Children of Anguish and Anarchy

Legacy of Orisha, Book 3

By: Tomi Adeyemi

Narrated by: Cynthia Erivo

Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins

Publisher's summary

Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award winner Cynthia Erivo narrates Tomi Adeyemi’s long-awaited conclusion to the #1 New York Times bestselling Legacy of Orïsha series.

New allies rise.

The Blood Moon nears.

Zélie faces her final enemy.

The king who hunts her heart.

When Zélie 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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The Complete Legacy of Orïsha Series:

Children of Blood and Bone (Book 1)

Children of Virtue and Vengeance (Book 2)

Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Book 3)

A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt & Company.

©2024 Tomi Adeyemi (P)2024 Macmillan Audio

Resilience!!!

The new narrator did a great job! The story is excellent and I am truly going to miss ALL of the characters. I wish it was longer. This could easily be a great movie trilogy!!!!!

CYNTHIA!!!!

This book lived up to the hype. Tomi hasn’t disappointed. I hope the series becomes required reading in schools.

A solid ending to an amazing series

Finally, the ending and a good one. I got through this listen in less than a day (with small children). If you loved the first two books, you won’t be disappointed with the ending. I felt all of the fear, love, loss and excitement. Definitely give it a listen.

Not what I expected

It seemed as though she decided to just write a whole new story with some of the same main characters. It just seemed so disconnected from the first two books. The story itself was still good but I am not a fan of the ending in any way.

Interesting conclusion

This thing played with my emotions. I t is a “page turner.” I ended up sitting in my driveway for 1/2 hour to find out what was going to happen next!!

Great finale

I can’t even get my words together to describe her amazing this book was! The imagery made a movie in my mind and I am looking forward to the movies!

Captivating

Again, Tomi does a wonderful job pulling her readers into a world of beauty and adventure. I wish this part wasn’t the end. Looking forward to the next series Tomi has for us.

Sadly…

This book was a huge disappointment.

On the performance: After several chapters, I was able to adapt to Cynthia’s adaptation, but I REALLLLY missed Bahni. There was very little—if any—difference in Cynthia’s voice when she read male & female characters, leaving me confused at times. By the end, there was some improvement in the performance, but it wasn’t the same.

On the story: TA gave up completely on this third book. The series had so much potential, but the story falls flat; characters are forgotten, underdeveloped, and sacrificed, right along with the plot. 😔

Great narration and storyline

this final book moved a bit slow and did not develop the newly introduced characters as much

Terrible storyline that deviated from first and second book plots

***spoilers***
I think Tomi Adeyemi read Evan Winter Rage of Dragons and said let's steal some key elements (tribal war against a crude primitive enemy that harnesses the magic in their blood to fight). This is a totally new storyline, set in never heard of lands, and its a ploy for world domination by a brute warrior king who strives to become a god [with a passing mentionof bicuriousity].

There is no trigger warning about the physical abuse and "middle passage" experience dominating the first half of the text. Iron armed mercenary Rohen just disappeared without any speculation about his whereabouts. The aftermath of the siege on Òrìṣà captain seemed mild for its demise to be integral to the world domination plot. Battles scenes were epic; but things ended abruptly with a very anticlimactic resolution.