Children of Virtue and Vengeance (Legacy of Orisha, 2)

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Zélie spends most of the sequel understandably grieving over the people she's lost. Because of certain events that happened in the previous installment, she has developed major trust and anger issues, which occasionally prevent her from making sound and logical decisions. I will admit that she gets pretty unlikable throughout the majority of the story. However, among all the main characters, I think Zélie has the most reason to not be her best self. Nonetheless, her inability to make rational decisions definitely means she isn't ready to lead a group, much less an entire kingdom. I hang my head, wishing I had an answer. With the kingdom in chaos, getting more oil could take weeks. Between the riots and food shortages, it’s hard enough to secure a measly bag of rice.

I didn't watch GoT's Season Eight, but I enjoyed the fireworks that occurred after the internet suffered a meltdown when the penultimate and ultimate episodes aired. Adeyemi finished writing "Children of Virtue and Vengeance" in September 2019, a full three months after Daenerys Targaryen became a mad dictator, genocidal asshole, and murder victim. (RIP Daenerys, May 2019.) I have no doubt that Adeyemi enjoyed that plot twist, and drew inspiration from GoT in penning her sequel. When everything blows up in this book, guess who gets an existential crisis? All of them characters. I do hope this book has the middle book syndrome because if not, then we’re about to have a problem. The plot was stagnant and redundant. Nothing really happens and the inner conflicts between the main characters added nothing to the story. It is also riddled with annoying contradictions. The cover depicts Zélie as this fierce warrior goddess and she talks about how she must keep fighting for Baba and her people, but she wants to give up, but she takes important positions as a leader. Zélie unravels so much in this book that her chapters were almost unreadable. Amari could have been a fierce queen, but her character development was destroyed to the point of no return. Amari and Zélie had the same argument throughout the entire novel, people kept speaking over Amari, but she never left. Inan being conflicted and having no control over his surroundings was cute in book one—not so much in the sequel. To better contextualize the events in this sequel, here's a brief rundown of how and where Children of Blood and Bone ended:This book really frustrated me. It's not just a sequel slump--which I expected--it's the choices that Adeyemi made for her characters. To keep myself from going on a full rant, I am going to list my issues. HOWEVER, Amari decides to challenge the current Elder of the Connectors Clan for the leadership role. During their battle, she uses the incantations to put her opponent in comatose. (Of course, this does not sit well with the other maji and Amari is still all "why does everyone hate me! i just want to be the queen they deserve!")

Every single character was so. so. annoying. By the end of the first book, I was an ENORMOUS Amari stan. I mean I was willing to die for her. This book just completely undid her wonderful character development and everything we love about Amari!! I cried, but not because of the emotional scenes, but because of how heartbroken I was that the author was doing this to her. For me personally, I have to be honest: I don't want to root for teenagers who promote torture, murder, and genocide. I feel like I get enough of that when I turn on the evening news and listen to what's happening in Yemen and Syria: civil war, starvation, torture, genocide, leaders with zero morals, bloodshed that leaves me feeling numb and powerless. I sure as hell don't want to read about nonstop depravity in my fiction. For a brief moment, she is supportive of Inan being the king and tries to work with him. However, things happen that cause her to lose her trust in him, so she reverts to her obsession with becoming The Best Queen Ever. She also decides that she must kill her mother and brother to secure her reign. Guilt cages me like a casket, trapping me in a tomb of my own mistakes. Maybe it’s a sign I don’t deserve to bury Baba.

Adeyemi, Tomi, Children of virtue and vengeance, ISBN 978-1-250-30990-7, OCLC 1088662976 , retrieved 2021-08-21 Nope! I’ve never seen it. I want that very clear. I assume you got to the big decision she makes. Whenever I write these things, I try to write the real world thing to compare it to. So with book one, the argument of 'Do we need magic, or not magic?' I was like, Let’s pretend this is a nation without guns. And magic is a gun. Guns can’t do the ‘nice’ kind of magic, but what is the monarchy afraid of? Children of Virtue and Vengeance , the highly anticipated second book in her Legacy of Orïsha YA fantasy trilogy, was published on December 3.

Overall, Children of Virtue and Vengeance exacerbated everything I didn't like about the first book, and cut out the elements that I loved from it. The characters, plot and relationships regressed and it hurts my heart. I was bored for most of the book and when I wasn't, I was sad. Not because of emotional moments, but because of how disappointing this sequel was. But with civil war looming on the horizon, Zélie finds herself at a breaking point: she must find a way to bring the kingdom together or watch as Orïsha tears itself apart. Plot [ ]When Zélie wakes up, she realizes that she and her companions are in chains and are on a slave ship drifting on the ocean. And the sequel ends there. In 'Children Of Virtue And Vengeance,' Magic Has Returned. Now What?". NPR.org . Retrieved 2021-08-21. She got it. Macmillan offered her a seven-figure book advance, one of the largest ever for a debut writer in her genre. Her brief experience in the corporate world helped arm her during the negotiation phase of her book and, later, when optioning the movie rights. “Being in environments that were purely capitalist gave me a lot more perspective going into publishing,” she says. “If you’re not thinking of yourself as a business, you’re always going to be a worker. True gains come from being a businessperson. They come from creating your own institutions, empires, stories, and franchises.” Good lord give me patience! There was so much potential for Inan’s character and... it all went to waste! Instead of forming his own opinion and doing the right thing he let himself be influenced by his mother and the people around him. Inan had absolutely no – I repeat – no character growth and even though he tried to find a peaceful solution for everyone and wanted to avoid a war it felt like he never really wanted to stop it. If you want to stop a war you take the risk and go through with it no matter the cost. No wonder Inan wasn’t successful; all his attempts at peace were just half-hearted and half-assed! You do things properly or not at all. Period! His stance of “I want peace but I still want to be king” was so illogical and it was no surprise the maji didn’t trust someone who held on to his crown like that. Uff... They called out to me like a lullaby, leading us away from the forest path and toward the sea. The ocean breeze ruffled the loose coils in my hair. Rays of sun spilled through the thinning leaves.