Children of Blood and Bone

I am too angry, too... emotional to give this book a rating right now.
Not Ok. F U, Tomi.

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After I have calmed down a little and breathed.

So... I read this because it sounded interesting.
It wasn't bad, not at all, but it wasn't good either.
Tomi managed to make her message clear. Racism is very clearly presented, easily understood, and in that she does a good job.
The writing wasn't the best, but that's true about most books, so I'm not complaining about that.
I liked the characters.
What I didn't like was that I felt cheated. It felt like Tomi Adeyemi betrayed me, cheated me of a satisfying ending. Sold me short to prepare for the next book. I hate books that end with cliffhangers. I hate uncertainty, misery, unhappy relationships, people being angry with each other, especially when these feelings never get solved. She left me in a storm, she tainted the victory.
I hate it that Inan saved his father's life, just to have him kill him because of that. I hate it that we didn't get any real reason to why the king hated magic and majis. I hate it that Amari couldn't kill her father, but had no problems doing that a minute later. I hate it that Amari's magic is presented as something ominous, as if her magic was dangerous and she was going to become evil because of it. Nothing implied the premise of the next book. I hate it that Tzain was barely mentioned in the end. Is Inan dead or not? No-one in the book seems to care. I did.
So - not going to read any more of her books.
Also, “I cried a lot when I wrote this book”, she starts the afterword. I don't care.