Children of Anguish and Anarchy
Featuring gorgeous spray-painted and stenciled edges, dazzling metallic foil designs on the jacket and case, and an exclusive endpaper map that reveals new unexplored territories, Tomi Adeyemi’s #1 New York Times-bestselling Legacy of Orïsha series comes to an earth-shaking conclusion.
New allies rise.
The Blood Moon nears.
Zélie faces her final enemy.
The king who hunts her heart.
When Zelie seized the royal palace that fateful night, she thought her battles had come to an end. The monarchy had finally fallen. The maji had risen again. Zélie never expected to find herself locked in a cage and trapped on a foreign ship. Now warriors with iron skulls traffic her and her people across the seas, far from their homeland.
Then everything changes when Zélie meets King Baldyr, her true captor, the ruler of the Skulls, and the man who has ravaged entire civilizations to find her. Baldyr’s quest to harness Zélie’s strength sends Zélie, Amari, and Tzain searching for allies in unknown lands.
But as Baldyr closes in, catastrophe charges Orïsha’s shores. It will take everything Zélie has to face her final enemy and save her people before the Skulls annihilate them for good.
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Tomi Adeyemi
In a genre often shaped by echoes of Western mythology, Tomi Adeyemi burst onto the scene like a thunderclap, reshaping the landscape of young adult fantasy with stories that draw their strength from West African heritage, fierce resistance, and a hunger for justice.
Born and raised in the United States to Nigerian immigrant parents, Adeyemi grew up straddling two cultures—immersed in the myths and legends passed down through her family while also navigating the expectations of a modern American upbringing. It wasn’t until a pivotal trip to Brazil, where she saw African culture celebrated rather than erased, that she realized the power of the stories she'd nearly lost. That realization would become the seed of Children of Blood and Bone, a novel that did more than land on bestseller lists—it galvanized an entire movement in YA fantasy.
Legacy of Orïsha
Magic was once the heartbeat of Orïsha—until it was hunted down, silenced, and bled from the land. Now, whispers of its return stir not in ivory towers or ancient scrolls, but in the defiant breath of a young girl who refuses to let her people be forgotten.
The Legacy of Orïsha series cracks open the fantasy genre and fills it with fire. Rooted in West African myth and carried on the shoulders of unforgettable characters, it weaves a world where the cost of justice is steep, and the path to liberation is tangled with betrayal, grief, and impossible choices. Through the eyes of Zélie—fierce, flawed, and full of fury—we navigate a kingdom where magic isn’t just power, it’s identity. And reclaiming it means revolution.
Legacy of Orïsha consists of three books — considered a complete series. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
