His mix of highly imaginative world-building, exquisite prose, characterizations, and fresh take on the alien takeover trope leads to one of the best trilogies I have ever read. The Rosewater Redemption is a picturesque finale to the Wormwood Trilogy and cements Thompson as one of the major players in the science fiction genre for many years to come.

Receiving this ARC did not influence my thoughts or opinions on the novel. Thanks to the publisher and author for an advance reading copy of The Rosewater Redemption (The Wormwood Trilogy #3) in exchange for an honest review. Tade Thompson’s innovative, genre-bending, Afrofuturist series, the Wormwood Trilogy, is perfect for fans of Jeff Vandermeer, N. The fugitive known as Bicycle Girl, Kaaro, and his former handler Femi may be humanity’s last line of defense. Operating across spacetime, the xenosphere, and international borders, it is up to a small group of hackers and criminals to prevent the extra-terrestrial advance. And the city’s alien inhabitants are threatening mass murder for their own sinister ends… Nigeria isn’t willing to let Rosewater go without a fight. The Mayor finds that debts incurred during the insurrection are coming back to haunt him.

Life in the newly independent city-state of Rosewater isn’t everything its citizens were expecting. The Rosewater Redemption concludes the award-winning, cutting edge Wormwood trilogy, set in Nigeria, by one of science fiction’s most engaging new voices.

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