Author of Children of Blood and Bone says her debut novel was a response to genre fiction in which the characters were always whiteIt has been called the biggest fantasy debut novel of 2018,drawing comparisons with everything from Game of Thrones to Black Panther, and has netted a film deal reported to be worth seven figures.
But Tomi Adeyemi, or the 24-year-old Nigerian-American author of Children of Blood and Bone,says that such success was the last thing on her intellect when she sat down to write her epic tale of an oppressive world where magic has been outlawed.
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Source: guardian.co.uk