But while she gathers the peppers, the field of flowers behind her turns into a lake, from which a tentacled beast grabs hold of her. As a Leopard born to Lambs, Sunny is considered a free agent, and she struggles to balance her desire to learn more about her magical abilities while having to fit her parents’ idea of a normal daughter.Īfter bringing new readers up to speed on the events of Akata Witch, Akata Warrior begins a year and half later, with Sunny collecting tainted peppers to make soup for her Leopard mentor, the shapeshifter Sugar Cream. Sunny also discovered that, like her new friends, she possesses magical abilities and is therefore what is known as a “Leopard Person,” as opposed to one of the mundane Lambs, like her parents and two brothers. In the first book, Sunny overcame this hurdle and made new friends, among them fifteen-year-olds Orlu and Sasha, two boys with very different tempraments, and Chichi, a girl who may or may not be Sunny’s age of thirteen. Sunny has albinism, a trait for which some of the superstitious fear her and to call her “Akata,” an insult that means “Bush animal,” according to some.
The books’ protagonist is Sunny Nwazue, an African-American girl born to Nigerian immigrant parents and now living in Nigeria.
Having read and enjoyed the first book in your If-Harry-Potter-was-a-girl-in-Nigeria series of young adult novels, Akata Witch, I’ve been looking forward to the sequel, Akata Warrior.
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