M Is For Awesome reviewed The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco (The Bone Witch, #1)
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Bounced off this one - beautiful language and world building but Suddenly Romance not my taste.
411 pages
English language
Published Oct. 28, 2017
Tea's gift for death magic means that she is a bone witch, a title that makes her feared and ostracized by her community, but when an older bone witch trains her to become an asha--one who can wield elemental magic--Tea will have to overcome her obstacles and make a powerful choice in the face of danger as dark forces approach.
Bounced off this one - beautiful language and world building but Suddenly Romance not my taste.
As much as I liked the concept, I feel like the story was slow. I may end up reading the rest of the series anyway because I'm hoping for more but it might be a while for me to get to it. I still gave it three stars because the dead brother part of the story was pretty good.
Subtle and Powerful, The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco wields undeath and beauty to great effect. Tea of the Embers tells her history to the Bard on a lonely and bone-strewn beach, one of great magic; silk and swords; danger, dance, and betrayal.
The Heartsrunes feel at once ingenious and obvious, like someone pointed out a thing I ought to have known forever but never dreamed of before. They're essential to the book without ever feeling like a storytelling shortcut, and the color system was understandable. Tea is believable at different levels of maturity throughout the whole book, she changes a lot and it comes through really well. Her dynamic with Fox feels like a real sibling relationship, their peculiar complication notwithstanding.
There’s a tension and release created by the interstitial sections of the framing device, sometimes warning of emotional beats to come, sometimes cooling down after a stressful chapter. …
The Bone Witch : 4 stars
This book is about Tea, a young girl being trained to become a dark asha, a bone witch that can raise the dead (between others)...
Actually, this book was more of an introduction to Tea's powers and her training, the other witches, how the magic system works etc. The most interesting was these very short chapters where we would have glimpses of Tea's life at 18, as opposed to the actual events of the book where she is 13-15. Im very curious as to what happened to her but mainly what she will do after all this ahah
Nicely written YA novel touching upon some difficult themes. Looking forward to read the next part.
The Bone Witch has a really good premise and engaging characters, but it could benefit from a stricter editor. Too often the story bogs down in mundane details about wardrobe and food. I was hoping for more fantasy, less homage to Memoirs of a Geisha.