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a_recovering_reader 's review for:
Children of Blood and Bone
by Tomi Adeyemi
Holy shit.
I have so many disjointed thoughts. I had trouble getting into it in the beginning (I was still processing the horrific results of the American election, so reading any book was difficult for me at the time) but once I reached that explosive ending I was IN IT. So many parallels between the monarchy/divîners and police/unarmed black people and now, with Project 2025 looming, the government/women. Tomi’s author’s note ends with a call to action “We’ve been knocked down for far too long. Now let’s rise.” And I felt that harder than I ever have. Social injustice and the inability to fix it immediately has given me chronic panic attacks for the last several years and reading about the pain, fear and sorrow of the people of Orïsha under a terrifying king was both maddening and cathartic.
And that ENDING?
Can’t wait to get the sequel at my library.
Also I think I want my next tattoo to be a lionaire.
I have so many disjointed thoughts. I had trouble getting into it in the beginning (I was still processing the horrific results of the American election, so reading any book was difficult for me at the time) but once I reached that explosive ending I was IN IT. So many parallels between the monarchy/divîners and police/unarmed black people and now, with Project 2025 looming, the government/women. Tomi’s author’s note ends with a call to action “We’ve been knocked down for far too long. Now let’s rise.” And I felt that harder than I ever have. Social injustice and the inability to fix it immediately has given me chronic panic attacks for the last several years and reading about the pain, fear and sorrow of the people of Orïsha under a terrifying king was both maddening and cathartic.
And that ENDING?
Can’t wait to get the sequel at my library.
Also I think I want my next tattoo to be a lionaire.