Esperance
Detective Ethan Krol is on the twentieth floor of a Chicago apartment building. A father and son have been found dead, their lungs full of sea water - hundreds of miles away from the ocean.
Abidemi Eniola has arrived in Bristol, England. She claims to be Nigerian, but her accent is wrong and she can do remarkable things with technology, things that her new friend, Hollie Rogers, has never seen before. Abi is in possession of a number of heirlooms that need to be returned to their rightful owners, and Hollie is more than happy to go along for the ride.
But neither Abidemi Eniola nor her heirlooms are quite what they seem. Abi is a target of Ethan Krol’s investigations, and Hollie’s life is about to become far stranger than she bargained for. In a clash of cultures, histories, and different ideas about justice, the consequences will be deadly . . .
REVIEW:
[Read: 09 June 2025]Quite gripping, kept me wanting to know what was going on. Would've been quite helpful if the author could've included a glossary of foreign terms used so that I could better understand what the MC was talking about. As such, I just had to assume a meaning to some words based on the situation at the time, which at times I wasn't sure if it was correct.
Not too sure about the ending as well, thought it was a bit lacking. Didn't quite explain what gbese was and why it so important to the characters except that it was. Didn't understand the motivating drivers for Yemi to want to do what he did so many centuries later. I understand the historical context, and the need for revenge, but what drove him to this point and to do what he did?
It was an entertaining book anyway, regardless of the above.