Title:
The bone witch
Author:
Rin Chupeco
Rating:
Pages:
432
Date
read: 24 October 2018
Format:
Paperback
Let’s
start off with what this book is about.
Our heroine, Tea, lives in world full of witches. Her sisters are
traditional witches, specializing in things like Forest and Water. Tea's power
is unknown, but it turned out that she is a necromancer - one who can bring
back the dead from the living, when she unwittingly wakes her dead brother from
his coffin.
I loved the first third of
this book. If that pace continued, this book would have got an easy five star
rating. Unfortunately, the rest of this book felt like it would never end, and
not in a good way. This book has very, very long descriptions. Sometimes I
would be taken out of the plot, because it was so overwhelmingly descriptive.
And don’t get me wrong I love it when the author describes things but this was
just way too much.
Let’s
start with the things I loved about this book.
First
off, the concept of the story is amazing! It’s not something I read before. I
loved the friendship between Tea and Fox. I looked forward to see the bond
between them grow. Another thing that I loved about this book is that the story
is told by Tea in the future. In between
chapters you can see current Tea, much older, telling this tale to someone
else. I wished that there were more of those chapters. These chapters had a
really nice dark feeling what I absolutely loved! I found myself enjoying these
chapters more than the actual story. There is a pretty great
magical system. I also love The fantastic hints of monsters.
“Sometimes it is good to remind ourselves how
bitterness tastes.”
Now on to the thing
that I didn’t like.
The lack of action.
There were so many moments that nothing really happened. This got me very
frustrated. With that Another
negative thing about this book would probably be the potential for a love
triangle. It felt like the author was forced to make one. It did not really fit
in the story, at least that’s my opinion.
Also you get so many questions
through the book and like none of them get answered. In the story they talk
about a heart glass and there is like no one that tells you what this thing is…
you kind have to figure it out yourself. ( okay this might have sounded a
little bit harsh).
But overall I think This book series has so much
potential. so even though I didn’t really love this story I would still buy the
second book. Just to see if we get some answers in that one.
