So you could say, things get a little out of hand. The president gest involved, there’s unrest in the streets, and something is happening in the alien biodome. Meanwhile, Jack Jacques, the mayor of Rosewater, declares the city’s independence which leads to a whole shit show of conflict, both within Rosewater and in Nigeria. She doesn’t know who she is, only that she’s not the wife and mother her husband and child seem to think she is… This woman, Alyssa, is actually experiencing severe amnesia. Aminat’s job is to find people with a particularly low percentage of fungus, when she stumbles across a woman who appears to be more alien than human, something unheard of. Every human is a certain percentace fungus at this point, and Femi, Aminat’s S45 boss, is trying to find a way to reverse this. Except some, like Kaaro, have been turned into so-called sensitives and can enter the xenosphere. So this is a clear departure from the storytelling style of the first book but if anything, it made this volume easier to breeze through, much easier to follow (no multiple time lines), and it helped show new aspects of Rosewater and its particular style of alien invasion.Īs we learned in the first book, aliens have already successfully invaded Earth using fungi which live inside humans with very little effect on us. Instead, we get alternating chapters from the POV of Aminat whom we’ve met in the first book and who works for S45 under Femi Alaagomeji, the mayor of Rosewater, Jack Jacques, Antony, and some more new characters. Where Rosewater was told solely from the point of view of Kaaro, a sensitive and an agent for the secret government branch S45, this second book only spares a few chapters for him. But Aminat is stymied by the machinations of the Mayor of Rosewater and the emergence of an old enemy of Wormwood… She must capture a woman who is the key to the survival of the human race.
The government agent Aminat, the lover of the retired sensitive Kaaro, is at the forefront of the cold, silent conflict. Those who know the truth of the invasion keep the secret. Orders.Īll is quiet in the city of Rosewater as it expands on the back of the gargantuan alien Wormwood. I’d like that to be clear, yet I am cleaning my gun as I start this telling, having already stripped and cleaned my rifle, with the intention of killing a man. Thanks to the 2020 Best Series Hugo Award, I finally picked up Rosewater by Tade Thompson and was so mesmerized that I had to continue the trilogy in what, for me, is actually a pretty prompt manner. Books you would otherwise have overlooked, books you weren’t aware of, books you thought were about something completely different. One of the joys of literary awards is that they can lead you to new and interesting books.
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