What’s fascinating about the second installment of The Wormwood Trilogy is that we follow many different characters, which is a change from the first book. In The Rosewater Insurrection, Tade Thompson delivers a brilliant book that continues the events of Rosewater. Thompson shows us the full potential of ugliness that we carry as human beings, and I loved it. Kaaro serves as a mirror for the reader he’s super messy, as we all are. Femi and Aminat (Kaaro’s boss and love interest, respectively) are who we all want to be, but Kaaro is who we actually most likely are. Most of us are unsure of ourselves, unsatisfied with our current work situation yet unmotivated to change it, and completely okay with not being the hero. Kaaro stands as one of the best characters I’ve encountered, simply because of how much I related to him and what that ultimately says about me as a human being. Kaaro is an imperfect, selfish, and absolutely relatable protagonist, and Thompson’s crafting of him is masterful. In the first book Rosewater, we follow one protagonist, Kaaro.
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