Good afternoon friends! I’m reading Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi, and I must say it is AMAZING! I love the descriptions of the characters, the story line, and appreciate the cultural aspects of Nigeria that are woven into the very fabric of the tale (the author is Nigerian American).

I started reading the book on the app Overdrive, a public library reading app. However, since the book was loaned to me while I was out of the country, I spent two weeks in Uganda and my wifi access was pretty spotty, I’m finishing listening to it now on audio (using the Libby app, another public library app on my iPhone).

If you enjoy the fantasy genre, and if you haven’t heard of the book or started reading it yet, please read it. I’m currently on chapter seventy-two out of a total of eighty-five chapters. This may sound long, but the writing is so good you don’t even feel it. Then again, maybe I have a high page number reading tolerance. I’ve read the first Game of Thrones book by George R. R. Martin, all seven HP (Harry Potter) books, all four Twilight Saga books, and Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games Trilogy.

If you decide to read the book Children of Blood and Bone, let me know what you think. We can even have a book discussion thread. I’d just need to figure out how to do that! Lol

About the author

Kind of Kenyan holds: a B.A. in Spanish Language, Literature, and Culture from the University of Maryland at College Park, an M.Ed in Elementary Education from Lesley University, and an M.Ed in Education of Students with Moderate Disabilities from Lesley University. When Kind of Kenyan is not in the classroom she enjoys reading (roughly a book a week), learning languages (French and Arabic), sipping afternoon tea, traveling, and getting in touch with her Kenyan heritage. Her pronouns are she/her/hers and she is fluent in Spanish. She manages the personal blog musingsofamillennial.blog and is working on her eponymous blog kindofkenyan.com set to launch on December 12, 2020.