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By Jenna · 15 posts · 120 views
last updated Mar 05, 2019 11:00AM
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Reread on audio. Fabulous.
This is an excellent fantasy novel. It is set in a fantasy version of West Africa, a land called Orisha, where clans of magic users called maji used to connect to their gods and speak incantations in the Yoruba language in order to do various forms of magic, depending on their clan connection. But ten years ago, the king had the connection to magic severed, and all the adult maji killed, leaving their children, called "diviners," (visibly different from others by their white hair, but without an
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Waited for this on hold for many weeks. I was expecting to be more blown away by this story than I was. The characters and world-building are good, but it felt too long to me. I'm not dying for the next installment, but I probably would watch the movie. 3 1/2 stars.
This is being knocked off of my top 20 YA novels of 2018 by Jane Sinner, on December 11th. I hear that there's been controversy about the author accusing Nora Roberts of plagiarism (even though we're just talking about a partial title ...more
This is being knocked off of my top 20 YA novels of 2018 by Jane Sinner, on December 11th. I hear that there's been controversy about the author accusing Nora Roberts of plagiarism (even though we're just talking about a partial title ...more
Many moments of searing YA truth and insight, and many moments of YA banality. The great moments were so good that I can’t help feel the YA cliche plot lines/chapters could have been elevated to the same level. Still, a great read whose central vision taps into the old to elevate ‘new’ (or not mainstream) ways of humanizing racial violence, trauma, and the struggle for the right to exist. And, you know, MAGIC! Looking fwd to Ms. Adeyemi’s next book.
I wanted to love this but I'm finding it a slog - some interesting ideas, and I love that it's based in African lore for a change rather than European, but it has that underbaked feeling of a freshman effort. I just don't find the characters fully credible or the descriptions and dialogue absorbing. I'm returning it to the library to fill holds for (I hope) more enthusiastic readers and will read the second half another time.
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Great audio narration, and a powerful story.
This book destroyed me...ups and downs abound.
Jul 20, 2017
Liz
marked it as to-read
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Lea
marked it as books-in-the-pile
Jan 01, 2018
Mark
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Dana Berglund
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J.j.
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Tiff
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Mar 11, 2018
Dan
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Apr 05, 2018
Kris Springer
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Apr 19, 2018
Celeste
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May 27, 2018
Babywitch
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