Review of Children of Blood and Bone

Reading Children of Blood & bone. The narrative & descriptions felt so real. Whenever I got lost in a fantasy world of panthenaires, lionaires, maji, kosidans and magic I never wanted leave. Those moments felt like I lived the fiction & I wanted no escape.

"Kwame brushes past me, running for the heart of the battle. He grips a dagger tight in his hands.
Then he slashes open his palm.
Blood magic.
Horror settles into my bones.
It’s like the world slows to a stop, stretching the seconds between this moment and the last Kwame will ever have. His blood glows with a white light, splashing as it hits the ground.
In an instant the ivory light surrounds him, illuminating his dark skin like a god from above.
When it reaches the top of his head, it seals his fate.
A fire explodes from his skin.
Smoldering embers rain from his body. Flames blaze around his form. The fire erupts from every limb, shooting out of his mouth, his arms, his legs. The blast towers meters into the sky, a blaze so powerful it lights the horrors of the night. Shock stops the guards’ attack just as Kwame’s begin...
s grander than any flame a maji could conjure on his own. He burns with the power of his god, but it burns through him.
His dark face flushes red, veins tearing from within. His skin bubbles and scalds from his flesh, revealing corded muscle and hard bone. He can’t contain it. He can’t outlast it.
The blood magic eats him alive..."

Like pure descriptive reality I envision Kwame as he ruptures in...

flames of his death fuelled through blood magic taking the foes with him. 

The book starts with a intro that hooks the reader right from inception. The intense brawl between Zelie & Uche. 

The orchestrations by the gods to bring magic back. The story line thrilled with so much action taking me with it at every turn. 

Tomi Adeyemi brings into life ink still on a script through such vivid descriptions with so much thrill. The end like the icing coating, the hopelessness, the locked battles. 

The eruption of love between Zelie & Inan. The chills it brings. Half-breathed; my heart seized. 

After bringing back magic, I would love to see the come about. The state of Inan, dead or alive; the fate of the Orisha's soldiers; the new world created. I await a book 2, bravo Tomi Adeyemi. 

Fan Art by Thara