A review by reads2cope
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

Did not finish book. Stopped at 30%.

I might come back to this, but my library hold ran out and I haven’t asked for it again yet…
I was struggling with some parts of the writing. Some scenes are so vivid, but others I was confused by. For example, at the start, how did her brother learn that her father was drowning? How is it possible they got to him while he was still at sea if he was out there for less than 10 minutes?

Then I also found dialogue (or lack-there-of) awkward. “We shimmy out of the crawl space and tear down another path, accidentally slamming into a pair of curious divîners. One drops his bottle of rum... I scoop the bottle off the ground and scan the streets for my missing ingredient. There. It’s only a few meters from the girl’s head. “Grab the torch!”… we take off running.” So, she steals his bottle of rum (dropped on the ground after being slammed into, but we’re supposed to assume it’s unbroken?) and then runs off without anything said to or by either divîner they just knocked into and then stole from? This felt very awkward to me, and distracted me from the world.