She is a Redemptor, with a map of the Underworld glowing on her skin.

The title of the second book in Ifueko’s duology has a dual meaning. Tarisai must decide whether to defend the status quo as she was taught or risk everything to fight for something better. Meanwhile, a masked activist calling himself the Crocodile is riling up peasants and miners across the empire and trying to overthrow the new rulers. They taunt Tar with hateful words and terrorize anyone who resists her rule. Ojiji, spirits of Redemptor children who failed to escape the Underworld, begin haunting Aritsar. The Abiku (monstrous creatures who inhabit the Underworld) agreed to stop taking Songlanders as Redemptors (children sent to the Underworld as sacrifices) in exchange for Tarisai becoming a Redemptor, but no deal with the Abiku is without its loopholes and tricks. As the newly anointed Empress, she reigns alongside Dayo, now the Emperor of Aritsar. Redemptor, the second book in Jordan Ifueko’s young adult fantasy duology, begins not long after the events of Raybearer. The truths about her mother, the emperor, and the empire itself were tangled up in her own murky past, and exposing those secrets cracked the foundations of her homeland.

To save the boy she loved like a brother, she set out on a journey across the vast Aritsar empire. She was sent to the imperial palace after being cursed by her mother to become one of the Crown Prince’s trusted Council of 11 and then kill him. Tarisai was raised in a secret estate, cut off from the world by her enigmatic and largely absent mother, a woman known only as The Lady. Now at 17, she is Tarisai Idajo, Empress Redemptor, the ruler who was never supposed to exist. or to live for it.Redemptor, Jordan Ifueko ( Abrams 978-4-2, 336pp, $18.99, hc) August 2021.Īt 11 years old, she was Tarisai of Swana, a lonely girl who was desperate to be loved. But in this finale to the Raybearer duology, Tarisai must learn whether to die for justice. Tarisai fears the pressure may consume her.

With the lives of her loved ones on the line, assassination attempts from unknown quarters, and a handsome new stranger she can’t quite trust. Months into her shaky reign as empress, child spirits haunt her, demanding that she pay for past sins of the empire. Or at least, that’s what she tells her increasingly distant circle of friends. She must then descend into the Underworld, a sacrifice to end all future atrocities.

To appease the sinister spirits of the dead, Tarisai must now anoint a council of her own, coming into her full power as a Raybearer. You can read this before Redemptor (Raybearer, #2) PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.įor the first time, an Empress Redemptor sits on Aritsar’s throne. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Redemptor (Raybearer, #2) written by Jordan Ifueko which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: Redemptor (Raybearer, #2) by Jordan Ifueko

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