Thank you NetGalley, Bloomsbury Publishing and Jamar for providing me with a copy of Cameron Battle and the Escape Trials for review.

This is an amazing book. It is a Middle Grade book with a queer black MC and amazing West African mythology. LOVE. This book is a great MG book, it has everything that I am looking for in a fast paced fantasy. What is not fast paced is the love story, which is inline with basically every MG series ever so hopefully there is more to come.

I really really enjoyed the first book in this series, my review of that was:

"Tweenie Queer book! I love what this book brings to the table and what future books in the series can offer. Cameron Battle and the Hidden Kingdoms by @jamarjperry

I was very excited by this book being compared to the Percy Jackson books with a queer black boy as the MC. It is not immediately obvious from this book that the MC is queer but there are the foundations of a queer romance. I enjoyed the world creation and look forward to exploring the world of Chidani and the queer romance in future books."

My thoughts remain the same, there is a future for these books to depict queer black teens in such a meaningful way. I love Cameron and Zion. I need to see this romance blossom. There is also so much more room to explore the Mythology and the world of Chidani which educates and informs children as well as entertains.

Having read the first book almost a year ago I really needed a recap on what was what and who was who before diving into this.

TL;DR If you like the Percy Jackson universe but want some black queer rep then this will be right up your alley.