Sea Witch Rising by Sarah Henning

Sea Witch Rising (The Sea Witch, #2)

by Sarah Henning

This sequel to THE SEA WITCH is an alternative reimagining of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid. It’s a heart-wrenching story about the complications of sisterhood, the uncompromising nature of magic and the cost of redemption.

Alia has made a deal with the Sea Witch to give up her life as a mermaid in exchange for a human soul. Now she has only twelve hours left on land to win the prince she loves, or perish.
But Alia’s sister, Runa, knows that the prince isn’t capable of true love, so she makes her own bargain with the Sea Witch – and prepares to bring Alia back to the ocean, whether she likes it or not.
Below the waves, the Sea Witch has a plan to challenge the order of the sea. It’s going to take power – power she doesn’t yet have.
As Runa and the Sea Witch’s fates intertwine, they find themselves caught in the middle of a deadly conflict between land and water. Will they be brave enough to sacrifice their own hearts’ desires for a chance to save their worlds…?

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This is the sequel to Sea Witch the backstory on one of the most evil villains of all time from the Little Mermaid. I really enjoyed this sequel way more then book one as i felt that it was mostly telling us what we all ready knew about this tale. This sequel takes what was lacking in book one and throughly different story that we all know. This is why i am liking the new malificent story as we have these evil characters but Disney never really tells us why they are evil. What decision changed them from being good to evil? Did a parent wound them so bad that they never learned to be good? Or what circumstance in their past wounded them to the turning point of this evil root?

In the Sea Witch Rising not only are we getting new ideas about what really is happening in the Sea Kingdom with the Sea King, we also get to know the pain that Sea Witch went through. We learn how she became chained to her lair, we learn that in all intents and purposes she was just like the Little Mermaid who wanted more then what she had underwater. This second book is very action packed and even left me feeling like more story could be forth coming from the ending. I truly enjoyed this boook.

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