Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zélie's Reaper mother summoned forth souls. But everything changed the night magic disappeared. Under the orders of a ruthless king, maji were killed, leaving Zélie without a mother and her people without hope.
Magic is dead—and so are the gods. That’s what people believe after the night the King killed every maji he could find, killing magic along with them, and leaving the children of the maji to be known as “maggots.” Until one day, when a magic scroll is found—and Zelie becomes the one person capable of bringing magic back. Her mother was a powerful maji killed during the Raid, and she was a young girl who witnessed the whole brutal thing. Now she has a chance—one chance only—to bring back what was believed lost forever. But to do it, she will need the help of her brother, the King’s daughter, and the gods themselves. And even that might not be enough.
This story has a ton of hype—and I usually try to avoid those books, as I tend to find that they rarely ever live up to it. This book, however, is worth the current hype and more. It is stunning in its honesty, and honest in its brutality...(to read the rest, click through to http://vampirebookclub.net/review-children-of-blood-and-bone-by-tomi-adeyemi-legacy-of-orisha-1/ )
