This made him feel more relatable and like a typically fallible human. In many ways he doesn’t feel like the driver of his own story, but just someone being carried along by those around him and the whirlwind of events, which distinguishes him from the stereotypical fantasy protagonist who shapes the entire world to his will. He is often a coward, choosing to run away from danger except when forced not to, and he struggles with trying to be non-violent when his work and the danger he is consistently in makes that impossible. Kaaro is fascinating not only for his complexity, but because he is very much not your typical action hero. As a result of these powers, he has been coerced into working for S45, a secretive government agency. Kaaro is a sensitive: a person with psychic powers that allow him to read other people’s minds. The first novel, Rosewater, is the story of Kaaro.
It made all the entries in the trilogy hard to put down, because I wanted to see where the story took me next. The main driver of the plot is the unravelling of the mystery surrounding the dome and the aliens. The plot is twisting, complex, and non-linear.
Periodic miraculous healing events and the free energy the dome provides leads to the town of Rosewater slowly rising around the dome, but no humans can enter it to figure out what is going on inside.Īt heart, The Wormwood Trilogy is an anti-colonial story, no surprise given the topic and setting, but the way it handles those themes makes it a strong and innovative first contact novel. After being chased out of London, Wormwood burrows underneath Nigeria and forms a biodome around itself. Wormwood is the name of an alien entity living underground. The Wormwood Trilogy is a first contact science fantasy novel set largely (with the addition of some flashbacks) in 2060’s Nigeria. Head to the end of the review if you want to get a quick sense of whether or not this trilogy might interest you. My goal in this review is to clarify exactly what I enjoyed about it, and, hopefully, what may not appeal to some readers. That means it might not be for you, even though I loved it.
Normally, I don’t post reviews, as my desire to read the next book in my reading list always seems to overwhelm my desire to write a review about the last one I read, but I recently finished Tade Thompson’s Wormwood Trilogy and I enjoyed it so much that I just had to squee about it on reddit and hopefully convince some of you to pick it up too if you haven’t already.īefore getting into my review, I do want to emphasize that these are just my impressions and feelings about the series, and no book works for everybody.
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