45. Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
The kingdom of Orisha was once filled with magic wielded by the maji people until the day the king killed many of the maji and drove magic from the land. Now many years later Zelie aided by the king’s daughter discovers that she may have the keys to restore magic to Orisha.
This book has gotten a ton of good reviews, so I suspect it just wasn’t for me somehow. I really liked it at the beginning but grew bored with all the battles and the quests on the way to restore the magic. Even the forbidden love story couldn’t really hold my interest. Obviously this book is very much of the fantasy quest genre, which is not my favorite thing so I suspect I’m the one with the issue not the book. I do appreciate how this book brings some much needed diversity to that genre though and I hope that people who like this kind of thing enjoy the book even though I was bored by it. I give it a 5 out of 10.