#147 in Young adult
Children of Blood and Bone
- 560
- Pages
- about 10 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Children of Blood and Bone” is a vivid, fast-starting fantasy about a girl fighting to bring magic back to a kingdom that crushed her people. Readers who take to it praise scenes that are easy to picture and heroines who change convincingly along the way. Some see familiar pieces of bigger sagas fitted together and never quite connect. At 560 pages, it is a debut that opens a series rather than closing a story.
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About the book
Children of Blood and Bone is a 2018 young adult romantic fantasy novel by Nigerian-American novelist Tomi Adeyemi. The book, Adeyemi's debut novel and the first in her Legacy of Orïsha trilogy, follows heroine Zélie Adebola as she attempts to restore magic to the kingdom of Orïsha, following the ruling class kosidáns' brutal suppression of the class of magic practitioners Zélie belongs to, the maji.
Reading order · Legacy of Orïsha
Full order & progress →- Children of Blood and BoneThis book
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.0 across 610 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 81% of the weight and the score stays at 8.0 — the Young adult average of 7.8 barely moves it.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.0 | 25 | 4% |
| Hardcover | 8.0 | 585 | 96% |
Frequently asked
What age is Children of Blood and Bone for?
Children of Blood and Bone sits on the Young adult shelf in the sources we use, which by convention means roughly ages 13 and up. This is a guide from the book’s category, not a publisher’s age rating. It has 560 pages — longer than 55% of the ranked books in Young adult.
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