Children of Anguish and Anarchy by Tomi Adeyemi

The war is won. Survival is still needed.

Zelie has fought with every ounce of her strength to overthrow the monarchy and free her people. But now foreigners have stolen her, Inan, Tzain, and Amari from their homeland. They must find a way off the ship, fight the invaders, and try to make it back home.

Tomi Adeyemi is the modern Tolstoy! She writes about things that need to be addressed and I am so glad she incorporated slavery ships in her latest novel. I started sobbing for the suffering of those Orishans and thought back to how barbaric those ships were. The world has needed an author like her for some time. Her novel was wonderful, hooks, chapter lengths, and descriptions kept me turning to the last page. However, at times the sentences were short and choppy almost like they weren't quite finished. She has even said that she wished she had more time on it. I prefer quality over quantity. It was indeed not as good as her first novel in the sense that she wasn't allowed enough time to perfect it. The ending left me a little confused. When the epic battle between Zelie and King Baldyr happened, I was left wanting more paragraphs to confirm he was indeed dead. And the transition between the epilogue and last chapter were abrupt.