This book.
Thiiiiiiiiissssssssss book!!
I absolutely LOVED it!
This book is set in a high fantasy setting where our main character, Arrah, is the daughter of two powerful witch doctors yet unfortunately she never inherited their powers but there is dark ritual for Arrah to obtain magic but for magic she must trade years of her life.
Someone is also taking children and when Arrah’s friend is taken, she trades years of her life for magic and the story going on from there.
I feel like I’ll repeat myself if I keep talking about what I like about it so I’m going to start off with what I didn’t like, which was the pacing of the book. The first quarter of the book was hard to get into because it was slow and so much information and names to remember that it was hard to pay attention long enough to read but once after I read past the 100 page mark, the plot started going. Also there’s pacing issues on various places in the book but not bad enough to bother me much.
The romance in the book had the trope where they were best friends for almost all their life and they both have feelings for each other and neither of them has said anything yet. If that makes sense. The romance wasn’t too bad. I wish Rudjet, the love interest, had a bit more personality but he wasn’t bland at all and I like how he was good towards Arrah.
You guys, this book had some hoodrat drama that makes me soooo excited for the next book. It’s the type you gotta read and find out yourself or it’ll be major spoilers but the drama in this book was so entertaining and there may be a love triangle hints for the next book. I personally don’t mind love triangles because they’re pretty entertaining but I have a feeling they’ll be something going on.
And that ENDING!?! It was the type of ending where is could be considered a cliffhanger but also opened ended because there’s so much unanswered questions, there’s gotta be a book 2 because whew chileee the SUSPENSE!
I also heard that Kingdom of Souls is already going to be a movie. I don’t understand how books that JUST come out are already being adapted into movies, Can someone let me know in the comments? Anyways, I’m just scared people are going to label this book or any other African-inspired story as another Black Panther or Wakanda when the story line is totally different.
In conclusion I really enjoyed this book and gave this 4.5 stars but I obviously round it up to 5. I actually recommend this for fans of Daughter of Smoke and Bone and City of Bones because you see some elements from both books in Kingdom of Souls but still has it’s own original story.
Thank you for reading! 💛
-Cayla
THERE’S MAGIC IN HER BLOOD.
Explosive fantasy set in a world of magic and legend, where one girl must sacrifice her life, year by year, to gain the power necessary to fight the mother she has never been good enough for.
Perfect for fans of Sarah J Maas, Tomi Adeyemi and Black Panther
THERE’S MAGIC IN HER BLOOD.
Arrah is a young woman from a long line of the most powerful witch doctors in the land. But she fails at magic, fails to call upon the ancestors and can’t even cast the simplest curse.
Shame and disappointment dog her.
When strange premonitions befall her family and children in the kingdom begin to disappear, Arrah undergoes the dangerous and scorned process of selling years of her life for magic. This borrowed power reveals a nightmarish betrayal and a danger beyond what she could have imagined. Now Arrah must find a way to master magic, or at least buy it, in order to save herself and everything she holds dear.
An explosive fantasy set in a world of magic and legend with a twist you will never see coming.
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