Writer Tomi Adeyemi lands seven figure deal for ‘Black Lives Matter-inspired fantasy’ novel | Metro News
A young black writer has landed a seven figure book and movie deal for her first novel.
Tomi Adeyemi’s debut book ‘Children of Blood and Bone’ has been described as a ‘Black Lives Matter-inspired fantasy novel’.
The film company hopes it will be as successful as its other young adult franchises ‘Twilight’ and ‘Maze Runner’.Fox 2000 was so impressed with the 23-year-old’s writing it decided to snap up the film rights before the novel was even released.
Children of Blood and Bone tells the story of a dark skinned girl who takes on an empire.
Children of Blood and Bone Summary
The protagonist is Zélie, who at six years old watched the king’s guards hang her mother on a tree outside her home. She never forgot it. In the beginning, every Orïshan was a magi: born with dark skin, stark white hair and the blessing of the god’s magic once they reached adulthood.
Yet over time, their population dwindled and they became Orïsha’s minority. Magic became a thing to loathe, dark skin transformed into a thing to hate. Ten years after the raid that killed her mother and took away magic forever, Zélie Adebola has one chance to bring magic back.
Through a fortuitous encounter with the Princess Amari, Zélie comes into possession of a sacred scroll necessary to restore a connection to the gods and secure magic for another hundred years. This sets the young women on a quest to end the senseless violence and oppression by the lighter-skinned royal class.
Danger lurks in this west-African inspired world, where lionnaires and cheetanaires roam, and the beautiful villages built over oceans, out of sand or forged in iron hide a dark underbelly of slavery and corruption. They find themselves pitted against a crown prince bent on wiping out magic for good.
