The Civilization is a great Africa-based YA Fantasy that I will happily recommend to all my friends, family, and the random person walking by on the sidewalk. I enjoyed that there was a little bit of romance in the book, but that wasn’t what was driving the book or even what the characters were even worried about until everything was said and done. The character development was great and I found myself rooting for our main characters and deeply despising the enemy. 

If I were to give any criticism, I would say that I wished we had more tension and action between the opposing forces, especially in the big fight scenes.

This is a story about a young girl, traveling Africa with her grandfather in search of what her grandfather claims is their magical homeland. Tired of the nomadic lifestyle and yearning for a normal life, she runs away in search of who she really is. her search is cut short when her grandpa is kidnapped and she sets off to find him, but finds herself is a different realm, the same world her grandpa told her about. Now, she has to not only find her grandpa, but break the curse on this foreign world