic, but in this book we got more of Amari’s story and we saw how a well meaning person can still make mistakes and hurt a culture rather than help it and it showed, in terms of magic again, systematic racism and how that can look through two different perspectives. There was also great writing around grief processing, depression, eugenics imagery, religious persecution, and slavery imagery. The characters were well developed and I loved seeing Zelie get closer to Roen. The pacing was also very even and the book kept me hooked from beginning to end.
The only things that I didn’t like as much were that I thought the world building could have been better and that the beginning is confusing. When you don’t read the books back to back, it gets a little hard to remember all of the details. Thank goodness for wiki or else I would have been so lost.
Verdict: A great read! Definitely recommend this series!