A review by sullensunshine
The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective slow-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

For me personally, this was a little hard to get into. There’s a lot of world building and fantasy-like build up/descriptions in order to understand the culture and picture of our world setting. While I understand the need of this,,,it was SO hard to find interesting in the beginning. I found myself getting confused more often then not with certain terminology that wasn’t explained and it would take me out of the setting. 

That being said…once it picks up it picks UP. Rin Chupeco does this really neat thing where she alternatives between future scenes and the current perspective of out main character. By the time I finished, I was completely enveloped into the story and ready to read the sequel. 

The characters are incredibly diverse (genders, race, even a possible subtle message/context of a gender fluid character and plus size characters). The romance is mentioned but not focused on completely if that’s not your thing and the action scenes are pretty thrilling. 
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