I enjoyed the two main characters but there were certain times where each perspective hit a slow patch and I wanted it to speed up a little. I devoured the first half of this book literally in one sitting, I didn’t wanna put it down, I was so intrigued and invested in the story from the get go. Though miles apart, both girls share an indestructible bond: they share the same blood, the same face and possess the same unspoken magic, thought to have vanished years ago with the lost gods.

They had no idea that the other existed but they could feel the innate magic inside them that binds them together. About half of this book was world building, I didn’t feel overwhelmed by that at all but sometimes I did want the pace of the plot to pick up slightly.He's just some powerful asshole who fits the role of the necessary antagonist in a sort of remote way. Although both twins had my heart, I really liked Naala despite her being very impulsive in comparison to her twin Sinai. She doesn't shy away from describing the colours and tones of the skin, nor the way that hair textures and practices differ, and I loved to see this representation as a strong stable of the whole book. We get reports on what people do on his behalf, we're told how "scary" he is, but we're not actually shown him doing all of these horrible things.

Being Igbo, this book was profound; seeing our culture written so beautifully in text in the genre of fantasy meant everything to me for black representation in books. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The only thing that frustrates me is that they didn’t meet until the end of the book, I was dying for them to meet already.

Overall, Daughters of Nri is a novel inspired by medieval Nigeria that is all parts dramatic and wondrous. When her village is attacked in a heartbreaking scene, she’s forced to travel with a new group of people through the forest.

The way she handled that entire situation left me speechless because I know for a fact, I would have been so mad. You don't create an Infinity Gauntlet-style weapon and make acquiring it a Plan B or something that the characters stumble into in the middle of the book.We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

The writing was immaculate, the world building was really gradual and well paced, the magic system was also really gentle and easy to understand. She is a tough older lady character who has more knowledge than she first lets on and I think she came into her own as the book progressed.The magic of this world is so subtle and breathtakingly beautiful that magic almost feels like the wrong word to use because of the images it conjures up.