Akata Witch (The Nsibidi Scripts)
ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST FANTASY AND YOUNG ADULT BOOKS OF ALL TIME • A young Nigerian girl discovers her extraordinary destiny in this heart-pounding tale of finding one’s place in the world.
“Jam-packed with mythological wonders.”—Rick Riordan, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series
“There’s more imagination on a page of Nnedi Okorafor’s work than in whole volumes of ordinary fantasy epics.”—Ursula K. Le Guin, award-winning author of A Wizard of Earthsea
Sunny Nwazue lives in Nigeria, but she was born in New York City. Her features are West African, but she’s albino. She’s a terrific athlete, but can’t go out into the sun to play soccer. There seems to be no place where she fits in. And then she discovers something amazing—she is a “free agent” with latent magical power. And she has a lot of catching up to do.
Soon she’s part of a quartet of magic students, studying the invisible and visible, learning to change reality. But just as she’s finding her footing, Sunny and her friends are asked by the magical authorities to help track down a career criminal who knows magic too. Will their training be enough to help them against a threat whose powers greatly outnumber theirs?
“Jam-packed with mythological wonders.”—Rick Riordan, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series
“There’s more imagination on a page of Nnedi Okorafor’s work than in whole volumes of ordinary fantasy epics.”—Ursula K. Le Guin, award-winning author of A Wizard of Earthsea
Sunny Nwazue lives in Nigeria, but she was born in New York City. Her features are West African, but she’s albino. She’s a terrific athlete, but can’t go out into the sun to play soccer. There seems to be no place where she fits in. And then she discovers something amazing—she is a “free agent” with latent magical power. And she has a lot of catching up to do.
Soon she’s part of a quartet of magic students, studying the invisible and visible, learning to change reality. But just as she’s finding her footing, Sunny and her friends are asked by the magical authorities to help track down a career criminal who knows magic too. Will their training be enough to help them against a threat whose powers greatly outnumber theirs?
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Magical and Brilliant | Review of ‘Akata Witch’ (Akata Witch #1)
A dangerous fantastical novel not only about finding one's self in a world hidden from your eyes but also about finding acceptance in everything that makes someone unique[...]
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A dangerous fantastical novel not only about finding one's self in a world hidden from your eyes but also about finding acceptance in everything that makes someone unique[...]
Read more of this post at Cyn's Workshop
An interesting book that I think needed a little more editing. There were lots of really great elements that I didn't think tied together to make a great novel. A good novel, yes, and one that is fun and necessary and interesting. It just lacked that big "oomph" for me. I'm still going to recommend it. I'd be interested to read other books in other genres by this author.
To simply say that this book is a Nigerian Harry Potter would be to do it a disservice. Sunny is a complex character in her own right with troubles vastly different than HP. An albino who tries to get through each day without being bullied, Sunny's life drastically changes when she befriend Orlu and Chichi, who help plunge her into the world of the Leopard People, where your worst trait becomes your best asset. Unputdownable.
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