A fantasy book with no magic? That’s like a bagel without cream cheese! Cereal without milk! An owl without a graduation cap!

As the world’s only librarian possessing “the magic to enter books,” she must restore the Books of the Seven Heroes. She is also searching for her parents, who went missing when she was a child.

A book about Jews in magic, from Germany, in the very year that the Nazis assumed power and started burning “un-German” books in bonfires across the country. It seemed obvious.

Children of Anguish and Anarchy is the third and last book in a fantasy series based on the Yoruba religion. It centers on the fight between people with magic powers and an oppressive monarchy.