Rating: 4/5 stars

Category: YA, Romance, Action, Fantasy

Series: Legacy of Orisha trilogy (book 3)

Publisher: Macmillan Children’s Books

Publication date: 25 June 2024

Pages: 368

Trigger: Suicide Ideation

SYNOPSIS

New allies rise.
The Blood Moon nears.
Zélie faces her final enemy.
The king who hunts her heart.

When Zelie seized the royal palace that fateful night, she thought her battles had come to an end. The monarchy had finally fallen. The maji had risen again. Zélie never expected to find herself locked in a cage and trapped on a foreign ship. Now warriors with iron skulls traffic her and her people across the seas, far from their homeland.

Then everything changes when Zélie meets King Baldyr, her true captor, the ruler of the Skulls, and the man who has ravaged entire civilizations to find her. Baldyr’s quest to harness Zélie’s strength sends Zélie, Amari, and Tzain searching for allies in unknown lands.

But as Baldyr closes in, catastrophe charges Orïsha’s shores. It will take everything Zélie has to face her final enemy and save her people before the Skulls annihilate them for good.

Review

What happens when you read the last book of a trilogy without reading the first two books? Chaos and confusion that’s what.

I loved the summary of the last book at the beginning of this book because it brought me up to speed on the other 2 books that I hadn’t read, so this book can be read as a standalone because of that.

After the first 100 pages, things start to make sense if you haven’t read the first three books but if you did – congratulations, you are more sensible about your reading than I was.

The book is split into parts and each chapter is from a main character’s POV. There was no world building and that makes sense as this is the last book in the trilogy. The plot is character driven and the growth of Zelie seemed to be very fast in this book but it has probably been accumulating throughout the trilogy.

I love to see the success of a Nigerian author. The last book in this trilogy was fantastic and I can’t wait to see the translation to screen.  

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