This book sounds like everything I could want from a YA fantasy novel: a fantasy world with a deadly setting, two characters with opposing goals forced to work together, and larger forces at play that come to shake the very foundation of the story I was promised. But the Greater Jungle is a dangerous place, and Ekon and Koffi must work together if they wish to make it out alive.īeasts of Prey has been one of my most anticipated reads of the year, and when I found out I would have the opportunity to read and review this book before its release, I was ecstatic. The two form a tenuous alliance to brave the Greater Jungle together and capture the monster-though each needs the Shetani for a different purpose. Though separated by class and culture, a twist of fate drives Koffi and Ekon to a shared, desperate goal: to hunt the Shetani, a monster who has hunted in the Greater Jungle for the last hundred years, killing thousands. Koffi is an indentured servant of the Night Zoo, forced to work as a beast master to pay off her family’s debts, and Ekon is an aspiring Son of the Six, a warrior desperate to fulfill a family legacy. Koffi and Ekon could not be more different. A hundred years after a cataclysm called the Rupture scars the sky and drives magic from the city of Lkossa, two teens form an unlikely alliance that may be the key to unlocking mysteries hidden for the last century. Content warning: violence, gore, racial discrimination/prejudices, trauma-induced hallucinationsīeasts of Prey by Ayana Gray is a young adult fantasy novel inspired by Pan-African myths and folklore.
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