Children of Anguish and Anarchy
core novel 2024 Legacy of Orisha
Record
| First published | 2024 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.41 (20,460 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781250171016 |
Synopsis
Children of Anguish and Anarchy is the third and final novel in the Legacy of Orisha trilogy, continuing directly from events in Children of Virtue and Vengeance. Following a magical explosion in Lagos that interrupted the kingdom's civil war, Zelie Adebola, Princess Amari, Prince Inan, and Zelie's brother Tzain find themselves captured by the Skulls, a mercenary force serving the tyrannical foreign ruler King Baldyr of the Baldeirik tribes. Baldyr targets Zelie specifically because she carries rare, powerful blood magic, and he restrains her abilities with a magical device fused to her body so he can turn her strength toward his campaign of conquest.
Where it sits
- Universe: Legacy of Orisha
- Series: Legacy of Orisha core; position 3 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Tomi Adeyemi
Notes
- From the series record (Legacy of Orisha): New author record. A completed West African/Yoruba-mythology-inspired YA trilogy, one of the best-selling YA fantasy debuts of its decade. Children of Blood and Bone's audiobook won the 2019 Audie Award for Best Audiobook (Fantasy) and was a Kirkus Prize finalist -- both are adaptation/format-specific honors for the audio edition and the book's own critical reception, not a genre fiction award for the prose text itself, so noted here in prose rather than registered as an `AWD-####` row; no Hugo/Nebula/World Fantasy/Locus/British Fantasy recognition was found for any of the 3 books.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series Legacy of Orisha: position 3 of 3: previous Children of Virtue and Vengeance (2019)
Sources
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