The Seed of Cain
Book 2 in The Record Keeper series
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Publisher Description
Return to the startlingly original dystopian world of The Record Keeper in this stunning sequel. For readers of Octavia Butler, Kim Stanley Robinson, Nnedi Okorafor and Tade Thompson comes this Afrofuturist tour de force.
General Arika Cobane, beloved leader of the worker rebellion, makes a bold—but illegal—move to ensure the people’s freedom. When her scheme fails and her co-conspirator hangs for treason, Arika—overworked and overwrought—blacks out.
When she awakens, everything has changed. She’s been stripped of her rank and power and the new leader of the Kongo, Kira Swan, is a charismatic traitor bent on consigning the Kongo under the guise of peace.
Desperate, Arika reunites with Hosea Kahn and seeks treatment for her blackouts at the Compound, deep in the deadly Obi Forest. Arika is determined to regain her influence, stop Kira Swan, and continue leading the Kongo to freedom, but time is running out and she’s still unwell. Control is slipping from her fingers. When a new source of strength presents itself, an ancient authority reserved for the One destined to save the Kongo, Arika gives up everything, including Hosea Khan, to grasp the power, but—all alone, and sick and tired—can she muster the will to hold it?
Customer Reviews
Not bad but not as good as The Record Keeper
I was tremendously looking forward to this book after reading The Record Keeper and started it just after finishing the latter. Gomillion makes the narrative choice to skip ahead in time from the ending of The Record Keeper and this book is also stylistically different, focusing on some different themes and going at a slower narrative pace. Personally this book felt like a bridge book to me - a stopgap between The Record Keeper and some future third book that she is presumably planning to release. I felt like it raised a lot more questions than it answered, and when I got close to the end I kept increasingly thinking “I don’t see how this is going to be resolved by the end of the book” about various plot points and it turned out to be because they were not resolved. I’m giving this 4 stars because the writing is still excellent, but if I had the option to give 3.5 I think I would. I’m not sure I would recommend reading this until the apparent third planned book is released.