Tomi Adeyemi is returning to a bookshelf close to you very quickly.
On Tuesday, Feb. 3, the 32-year-old bestselling writer of the hit “Legacy of Orïsha” sequence and writer Henry Holt and Firm, an imprint of Macmillan Youngsters’s Publishing Group, introduced that her first standalone novel, “The Siren,” is ready to reach in September.
The darkish YA title transports readers to Dartmouth College by way of Emery, who arrives on campus decided to guard her scholarship and maintain her previous from catching up together with her. That’s, till she encounters Roux, her disarming stepbrother Eli, and the paranormal group of ladies Roux calls “The Sirens.” As their identify suggests, Emery is drawn into their mesmerizing orbit, their world of extravagance, and turns into intent on becoming a member of them.
Opening up in regards to the new ebook in a current profile with Cosmopolitan journal, Adeyemi stated the story got here from a “mild” place.
“I actually lived with this for 2 years. It was not simply my house. The act of penning this ebook was so mild. It was the coziest place within the universe,” she defined. “It’s an area and a time that solely I do know, and the method of making it was simply so blissful and magical and uncooked.”
She additionally shared that the mission feels totally different from her different titles, which have bought hundreds of thousands of copies since their debut in 2018.
“There was plenty of magic in ‘Youngsters of Blood and Bone.’ There was plenty of ancestral magic. ‘The Siren?’ It’s Soul Magic,” she stated. “It’s not from those who got here earlier than me. It’s actually from inside me.”
Adeyemi, who’s the acclaimed writer behind the bestselling “Legacy of Orïsha” trilogy which incorporates “Youngsters of Blood and Bone,” “Youngsters of Advantage and Vengeance” and “Youngsters of Anguish and Anarchy,” is gearing up for the sequence to hit the large display screen in a movie adaptation starring Viola Davis, Cynthia Erivo, Regina King and Idris Elba, set to hit theaters on Jan. 15, 2027.
Within the meantime, “The Siren,” which is presently out there for preorder, arrives in bookstores on Sept. 29.
