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mollylazer 's review for:
Children of Virtue and Vengeance
by Tomi Adeyemi
I found this to be a relatively quick, enjoyable read. The different uses of magic were interesting to read about, especially the newly-developing powers and uses of them that did not appear in the first book. However, this was very much a middle piece, so it doesn't stand on its own but rather as a bridge between the first volume and whatever comes next.
My biggest complaint about the first book (and I didn't have many) was that I did not care for the romance between Zelie and Inan because it was so expected. (I also didn't really care for the romance between Amari and Tzain because she was SO CLEARLY IN LOVE WITH BINTA, which was never really addressed in the way I would have liked to have seen it addressed. Anyway...) I was surprised and pleased at the end of the first book when Inan was killed, so I was sorely disappointed when it turned out he was just fine in this book. Love triangles are not something I am interested in reading about at this point, so the Roen/Zelie/Inan triangle was a negative for me in this volume. And, once again, Inan is not dead at the end.
The ending of the book also came out of nowhere. I found myself wishing that I had some idea of what was going on other than "someone did something and now we are somewhere." Cliffhangers are fine, but this one was too vague for me.
My biggest complaint about the first book (and I didn't have many) was that I did not care for the romance between Zelie and Inan because it was so expected. (I also didn't really care for the romance between Amari and Tzain because she was SO CLEARLY IN LOVE WITH BINTA, which was never really addressed in the way I would have liked to have seen it addressed. Anyway...) I was surprised and pleased at the end of the first book when Inan was killed, so I was sorely disappointed when it turned out he was just fine in this book. Love triangles are not something I am interested in reading about at this point, so the Roen/Zelie/Inan triangle was a negative for me in this volume. And, once again, Inan is not dead at the end.
The ending of the book also came out of nowhere. I found myself wishing that I had some idea of what was going on other than "someone did something and now we are somewhere." Cliffhangers are fine, but this one was too vague for me.