SHORTLISTED FOR THE WEEK JUNIOR BOOK AWARDS THE JHALAK PRIZE AND THE BRANFORD BOASE AWARD
"Thrilling tautly-written pulls you right in and keeps you there! Plus: bonus trickster god!"
Louie Stowell author of Loki "A fast-paced first-class debut with action scenes that will
leave you breathless and characters who will have you cheering. I loved it!" A.F. Steadman
author of the Skandar series Discover a fierce and fun story of one boy versus six gods from
a magical new voice in children's fiction... Kayode dreams of eating the forbidden fruit of
the Orishas so he can gain the power of the gods and stop them terrorizing his people. So when
a fruit mysteriously appears in his path after the Orishas snatch his sister he leaps on it.
Surging with new and difficult-to-control powers he joins forces with a shapeshifting
trickster god and a vengeful princess to save his sister and put an end to the mighty Orishas.
But each has more fearful powers than the last - and Kayode's stolen half-god strength won't
last for ever...
