Eleven years ago, King Saran ordered the mass murder of the maji of Orisha in retaliation for an uprising against him, leaving behind orphaned diviners — white-haired children with magical potential that will never be reached (well, not if King Saran has anything to say about it). Now, 17-year-old diviner Zelie and Saran's daughter Amari have been thrown together in a quest to bring magic back to Orisha, with the king's ruthless guards hot on their tail.
For a long book, this reads incredibly quickly, with plenty of page-turning action. That said, the characters are nothing to sneeze at. I particularly like the internal conflicts of Amari's brother Inan, who is also captain of King Saran's guards. I don't know that this is quite the "next Harry Potter" as it's been called, but it is a good YA fantasy, and I look forward to seeing what Adeyemi has planned for the rest of the series.
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