If they don’t, they don’t.” Was an interesting dichotomy to try and swallow, and not the only one I found in this read.ĪKATA WITCH ( Amazon) is the first of the Akata Witch series of books by author Nnedi Okorafor. Because on the one hand, this story totally has adults “dealing with the important stuff”, but on the other hand, there are also several adults that are more than willing to throw children into deadly situations, shrug their shoulders, and say, “If they live, they live. This was a very interesting novel to read, given that perspective. I have a difficult time believing that any story that is told expressly about kids has a more important question to answer. How do you keep the grown-ups from coming in and hijacking the story completely while still making it all believable. Do you know what the biggest problem is for an author trying to write a novel about kids that are caught in the middle of very dangerous events? Parents.
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