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A review by tanya_tate
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
Did not finish book.
DNF @33%
You can also read it on my blog!!
I don't think I'm going back to this at all.
Life is too short to try and read a book that you been struggling to read since March. Actually before then cause I had the arc of it and struggle with it then.
It's good concept but instead of feeling like a story with the basics being the Orisha/ Yoruba mythology ( which I want to know more about myself), it feel like if Avatar the Last Airbender/ The Legend of Korra was based in African culture instead of Asian,Nomadic and Island/Pacfic culture.
I mean look at this.
Zelie: Katara mixed in with a little Anag since she can wield a staff like he did.
Tzain: Sokka
Amari: Yue mixed in with Souki
Inan: Zuko reject
Amari/Inan Dad: Ozai
All it didn't have was an Azula which probably would have made it more interesting..
Naw!
The fact magic was whipped out and along with the people who had magic was almost like what the Fire Nation did to the Air Nomads.Also the way they were oppressing the ones who probably could do magic if it wasn't gone is how the Fire Nation treated the rest of the nations that didn't destroy. Oh Don't get me started with the fact Zelie's mom was killed. Like that wasn't one of the main story lines for Katara's development in the series,dealing with her hatred of the Fire Nation cause of mom got killed.You can also say the scroll Zelie had was almost the same as Katara's water bending scroll. Also the part I dnfed is where the kids had to find an island that disappears before a solstice in order to bring magic back.. Yeah they totally wasn't an island in Avatar that was on back of a sea lion turtle that disappeared for thousands of years. It totally wasn't two solstices in the series that some very important events happen on them..
Also it seem like I have dodge the bullet by dnfing this early cause it supposed to be a unnecessary romance between Zelie and Zuko reject...
Yeah ..
You know I'm all for authors having books and series that influences them a lot and decide to put little hints of that in work and incorporated it into their own original thing, but only hints and not almost the whole plot of that work.
I have tried hard to like this book. I bought this book for birthday and even got the audiobook which still didn't help even with Bahni Turpin narrating it. She is the reason why I went back to The Hate U give and end finishing and living that book.
The pacing of this book was the killer cause for the almost 160 pages I read,nothing really fucking happens. It really was a slogged fest to get through. Don't get me wrong. I love Zelie, Tzain and Amari as characters but didn't want to slogged thought 500 plus pages to find out about their journey.. This is why I feel like introductory books to a series shouldn't be more than 300 to 400 pages long but 450 is good number but pushing it. Especially if you know the series is going to be at least 3 books or more. I feel like you should be able to set up your characters, story ,plot, world building and get a fan base to your books in at least 400 pages. Then in the next books you can flex and show you can write a 500 page book with all the world building and character development you want.
I just don't understand the hype for this one.
So if anyone wants my copy of it, message me and see what we can do.
I may sell it for 20 bucks. lol
You can also read it on my blog!!
I don't think I'm going back to this at all.
Life is too short to try and read a book that you been struggling to read since March. Actually before then cause I had the arc of it and struggle with it then.
It's good concept but instead of feeling like a story with the basics being the Orisha/ Yoruba mythology ( which I want to know more about myself), it feel like if Avatar the Last Airbender/ The Legend of Korra was based in African culture instead of Asian,Nomadic and Island/Pacfic culture.
I mean look at this.
Zelie: Katara mixed in with a little Anag since she can wield a staff like he did.
Tzain: Sokka
Amari: Yue mixed in with Souki
Inan: Zuko reject
Amari/Inan Dad: Ozai
All it didn't have was an Azula which probably would have made it more interesting..
Naw!
The fact magic was whipped out and along with the people who had magic was almost like what the Fire Nation did to the Air Nomads.Also the way they were oppressing the ones who probably could do magic if it wasn't gone is how the Fire Nation treated the rest of the nations that didn't destroy. Oh Don't get me started with the fact Zelie's mom was killed. Like that wasn't one of the main story lines for Katara's development in the series,dealing with her hatred of the Fire Nation cause of mom got killed.You can also say the scroll Zelie had was almost the same as Katara's water bending scroll. Also the part I dnfed is where the kids had to find an island that disappears before a solstice in order to bring magic back.. Yeah they totally wasn't an island in Avatar that was on back of a sea lion turtle that disappeared for thousands of years. It totally wasn't two solstices in the series that some very important events happen on them..
Also it seem like I have dodge the bullet by dnfing this early cause it supposed to be a unnecessary romance between Zelie and Zuko reject...
Yeah ..
You know I'm all for authors having books and series that influences them a lot and decide to put little hints of that in work and incorporated it into their own original thing, but only hints and not almost the whole plot of that work.
I have tried hard to like this book. I bought this book for birthday and even got the audiobook which still didn't help even with Bahni Turpin narrating it. She is the reason why I went back to The Hate U give and end finishing and living that book.
The pacing of this book was the killer cause for the almost 160 pages I read,nothing really fucking happens. It really was a slogged fest to get through. Don't get me wrong. I love Zelie, Tzain and Amari as characters but didn't want to slogged thought 500 plus pages to find out about their journey.. This is why I feel like introductory books to a series shouldn't be more than 300 to 400 pages long but 450 is good number but pushing it. Especially if you know the series is going to be at least 3 books or more. I feel like you should be able to set up your characters, story ,plot, world building and get a fan base to your books in at least 400 pages. Then in the next books you can flex and show you can write a 500 page book with all the world building and character development you want.
I just don't understand the hype for this one.
So if anyone wants my copy of it, message me and see what we can do.
I may sell it for 20 bucks. lol