The Dark Asha

4/5

I have recently finished reading a young adult fantasy book called The Bone Witch, which was written by Rin Chupeco. The book is about Tea who is different the her older witch sisters, she is a bone Witch. After Tea finds out about her brother, Fox, unfortunate death she doesn’t exactly feel like it happened. During the funeral she accidental raises her brother from the dead. Tea uses tons of her energy to raise Fox from the dead so she is unconscious for a while, which gives another dark asha some time to come get her. When Tea awakens she is greeted by her family and this other asha who plans to take Tea as an apprentice. This begins her journey to become a fully trained dark asha. Being a dark asha has some tough times for Tea because they are hated since they are involved with the dead and Tea got familiar early on even before training (Her brother Fox). Read to find about how Tea learns to handle being judged but also having a great destiny.

The other part of this book takes place in a future time were  Tea is already 17 and has been forced to live on a island because of something she did. We find out that she doesn’t kill deavea but instead takes them On has familiars. This horrid monsters have killed thousands, even her own brother was killed by one, yet she realized something that others haven’t, they are just defending them selfs. In reality the person who found Tea sees that these supposed horrid creatures act like any normal pet. Tea is planning something with these risen creatures, but you have to find out by reading.

                                                (Possible Spoilers Read At Your Own Risk)

In my opinion the author had an amazing idea for a book and had parts of that in there, but there was a little to much explaining and detail that it was hard to keep reading at times. Towards the middle of the book I had gotten bored but continued to read for the sake I really love the idea of this book. It shocked me how many people didn’t even finish the book, they just had to wait for the plot to appear. Once Tea became an official asha the plot finally kicked in a bit more which really kept me hooked. Seeing Teas plan after whatever happened to her made me realize that maybe the author wanted to start book 1 with detail and explanation so book 2 Kansas got include more plat and less explaination. Other than thought the book really stands out to any other Witch book I have read. This one included different levels of magic and a way to show who is powerful then the people who are not. The way to see all this power is through a thing called an hourglass, this is something you wear around you neck which shows your heart. People who are normal have red hourglasses which make it easy to read emotions, people with weak magic have pastel colors and still is easy to read emotions, then we have normal asha which have darker color and it’s a little bit harder to read, and finally we have the dark asha their hourglasses are either grey or black. The book really does include stuff you wouldn’t expect to be a part of a book about witches, so I recommend this book to anyone who has the patience to wait for the plot and if they like fantasy.