The sequel to Akata Witch, returning to Nigeria to follow albino wizard Sunny and her friends. Having defeated one bad guy in book 1, they're now focused on learning their skills as Leopard People. But Sunny is having dreams of a city going up in smoke, and the masquerade Ekwensu (briefly encountered in the first book) has managed to escape banishment and return to the human world accompanied by a disastrous oil spill. Once again Sunny and her friends have to figure out a way to save the day.

This book featured quite a lot of spiders, so be warned if you're arachnophobic. However, it also featured an invisible flying capybara-like rodent, which is definitely a charming image.

I liked this book a bit better than the first, I think; the characters are more well-developed now, and the world setting continues to be interesting, and the plot was a little less formulaic than in the first book.