3.49 AVERAGE

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

not bad. fun. had some holes, but not bad. i noticed a number of editing errors. the word “abandoned” was used too much for my liking. a bit repetitive with a predictable ending without a number of things being fleshed out, but that was to be expected.
dark tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

It was a pleasure to suspend my disbelief and visit this land of magic and sorcery.
adventurous dark tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Learning about Lagos and Nigerian mythology was cool, but the story itself was definitely confusing in a lot of places. There were a lot of characters and it was a little hard to keep track of at times. I wished I liked the MC more than I did.  
adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

maryliette's review

4.0
adventurous emotional slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

A really interesting idea wrapped in a pretty hard to follow package. Loved the focus on non-western mythologies and characters, but the writing was inconsistent and frenetic. This may follow from a non-Western approach to storytelling, which admittedly may have gone over my head. But it made finishing somewhat challenging.

2.5 stars, rounded down.