Loved itThis is a sequel to Children of Blood and Bone, which I read back when it was first published and absolutely loved it, but for some reason didn't jump onto the sequel as soon as it was released.
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Children of Blood and Bone (2017)
Others: Leaning positive Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zélie's Reaper mother summoned forth souls. But everything changed the night magic disappeared. Under the orders of a ruthless king, maji were killed, leaving Zélie without a mother and her people without hope.
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- 9781250170972
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- 544 pages
Genres: fantasy, science fiction, young adult
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Loved it
MixedI really loved it the first time I read it and then I reread it when the sequel came out. I liked it less, unfortunately.
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Not a fani would honestly have put them at soggy because i just disliked that book so much
Loved itit was so much fun i had a fantastic time reading this book i never continued the series because i heard the second book was really bad
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Loved itI loved Children of Blood and Bone. It was one of my favorite books of 2017.
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MixedThis book was super hyped up and I think when I first read it, the hype is a lot of the reason why I liked it so much, but I think if I'm being honest with myself, I didn't enjoy it as much as other fantasies. I think once again it was very formulaic and there's nothing wrong with that.
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MixedI would probably put it in like okay I guess it's just really forgettable and it's not good but I wouldn't say it's bad I feel like it's pretty predictable and like pretty trophy
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Loved itI'm gonna put this in a good tier for now because I feel like it's on par with a lot of the books that I have and good tier
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Loved itchildren of blood and bone I really enjoyed this while I read it but my lingering feeling of it is not like you know I'm obsessed with it I think it's better than okay let's say good tier
Not a fanI didn't believe in the romance I don't think there was any chemistry I thought the main character was really naive and kind of stupid most the time and just making really dumb mistakes throughout the plot and it just it just it didn't add up
Loved itI personally absolutely loved this book so much it's like Black Panther means Avatar and it's just so much fun
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Loved itthe fantasy is all African based and that is so unusual in fantasy and in why fantasy this was so different and so refreshing and that is the main reason that I loved it
Loved itThis was one of my early on favorites of the year, like as soon as I read it I really enjoyed it. I loved it. I think it was great.
MixedI did not actually get that much into this book I actually was listening to the audio book of it... I just never picked up and finished the Audi book but I really want to because everybody loves this book series
Not a fanI found it to be silly the premise was just not interesting enough to drag me in and I knew that it was going to be a series of many books so I was not going to invest my time finishing this book
Loved itI read this book okay it was so surprised because this is a high fantasy book and I was not expecting to be able to follow along so easily with the audiobook version
Loved itchildren are blood and bone by Kamiya DME which I gave a four and a half out of five