Children of Blood and Bone is a chance to address that. It was in South America that the seeds of Children of Blood and Bone, the first in a trilogy, were sown. Justina Ireland’s hugely anticipated Dread Nation, an alternative US civil war story with added zombies, is published in the US next month. “In my perfect world, we’d have one black girl fantasy book every month,” says Adeyemi. “We need them, and we need fantasy stories about black boys as well.”Does she feel that Children of Blood and Bone is a necessary corrective, given how white much current fantasy is?

Source: The Guardian March 10, 2018 19:34 UTC