SuitabookChildren of Blood and Bone
Tomi Adeyemi
- Reading
- Consider checking in together around the torture and assault scenes, which are singled out as difficult content. The multiple narrators may also make it useful to pause and track whose perspective is shaping each section.
- Themes
- Power, oppression and resistance: The kingdom suppresses maji, and Zélie has a chance to bring magic back. The book takes a critical view of this.
- Opposing loyalties and feelings: Zélie’s feelings for an enemy develop amid the conflict; the novel uses three narrators with opposing loyalties. The relationship and divided perspectives are present, but their overall treatment is not established.
- Worth knowing
- Violence and loss are substantial: the story includes deaths of parents and children, torture, and a sexual assault scene.