Now the most wanted person in Sonande, her only hope of reclaiming what is rightfully hers lies in a divine power hidden in the long-lost city of her ancestors. If there’s anything we need right now, it’s a little escapist fiction, and that’s exactly what ASOWAR is.Karina lost everything after a violent coup left her without her kingdom or her throne. The worldbuilding is fun and fresh, the setting and characters so transportive you can feel carried away as you read. I really enjoyed my time with A Song of Wraiths and Ruin. This drama always makes her fun to read about. She’s funny and headstrong and a little dramatic. He has anxiety and often suffers from panic attacks-something you don’t often see with male characters not just in YA fiction, but fiction in general. The three of them clearly love one another and their banter is hilarious to read. I was immediately endeared to Malik and his relationships with his sisters, Leila and Nadia. Aside from the extremely intricate world, A Song of Wraiths and Ruin excels at character relationships. ATLA is one of my favorite shows of all time. The “alignments” system, the system of sorting people into “houses” according to the elements such as water, fire, life, and more, reminded me a lot of Avatar: The Last Airbender. I personally loved A Song of Wraiths and Ruin’s worldbuilding and found the intricacies to be fascinating. If this all sounds a bit confusing to you, it’s because it is. She kills a champion of Solstasia, her mother comes back to life. Karina wants to bring her mother back and the only way to do this is through a deal with a god. And so, he sets out to kill Karina while Karina has her own murder to contend with: The murder of her mother, queen of Sonande.
Malik, however, needs to be in the Solastasia’s games for a reason: His little sister, Nadia, has been kidnapped by a trickster god, and the only way to save her is by killing Karina. Karina is the princess of Sonande’s kingdom (queendom, really), while Malik magics himself into being the Champion for Ziran’s Solstasia, a week-long festival in which champions from every “alignment” of Ziran is chosen to compete in a series of challenges for a big prize. Their stories intersect in Ziran, the capital city of Sonande. This dual-POV fantasy novel is based on West African mythology and folklore, starring a refugee named Malik and a princess named Karina. Of the book that I bought my own (we also have a copy here at the library) and got to reading as soon as I finished the other book I’d been in the middle of. I was so excited to get my hands on a copy One of my most anticipated releases of the year, A Song of Wraiths and Ruin, was published to much fanfare back in the beginning of June.
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