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fatimareadsbooks's review
4.0
I honestly don't understand why this book has so many negative reviews. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. This was the perfect fantasy book I needed. The pacing was on point, and the world building was phenomenal. The only complaint I have about this book is the too subtle romance. I wanted to see more of the love triangle, but it was just hinted at in the book. Overall, this was a light, delightful, and perfectly paced read that can easily be devoured. With dimensional characters, excellent world-building, and an engaging plot, The Bone Witch is a great series starter for sure!
westzstamm's review
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
3.5
vcreative's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Re-read in 2024 and I've wanted to do this forever...
My review a few years back is eeesh down here, I fell too hard for this series and it was worth it..
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Oh the feeling of losing myself in a high fantasy world such as this is what makes reading books one of the main pleasures of life. This book was spectacular and was a mix of one of the most complicated world buildings and the most intricate of stories that I’ve read. I don’t have any idea why I waited so long to read this series, first I waited because it was an unfinished series, which if started my tender heart couldn’t survive any cliffhangers and hence I waited until the trilogy was complete. Regretfully I was quite late at picking up series.
Well well … the world building is pressuring complex, but I felt the same while reading the shadow and bone trilogy, hence I completely immersed myself in this book and damn ! there are so many amazing characters and so much magic in this book that it is admirable to have brought everything together in such a fabulous manner. I love ‘tea’ she is one of the female protagonists who will always remain in my heart as a brave badass. Bringing the dead back to life and to be skilled with such a gift is only for brave souls and she is amazing, I love the warmth and love Fox shows her, making me wish for a brother like him (alive please). Mykaela makes me very sad because of her role as the vanishing mentor, I like Kalen more than Kance (smiles silently), I am really intrigued by the heart-forgers… what I mean to say is that all the characters are making a deep impact on me while I am reading this series.
The plot of the book, the magic, the emotions, the heartglass, the colours, the amazing series of events from the first book have made me in tune for the next books which I hope to enjoy as much as I can.
The trick is to keep reading, this first book is like the warm up before a body gruelling exercise, what I feel is that, there are a lot of elements that will make the next two books more deadly beautiful only if our time and understanding is invested in this book one. This is what I felt, because I just started the second book and I’m already breezing through it, as I am well versed with the characters and the basic plot. Lets see how the next two books go!!
PS: loved the ending in this one.
My review a few years back is eeesh down here, I fell too hard for this series and it was worth it..
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Oh the feeling of losing myself in a high fantasy world such as this is what makes reading books one of the main pleasures of life. This book was spectacular and was a mix of one of the most complicated world buildings and the most intricate of stories that I’ve read. I don’t have any idea why I waited so long to read this series, first I waited because it was an unfinished series, which if started my tender heart couldn’t survive any cliffhangers and hence I waited until the trilogy was complete. Regretfully I was quite late at picking up series.
Well well … the world building is pressuring complex, but I felt the same while reading the shadow and bone trilogy, hence I completely immersed myself in this book and damn ! there are so many amazing characters and so much magic in this book that it is admirable to have brought everything together in such a fabulous manner. I love ‘tea’ she is one of the female protagonists who will always remain in my heart as a brave badass. Bringing the dead back to life and to be skilled with such a gift is only for brave souls and she is amazing, I love the warmth and love Fox shows her, making me wish for a brother like him (alive please). Mykaela makes me very sad because of her role as the vanishing mentor, I like Kalen more than Kance (smiles silently), I am really intrigued by the heart-forgers… what I mean to say is that all the characters are making a deep impact on me while I am reading this series.
The plot of the book, the magic, the emotions, the heartglass, the colours, the amazing series of events from the first book have made me in tune for the next books which I hope to enjoy as much as I can.
The trick is to keep reading, this first book is like the warm up before a body gruelling exercise, what I feel is that, there are a lot of elements that will make the next two books more deadly beautiful only if our time and understanding is invested in this book one. This is what I felt, because I just started the second book and I’m already breezing through it, as I am well versed with the characters and the basic plot. Lets see how the next two books go!!
PS: loved the ending in this one.
ninaskokoro's review against another edition
4.0
MY MOUTH DROPPED . i had a feeling i knew who this person was but i was still shocked.
i only give 4 cuz at times things didn’t make sense and i was not seeing a lot of development in relationships at least not to a standard i was used to? but i’m hoping it’ll make up for it in the next books cuz i’m definitely reading them and i’m sure my questions will be answered.
the details and the back and forth between past and present kept me hooked and engaged. i enjoyed seeing tea crave her dark power and seeing her embrace it. i cant wait to see what happened next.
there were lots of BANGER LINES THO
“Then perhaps we should carve a world one day where the strength lies in who you are rather than in what they expect you to be.”
yea buddy
i only give 4 cuz at times things didn’t make sense and i was not seeing a lot of development in relationships at least not to a standard i was used to? but i’m hoping it’ll make up for it in the next books cuz i’m definitely reading them and i’m sure my questions will be answered.
the details and the back and forth between past and present kept me hooked and engaged. i enjoyed seeing tea crave her dark power and seeing her embrace it. i cant wait to see what happened next.
there were lots of BANGER LINES THO
“Then perhaps we should carve a world one day where the strength lies in who you are rather than in what they expect you to be.”
yea buddy
charlmax's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
briannam177's review
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
annettebooksofhopeanddreams's review
3.0
This trilogy has been on my wishlist for quite some time already, so when Illumicrate announced that they were gonna do a special edition set I had to get them. The books are insanely pretty, but the thing with those bookbox books is that they always look a little intimidating and therefore stay on the shelves for a long time. Until a friend of mine invited me for a buddy read. After comparing our tbr's we picked this book and gave ourselves a week to read it.
It's hard to rate this book and that's mostly because it feels like the story has only just gotten started. This book is for the biggest part world building. A very young girl is discovered to be "a bone witch" and together with her we go through training, learn the customs and see what is needed to become one of the famous Ashas. In between all the world building there is some politics and we see a hint of rebellion, but the book is only going there slowly.
The main reason I never gave up on the book, are the small snippets in between every chapter, showing us the situation in the future. It's clear that even the end of the book doesn't catch up with the timeline of these snippets, but seeing where it eventually would go and at what point we'd eventually get kept me motivated to continue reading. I wanted to know how she got there and why she got there.
However, because of the loads of world building and very little plot I had a hard time connecting with the character. In this book she's mostly following the rules, or ending up in trouble. It somehow feels like we don't learn that much about her personality, partly because she's still developing one to begin with. I therefore can't really care about her yet. I do hope that the next two books will change that. We're gonna wait and see when I feel like reading them.
It's hard to rate this book and that's mostly because it feels like the story has only just gotten started. This book is for the biggest part world building. A very young girl is discovered to be "a bone witch" and together with her we go through training, learn the customs and see what is needed to become one of the famous Ashas. In between all the world building there is some politics and we see a hint of rebellion, but the book is only going there slowly.
The main reason I never gave up on the book, are the small snippets in between every chapter, showing us the situation in the future. It's clear that even the end of the book doesn't catch up with the timeline of these snippets, but seeing where it eventually would go and at what point we'd eventually get kept me motivated to continue reading. I wanted to know how she got there and why she got there.
However, because of the loads of world building and very little plot I had a hard time connecting with the character. In this book she's mostly following the rules, or ending up in trouble. It somehow feels like we don't learn that much about her personality, partly because she's still developing one to begin with. I therefore can't really care about her yet. I do hope that the next two books will change that. We're gonna wait and see when I feel like reading them.
kultainenkettu's review
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25