Sunny, it seems, is a Leopard person, one of the magical folk who live in a world mostly populated by ignorant Lambs. When a boy in her class, Orlu, rescues her from a beating, Sunny is drawn in to a magical world she's never known existed.

She can't play soccer with the boys because, as she says, 'being albino made the sun my enemy,' and she has only enemies at school. Who can't love a story about a Nigerian-American 12-year-old with albinism who discovers latent magical abilities and saves the world? Sunny lives in Nigeria after spending the first nine years of her life in New York. A deus ex machina conclusion leaves all that sacrifice seeming sadly pointless.Īspires to paint-by-numbers quest fantasy but falls short even of that She must fight after unbelievable physical suffering: days of being bled with primitive syringes while deprived of sufficient food and water on a brutally hot desert journey. Alexa will never survive without the parade of men and women who sacrifice themselves to help her return to Damian. With Alexa's unwilling help, he intends to conquer the world, for he's convinced that her blood holds a powerful magic. In the nation of Dansii, Alexa is taken captive and becomes the prisoner of King Armando, the blue-eyed maniac who rules his people with a potent combination of mad science and black sorcery. She travels through a fantasyland packed with flora and fauna from South America and Asia and whose cities have African names. Though she's a member of Damian's personal guard and his affianced bride, she can think of no better plan than disobeying her king's order: she hares off after captured Rylan (ostensibly her second love interest). When the robed villain Manu de Reich os Deos-'The Right Hand of God,' he claims-attacks Alexa and King Damian in the throne room, Alexa can wait no longer.

This trilogy conclusion sends a girl warrior all over fantasyland, a trail of bodies behind her.Īlas, the shoddy worldbuilding and B-movie plotting of the first two books carry over here.

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