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. 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. Children of Virtue and Vengeance is the stunning sequel to Tomi Adeyemi's New York Times-bestselling debut Children of Blood and Bone, the first book in the Legacy of Orïsha trilogy. 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.

Despite Zélie's protests, Amari leads a mission to infiltrate their enemy's stronghold and kill her remaining family members. (Note: The Queen and Inan are hiding in Zélie's old village.) 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. The fact that Inan is alive. REALLY? You couldn't have come up with another way to handle the 'plot' that he carried. It's so dumb to me that he is alive.In many books that feature 'the return of magic' trope it seems to be a force for good however in this one magic's return made Orïsha more divided than ever before. Both Zélie and Amari wanted to fix what they'd done and unite the people but ended up having very different ways of going about it. In that moment he grabbed my hand; laced his bandaged fingers between mine and stared into my eyes. It was then that I knew, even if Mama was gone, we still had each other. You keep pretending all you want is to kill my brother, but I saw the way you two looked at each other at Chândomblé. I know there’s more in your heart than rage!” I point at her chest. “If you want to lie to yourself about how you really feel, fine. But if you damn us to this warpath, you’re putting innocent lives on the line!”

I exhale and wipe my tears as Tzain pulls me into a hug. Even soaking wet, his embrace is still warm. He rubs his fingers up and down my spine the way Baba used to when he wrapped me in his arms. a b "Children of Virtue and Vengeance | Tomi Adeyemi | Macmillan". US Macmillan . Retrieved 2021-08-21. I’m sorry,” she whispers, tears brimming in her silver eyes. One spills out and Roën wipes it with his thumb, his unbandaged hand lingering on the side of her face. Tomi Adeyemi wants to wrap her readers in a “dangerous but warm” blanket. Her young adult novels—the hit epic Children of Blood and Bone and its highly anticipated new sequel, Children of Virtue and Vengeance—combine escapist fantasy with clear-eyed confrontations of race and power. “I was thinking: you’re creating a Snuggie,” the Nigerian-American author tells TIME. “It’s a violent Snuggie, but create the Snuggie.” It’s okay.” My older brother Tzain stands by my side and offers me his hand. A shadow of a beard wraps around his dark brown skin; the new hair almost masks how tight his clenched jaw truly is.

Children of Virtue and Vengeance (Legacy of Orïsha, #2)". www.goodreads.com . Retrieved 2021-08-21. Inan discovers that his mother framed the maji for the murder of the royal family, which sparked the king's raids and genocidal crusade. 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. It kind of kept going with that — just that what I wanted became more magical.But subconsciously, what I wanted also became: Oh, in this, my fantasy, I can be white. Like, oh, I can have magic and I can be white; or I can, you know, shoot lightning out of my hands and I can be biracial. And it was like: It took a lot for me to become the type of person who could even write a story like Children of Blood and Bone.