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book, King Saran figured out how to switch off magic and ordered the slaying of many defenseless divîners, including the mother of Zélie
Adebola. Since that time, divîners have been severely oppressed. After visiting the capital city, Lagos, to make enough money to pay off an increased tax on divîners, Zélie and her brother Tzain help a noble girl flee the clutches of local guards. This girl, who turns out to be Princess Amari, the daughter of King Saran, has stolen a magical scroll that can restore the magical powers of any divîner who touches it. The reason Amari stole the scroll was that after her servant and best friend, Binta, touched it and her powers came to life, King Saran killed her. Like her mother before her, Zélie is able to awaken her magical powers as a Reaper, giving her the power to command undead spirits.
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way that power can be bound up with brutality. Saran feels that the only way to maintain control both personally as well as for his race is through oppression and enslavement of the minority. For Saran it is not enough to control the maji; he must also extinguish their hope and threaten genocide. Throughout the book, the maji respond to this oppression in different ways. Zélie, who has seen her mother killed, her father beaten, and her own freedom jeopardized at the hands of guards, or the police, offers one reaction with her determination to resist and overthrow the social order, offering a model for real life black activists. Inan, as both a maji and kosidán, has a different reaction, instead, wanting to see the two peoples united. The magic of the maji also serves as a connection between humanity and the gods.
335:: "I was in a gift shop there and the African gods and goddesses were depicted in such a beautiful and sacred way ... it really made me think about all the beautiful images we never see featuring black people". Her desire to write an epic tale with roots in West Africa was matched by her desire to respond to police brutality. The spate of police violence against black Americans had a large impact on Adeyemi; she wanted to escape the helplessness and fear she felt: "What is the point if my life ends at the barrel of a police officer's gun?" In the author's note at the end of the novel, Adeyemi makes a call to emotion, telling the reader that "if cried for Zulaikha ... cry for innocent children like
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who are holding Zélie and Tzain's father. Feeling helpless, Zélie agrees to give the artifacts up in exchange for her and her father's life. As Zélie leaves the temple, Saran orders her father killed anyway. The spirit and blood magic of her father reawakens Zélie's magic and she uses her restored powers to attack the kosidán. Inan uses her rage and magic to his advantage, as he provokes an attack that destroys the scroll. Without thinking, Inan then uses his magic to stop an attack on Saran. Saran then attempts to kill his son for being a secret maji, but is instead killed by a furious Amari.
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perform a ritual to renew the connection between the maji and the gods, who are the source of all magic. He performs a rite on ZĂ©lie so she will be able to complete the connection, and then he sacrifices himself to hold off the guards as the trio escapes. Unknown to anyone else, contact with the scroll has given Prince Inan magical abilities to detect the feelings and memories of others. Kaea catches Inan using these abilities to track the trio and Inan accidentally uses his magic to kill her.
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destroy the camp, also capturing Zélie. During the fight between the guards and the divîners, Kwame, a maji able to control fire, uses his magic to self-immolate and takes out guards with him. This display of powerful magic scares Inan, who changes his mind again and wants to repress his magic, knowing that his father would kill him should he ever reveal that he is a maji. Saran tortures Zélie to learn how to destroy the scroll, removing her magical ability in the process.
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Adeyemi there was no option but for the book to be successful and perfect, given the pressures placed on black creators: "I'm not going to put ZĂ©lie's face on the cover of this book and give you anything less than an incredible story, because for the kids who have never seen themselves, they need to see that, and they need to know that they are beautiful and that they are powerful". She wrote the book while bingeing the television show
553:(4.0 out of 5) based on critic reviews with a critical summary saying, "Adeyemi embraces all the tropes of the adventure fantasy quest and bildungsroman--think magic, tyranny, rebellion, brutality, and evolving relationships--and her enchanting novel falls within a tradition going back to Samuel Delany and Octavia Butler in its explorations of social power and non-Western traditions". According to
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follows, Tzain and Amari are captured in the forest by an unknown group. Inan agrees to help Zélie rescue their siblings. During the rescue, they learn that the group is really a settlement of divîners, some of whom have had their powers reawakened when they were exposed to the scroll before it was taken by the King's forces.
315:: Hailing from the distant island of Wakanda, is a skilled naval commander. She joins forces with ZĂ©lie and her allies, bringing with her a powerful fleet and a deep understanding of the sea's secrets. Kaea's strategic brilliance and unwavering determination make her a valuable asset in the fight against King Saran.
303:, also from Ilorin: Amari's enigmatic brother. He is a skilled swordsman and a charismatic leader. However, he harbors a secret that weighs heavily on his mind. As ZĂ©lie's quest unfolds, Inan's conflicted loyalties force him to make difficult choices that will shape the fate of both his kingdom and the revolution.
287:: ZĂ©lie's older brother, is a skilled warrior and a loyal protector. He shares his sister's passion for justice and stands by her side throughout their adventure. Tzain's unwavering belief in ZĂ©lie's abilities and his willingness to sacrifice everything for her cause make him a formidable force in their quest.
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The conflict between the kosidán and maji, with the kosidán possessing lighter skin and having enslaved segments of the maji, raises issues of race and class and how these can be used to divide a nation. Class ultimately becomes a stand-in for race in the book. The story does not shy from showing the
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Pursued by a contingent of guards led by Amari's brother Prince Inan and
Admiral Kaea, the three travel to the temple of the maji, Chândomblé. The temple's remaining priest, Lekan, tells them that they must use the scroll, the bone dagger (which he gives them), and an artifact called the sunstone to
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The novel takes place in the fictional country of OrĂŻsha, which is presumably somewhere in precolonial
Yorubaland, inhabited by two distinct people: divîners, who have the capability to become magical maji and are marked by white hair, and non-magical kosidán. Eleven years prior to the events of the
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Adeyemi worked as a creative writing coach while she wrote the novel. While her first draft had major sections of the story omitted, the second draft, which she was ultimately forced to complete in a month to enter it in a writing competition, was where she felt it needed to meet her expectations.
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Tzain and Amari assemble a team and break ZĂ©lie out of prison. ZĂ©lie does not reveal her power loss and they hire a group of mercenaries, commanded by Roen, who allow them to infiltrate the secret island and temple to perform the ceremony. Once inside, however, they are ambushed by Saran and Inan,
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The trio finds themselves in Ibeji, where the sunstone is used as a prize for deadly aquatic arena games. They agree to compete and ZĂ©lie uses her powers to win the sunstone. Now in possession of all three artifacts, the group continues on their way until Inan catches up to them. In the chaos that
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Upon hearing of the group's mission, the divîners decide to hold a festival for the Sky Mother where the remaining divîners will be able to touch the scroll. By this time, Inan, who has developed romantic feelings for Zélie, has agreed to help restore magic. However, Saran and his guards find and
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Unable to repair the scroll, ZĂ©lie uses blood magic and an incantation of her own devising to complete the ritual, which apparently kills her in the process. ZĂ©lie is then able to speak with her mother, speaking on behalf of the gods in the afterlife, who praises her and sends her back. The book
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in the background. She became so exhausted through the non-stop work of the writing that she became disoriented, even at one point thinking she was a lawyer. The entire editing process took eighteen months to complete, going through 45 drafts.
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Adeyemi entered Pitch Wars, a competition that matches emerging writers with mentor editors and authors to revise their work before submitting them to literary agents. She came to be represented by
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for best audiobook and was a runner-up for best Young Adult audiobook. "There's something magical about the timbre of Turpin's voice that's perfectly tuned to the fantastical nature of this novel. I felt transported into the world of
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had acquired the rights for a guaranteed exclusive theatrical release, with Temple Hill
Entertainment producing alongside Sunswept Entertainment; Adeyemi will write the script and serve as executive producer. According to
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for young adult books, the novel received mostly positive reviews. Critics wrote about its examination of oppression, racism, and slavery, with the kosidán and maji serving as stand-ins for real-world groups. It is also a
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praised, "the hate-to-love romance comes with high stakes, and the relationship is realistically and passionately realised. All of it is packaged in a tightly plotted, action-packed adventure." Less positively,
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praised the novel, giving it four out of four stars: "While Tomi
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