The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco

The Bone Witch (Bone Witch, #1)

by Rin Chupeco

A bard meets a young girl living in exile along a sea of skulls. At his urging, she recounts her beginnings and rise in a society of spellbinders called asha. As a bone witch, her powers of necromancy make her feared and shunned by the populace, but tolerated for her abilities to slay daeva – fearsome beasts that plague the kingdoms.

But there is more to the girl than she first appears. Soon the bard begins to suspect that there is more to her tale than what she claims, and that he has a far greater role to play in her story than even he realizes.

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4 of 5 stars

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I choose to pick this book up right around Halloween as the cover is super creepy and what more appropriate then reading about a girl coming into her powers of a Bone Witch. I really loved the pacing of this story and it a book one in the series the author did a fantastic job of setting up how Tea comes into her own as Bone Witch.

Parts of it did seem rather mundane and boring but the who depth of her connection with her brother as her familiar, the sadness of being ostracized for raising her brother from the dead and the description of the clothing and progression of her training was fascinating to me. I really felt like the author put a lot of effort into pulling us into this world of hua and tea houses. I really like the description scene with the dragon towards the end of the book and the ending was a total surprise for me. I am looking forward to the next book.

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