If you’re looking for noble characters with a strong sense of right and wrong, happy endings, and damsels in distress, this book is not for you.

The organic development of Jyosh and the skills progression is indicative of a well-thought-out plot, especially how training can be completed in a Tel’aran’rhoid-like place.

So this is a YA book, and going into it, I expected the regular YA tropes. While there were a few tropes here and there, it wasn’t as much as I expected. 

If you enjoy knowing your characters intimately, history, a well-written story and Asian culture, I recommend you pick up this book.

The book covers themes such as racism, politics in the pre and post-colonial era in Africa, Identity crisis, infidelity, the slave trade, and the importance of knowing one’s roots

Ebere has a theory that a killer is out there that claims his victim every Christmas, and she believes their best friend Janet was one of his victims.

The book, rather than being plot-based, is character-based. It follows the development of a character from being a juvenile psycho to being mature.