@therealkayelle ur good! In public, I support it cause its black (period) and Adeyemi made this whole world based in Orisha worship which I am familiar with. On the webs tho, I can say the characters felt completely generic to me. I assume its cause Adeyemi was trying to make it into a saga and give them time to develop over novels, but their actions felt so flat it didn't make me want to read the sequel.
Also I don't think the book was written for me as I was waiting for one of the characters to be queer and it just...never...happened, despite all indications that they were gay af. It'll probably happen in the 3rd book right before they die off...