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Koku Akanbi: The Heart of Midnight

Epic fantasy adventure perfect for Marvel fans

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Koku Akanbi: The Heart of Midnight

By: Maria Motunrayo Adebisi
Narrated by: Ola Orebiyi
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Summary

 After cynical thirteen year-old orphan Koku accidentally releases a demon on a trip to the British Museum, his uncle sends him to Olori, the West African land of origins, for the summer. Cursed with a weird name and an illness to match, Koku thinks life can't get any worse. His sickle cell anaemia has always left him feeling unwanted and powerless, and now he's being parcelled off to a country he barely remembers.

But when Koku arrives in Olori, he finds himself in a land of endless sun and powerful magical tribes - and on the wrong side of a war. The ruling Ogún tribe is trying to destroy the night, and the magical creatures who need it, forever. As the last living descendent of the darkness-controlling Olókun tribe, Koku is the only one who can stop them.

Accompanied by Moremi, a martial artist with an anger problem, and Osoosi, a shapeshifter who spends half of her time as a hyena, Koku must venture into the dangerous jungle of Jujuland to master his powers, find the powerful talisman called the Heart of Midnight and restore Night to Olori. But he'll have to move fast, because a teenaged assassin with a soul-swallowing sword is on his tail... and if the night disappears, then so will he.

A Jujuland adventure story.

© 2023 Maria Motunrayo Adebisi (P) 2023 Hodder & Stoughton Limited©2023 Maria Motunrayo Adebisi Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths Fantasy Fiction Growing Up & Facts of Life Science Fiction & Fantasy Paranormal Africa Shifter
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Critic reviews

'Epic storytelling with a sharp wit. I love Kòkú!'
Sharp, witty, original and thrilling
A thrilling fantasy adventure.
Kòkú Àkànbí is a triumph of epic proportions! Exciting, adventurous and enlightening, this is a quest you will not want to miss...
All stars
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I was so taken with this book- a teacher friend asked me to review for school to get my perspective for our students.
As the target group was young teens - it took a minute to be in the language the character used.... and when I was in I was in.....I was in, in!!!

I saw myself for the first time - me as a child of Africa...I saw what I had missed when I was that age. not seeing myself as characters in books forever leaves you a guest in someone else's home. these characters mad me feel at home. I understand the culture, I understood the behaviours and I learnt about some African mythology that I was never taught...and it made me want to learn more about my roots and cultures that I didn't know and didn't understand how much I needed it. I had to listen to it again....this is awesome book. with rich rounded character that beathed in my world.... more please

spoke to the child within me.

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