With Lucasfilm set to adapt her novel ‘Children Of Blood & Bone’ to the big screen, author Tomi Adeyemi has spoken about her plans for a sequel.
“I always pitched it as Black Panther with magic,” Adeyemi says. “It’s this epic young adult fantasy about a girl fighting to bring magic back to her people.”
And now there’s a sequel: Children of Virtue andVengeance. The heroine, Zélie, has succeeded in her quest to bring magic back to her people, the maji, and the land of Orïsha. But the nobility and the military now have powerful magic, too. And civil war looms.
For Zélie and her ally Amari — a runaway princess who has joined the rebellion, so to speak — the question becomes: Now what? And how will their personal traumas play out?
“I’m really mean to my characters,” Adeyemi says. “And so they have a lot to both deal with personally, and in terms of like: OK, well, who am I? What am I wrestling with? What do I want? Is what I want actually what you want? Are we actually still on the same team in this? It’s about kind of how complicated things is — especially with people that you love.”
For the full interview, take the link to NPR.
