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Children of Blood and Bone By Tomi Adeyemi Review

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"They don't hate you, my child. They hate what you were meant to become."

Children of Blood and Bone is set in a world without magic, with the king destroying magic and killing people would could use magic and even their children. Zelie ends up helping the king's daughter Amari out of the village with a scroll that could be used to bring magic back. 

Let me say, it's extremely hard to write a fantasy book with such a detailed world and plot, but Adeyemi did it perfectly. I finished this 525 page book in less then 24 hours, which shows how invested I was in this story.


The characters had personalities and most of all, reasons for their actions! At first, I hated the multiple perspectives, as soon as I knew who was who and why we had their POV, I ended up enjoying them all. 

I loved the relationship that was starting to develop between Tzain and Amari. I feel like that's how the author should've done the other relationship. I adored when they would share a look between each other or just sweet things Tzain did for Amari.

In every book, there's going to be somethings you don't like, which in this book was the insta-love. All it took for Zelie to notice Inan was a page or two, and suddenly she notices how handsome he is. They've both completely forgotten that they were literally dueling, trying to kill each other a few chapters ago. I felt like that was very uncharacteristic of the Zelie we had come to know and love. I agree with Tzain, that Inan can't just be forgiven, in a page or two. I would've liked him to save her in the end, and then have them realize they like each other, and end up being torn apart by Inan staying back with his father, which would've made me need the second book even more.

I would've liked a little more background on the king. He seems like a pretty stereotypical villain, I like when the villain has some character and meaning behind his actions. 

Despite the little things in this book I did not care for, I loved everything else and cannot wait for the sequel!

   

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