A review by karessa_proctor
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

- The magic system here was pretty cool, great world building, and the mythology was really interesting 
- I think the character development was really realistic here. In most books where someone is bad and they “turn good” it seems more simple and complete. I liked that Inan’s “growth” was really 1 step forward and 2 steps back. I felt like this was more actuate. People might see the light but ultimately it’s hard to change your ways. This decision made the characters more complex and nuanced for me. 
- I hated how fast the enemies to lovers thing happened. It was Disney level falling in love. I would have taken another 100 pages of the book just to drag that out a bit. I get that these are teenagers so sometimes it does feel that way but it took me out of the story a bit.