I won't post my review until April publicly, but I'll just say here that Son of the Storm is a powerhouse start to a trilogy that I'll 100% be following the rest of the way. Intriguing politics, nuanced characters, and a strange new magic system will bring in any long-time reader of fantasy and hopefully convert some of those not too enthused about the genre. This is a book that took me a long time to read, mainly because I was devouring every sentence with care, stopping to reread and understand parts of the world Okungbowa has created here. I'll be checking out his other novel immediately.

Another of those various "origin" fantasy book. We get a lot of diversity recently in fantasy and that is a great thing. I love the "African" setting, the world building, the characters had a bunch of stereotypes to them, but it didn't bother me much and the plot was good enough. If you're interested in discovering and exploring new and original take on the fantasy genre, I would recommend this one.