The Heart Forger by Rin ChupecoThis is the sequel to THE BONE WITCH. If you don't want anything spoiled for The Bone Witch, don't read this review.
An amazon summary so you can consider your choices in life, "In The Bone Witch, Tea mastered resurrection―now she's after revenge...
No one knows death like Tea. A bone witch who can resurrect the dead, she has the power to take life...and return it. And she is done with her self-imposed exile. Her heart is set on vengeance, and she now possesses all she needs to command the mighty daeva. 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.
But there are those who plot against her, those who would use Tea's dark power for their own nefarious ends. Because you can't kill someone who can never die...
War is brewing among the kingdoms, and when dark magic is at play, no one is safe." AMAZON LINK OF JUSTICE
I love it when novels pick up where the last book left off. The oracle delivered a kind of creepy message to Tea in the present, and in the future, Kalen is brought back from the dead, even though he has a silver heartsglass, and is also Tea's love. Not the Prince. DUN DUN DUNNNNN
The book actually begins with the future. Tea has started a march with her daeva army on Daanoris's capital, Santiang to rescue the heart forger. So something I kind of failed to mention in the last reveal... because we get to see the future coincide with the past, we already know that Tea is a dark anti-hero. What's super cool, is in this book, we get to see more of the slow slide of compromising choices start to push her towards the dark even more and more. We already got a sense for it in the previous book, and one of the things wielders of the dark have to worry about is literally going insane. Too much dark magic, and you go a little cray cray. Soooo, all the summoning of the daeva we saw in the last book, and being in control of them, is kind of a huge deal since Tea really "shouldn't" be able to do that without going crazy. But she did. So like, OH DAMN. ...anyways.
In the present, Tea is still trying to find Lady Mykaela's heartsglass. Her visits to Aenah, who in the last book was revealed to be part of the Faceless (this book's Team Rocket), reveal there are dark runes being withheld from Tea. This kind of becomes a mystery as Tea balances her trying to find out more about the dark runes, starting to wonder if there's corruption within the asha society, and also manage her communication/relationship with the azi (three headed flying daeva; basically a giant, Cerebrus dragon). Her relationship with her brother is getting a little more complex as uh, his own life starts to get more complex.
That's enough summary.
So I liked this book a lot better than the first one. I think it accomplished a lot more than the first book, and it also really started building the world even more. The character development felt a lot more authentic too, and it was kind of fascinating to see how Tea worked through some situations. I'm more eager to read the third book than I was to read the second book. There were just less hiccups in this book, and it's interesting to see the present starting to catch up with the future. I am NERVOUS that the present and future are going to meet or something weird is going to happen in the third book to have the timelines meet, but I could easily see a fourth book and all of that lining up. I'm just NERVOUS about when they finally meet. NERVOUS.
Happy reading!
The book actually begins with the future. Tea has started a march with her daeva army on Daanoris's capital, Santiang to rescue the heart forger. So something I kind of failed to mention in the last reveal... because we get to see the future coincide with the past, we already know that Tea is a dark anti-hero. What's super cool, is in this book, we get to see more of the slow slide of compromising choices start to push her towards the dark even more and more. We already got a sense for it in the previous book, and one of the things wielders of the dark have to worry about is literally going insane. Too much dark magic, and you go a little cray cray. Soooo, all the summoning of the daeva we saw in the last book, and being in control of them, is kind of a huge deal since Tea really "shouldn't" be able to do that without going crazy. But she did. So like, OH DAMN. ...anyways.
In the present, Tea is still trying to find Lady Mykaela's heartsglass. Her visits to Aenah, who in the last book was revealed to be part of the Faceless (this book's Team Rocket), reveal there are dark runes being withheld from Tea. This kind of becomes a mystery as Tea balances her trying to find out more about the dark runes, starting to wonder if there's corruption within the asha society, and also manage her communication/relationship with the azi (three headed flying daeva; basically a giant, Cerebrus dragon). Her relationship with her brother is getting a little more complex as uh, his own life starts to get more complex.
That's enough summary.
So I liked this book a lot better than the first one. I think it accomplished a lot more than the first book, and it also really started building the world even more. The character development felt a lot more authentic too, and it was kind of fascinating to see how Tea worked through some situations. I'm more eager to read the third book than I was to read the second book. There were just less hiccups in this book, and it's interesting to see the present starting to catch up with the future. I am NERVOUS that the present and future are going to meet or something weird is going to happen in the third book to have the timelines meet, but I could easily see a fourth book and all of that lining up. I'm just NERVOUS about when they finally meet. NERVOUS.
Happy reading!
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