Dark and entrancing, with a third volume to come. Readers will benefit from starting with the first book, which meticulously lays out Tea’s world and her training as a bone witch, but Chupeco incorporates enough of these details in her action-driven sequel that newcomers can still find their footing. Tea is a wonderfully complex character who knowingly assumes the mantle of villain, but Chupeco deftly exposes her admirable qualities alongside her flaws. Chupeco places the reader in the middle of the action, and they must puzzle through Tea’s motivations and the circumstances that brought her there-things that are gradually revealed through her conversations with the bard, and often seem at odds with one another. As in The Bone Witch, the narrative alternates between Tea’s recollections, which she tells the bard, and his own account of her terrifying campaign. A mysterious sleeping sickness is afflicting royal families, and the cure appears to lie with the old Heart Forger and bringing down the remaining Faceless leaders. With an army of the dead and monsters known as daeva, she wrests control of kingdoms that would oppose her. Chupeco’s beautifully crafted world from The Bone Witch (2017) expands in this sequel, which joins dark asha Tea on her crusade of revenge. Potentially Sensitive Areas: War, Violence, Strong sexual themes, Alcohol, Transphobiaīooklist starred (Febru(Vol. War is brewing among the kingdoms, and when dark magic is at play, no one is safe. Because you can’t kill someone who can never die… With the help of these terrifying beasts, she can finally enact revenge against the royals who wronged her―and took the life of her one true love.īut there are those who plot against her, those who would use Tea’s dark power for their own nefarious ends. Her heart is set on vengeance, and she now possesses all she needs to command the mighty daeva. And she is done with her self-imposed exile. A bone witch who can resurrect the dead, she has the power to take life…and return it.

In The Bone Witch, Tea mastered resurrection―now she’s after revenge…

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