Torn...
Onyesonwu is a child of rape (outcast) with magical powers that must go on an epic quest to stop the genocide of her mother's people. This book has some very touching moments as well as some very meaningful ones. However, this book contains TONS of triggers such as vividly describing rape and mutilation scenes as well as other tender subject matters. I personally was not prepared for these as I try not to read reviews of books before I pick them up from my personal library. I fear that it taints the review that I end up writing and I want to have my thoughts clear and my own. I found the story to be a little cliche even though the setting was amazing and fresh. Set in post-apocalyptic Africa as sort of a cyberpunk world, this was definitely something new and surprising to me and something that I really enjoyed about the book. But the story itself is your typical "chosen one", "prophecy" and "epic quest" story. The ending absolutely fell flat for me. I felt, as the reader, that I received no justice by the ending of this book for all the atrocities that I had lived through while reading it. It almost made me feel like I was wronged by this book. I don't want to give too much detail away, suffice it to say that for a 400+ page book that deals with such serious subject matters that can be applied to the real world, the ending could have been written better. In closing I will say that I appreciate what the author of this book was trying to do and the things that she was trying to convey. I appreciate this book for the simple fantasy novel that it is but for the real world issues that this book touches on quite heavily, I felt it there just should have been more to it.
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EJ Frost
5/31/2020 12:22:09 am
Thank you for sharing such a thoughtful and honest review. I too feel the ending has to justify the emotional trauma a graphic book puts the reader through. I appreciate the warning.💕
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