Children of Anguish and Anarchy
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4.4 • 36 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award winner Cynthia Erivo narrates Tomi Adeyemi’s long-awaited conclusion to the #1 New York Times bestselling Legacy of Orïsha series.
New allies rise.
The Blood Moon nears.
Zélie faces her final enemy.
The king who hunts her heart.
When Zélie 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.
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The Complete Legacy of Orïsha Series:
Children of Blood and Bone (Book 1)
Children of Virtue and Vengeance (Book 2)
Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Book 3)
A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt & Company.
Customer Reviews
Overall great work
I miss Bahni Turpin’s narration, she was just phenomenal with the first two books. Cynthia Erivo did a great job with this though.
As usual, Tomi took my imagination on an incredible magical journey, introducing great characters and enchanting lands. I absolutely love the whirlwind of intense emotions I felt.
However, there were a lot of missing pieces. It was hard to see Zelie still suffering after everything. I expected to read about the monarchy and the maji making peace on their land. Orisha was hardly the setting for this book. Yeaaa…there was some sort of resolution but it seems weak. What happened to Roen?! Who betrayed them? What happened to the moonstone connection they had at the end of book 2?! The duration of travel along the seas seems shorter and shorter by the end of this book, even with magic.
The end left more uncertainty than closure. Overall, it is still worth the read.
Not the ending this series needed
This was not really the ending I would have liked to have seen for the series. It felt like the focus was pulled so far away from Orisha and everything that was built upon in the first two books. I can understand the premise of why she went this route, but too much time was spent in other places. I admire how well the character’s stories remained to hold emotional ties to you, and it had me even crying a few times. But some important characters just seemed to have disappeared and no closure as to where they went or what happened was offered. Overall a great series, but I was not pleased with the closing of the series as this book sometimes felt random and rushed to end.
A long awaited journey
This trilogy is the type of reading I’ve been waiting for a long time. It’s the type of reading that takes you to that place and want to be those characters.