{"id":3847,"date":"2018-02-27T18:46:45","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T13:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fableandi.com\/?p=3847"},"modified":"2020-02-22T12:54:51","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T07:24:51","slug":"children-blood-bone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebooksatchel.com\/children-blood-bone\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood and Bone is about Bringing Magic Back"},"content":{"rendered":"
With the help of a run away princess, Zelie must find a way to bring back magic into Orisha and out run the prince who wants to eradicate magic for good.<\/p>\n
Children of Blood and Bone<\/em> is the first book in the series The Legacy of Orisha,<\/em>\u00a0a fantasy set in the fictional land of Orisha. The novel is fast and action packed from the beginning to the end. It is told in the alternating POVs of Zelie, a young diviner;\u00a0Amari, the princess of Orisha and Inan, the prince of Orisha. The diviners are maji without the magic. The maji were selected by gods and had their magical abilities surface at the age of thirteen.\u00a0But a raid by the evil King Saran drives magic away from the lands. Zelie loses her mom, who was a maji, in this madness of selective racial destruction.<\/p>\n Zelie is now a diviner and practises daily the art of fighting with staff at Mama Agba\u2019s place.\u00a0 When she sees there is a chance that magic might be back in Orisha, she embarks on a mission to collect a few magical artefacts and complete a ritual before the solstice. Meanwhile, the king has sent his men and the prince (who nurses a deep and dark secret) to capture Zelie and her team before they can do harm and bring magic back.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The plot has many darker themes, the prominent one being that of racial discrimination. Remember muggles being looked down by \u2018pure blood loving\u2019 wizards in the Harry Potter series? The opposite happens in Orisha – the people with magical skills are not accepted. King Saran wipes out those who have magic in them and it goes down in history as the \u2018Raid.\u2019<\/p>\n I couldn\u2019t help drawing parallels between the characters in Orisha and our present world. The downtrodden are taken advantage of and forced into poverty while the powerful men make decisions and gamble with the lives of the country men. There is a recurring theme of indecisiveness in the minds of the main characters on the concept of right and wrong. Sometimes what we have believed to be right all our lives might be wrong and sometimes our allegiance and trust might be reserved for the wrong person.<\/p>\nTheme<\/h3>\n