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Truthwitch (The Witchlands, #1)

Susan Dennard

Start date: January 1, 2016

Finish date: January 31, 2016

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Oct 27, 2015 Beatrix Haase rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Book: Truthwitch

Author: Susan Dennard

Publisher: Tor Teen

Date Published: January 5, 2016

Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult, Magic

Date Read: January 28 – January 29

Goodreads Rating: 4.07/5

My Rating: 4.5/5

Pages: 416

Synopsis:

On a continent ruled by three empires, some are born with a “witchery,” a magical skill that sets them apart from others.

In the Witchlands, there are almost as many types of magic as there are ways to get in trouble—as two desperate young women know all too well.

Safiya is a Truthwitch ...more

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Feb 18, 2019 the_queen_of_books24 rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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First read: rates 5 stars

Review: This book was so good!

Second read: rated 4 stars

Review: Safi was annoying until nearly the end, but I loved Aduean and Iseult so they made up for it. I also didn’t love Merik the second time round, except he redeemed himself at the end. He kept claiming to put his country first, and yet was willing to hand the person that was key to him getting a trade agreement to feed his country over to the enemy. Doesn’t really stack up. But other than that, I liked it!

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Jan 02, 2016 Noelia rated it liked it

*3.5* stars.
I had many problems with this book:

1º The nonexisting world-building: We are thrusted into this wolrd and the author just expects us to follow her without little to no explaining of this world, and this could be just because the wolrd wasn´t entirely fleshed out. We hear about a peace treatry thats about to end, but we don´t know who is fighting in this war or why were they fighting in the first place. The magic system is really underwhelmingly unimaginative yet not explain at all, i *3.5* stars.
I had many problems with this book:

1º The nonexisting world-building: We are thrusted into this wolrd and the author just expects us to follow her without little to no explaining of this world, and this could be just because the wolrd wasn´t entirely fleshed out. We hear about a peace treatry thats about to end, but we don´t know who is fighting in this war or why were they fighting in the first place. The magic system is really underwhelmingly unimaginative yet not explain at all, is everyone a witch?, if not, how do you become a witch?, how many types of witches are there?, and, what powers do they have?. Susan offers no explaining for any of this questions and it´s extremely frustraiting. Terms like "cleaving" and "thread sisters" and "thread stones" are used constantly yet never explain: That´s not world-building whatsoever.

2º The plot: To this point I don´t really see the plot in which this first book was suposse to direct us for the rest of the series. A lot of it consisted on Safi making poor and stupid decisions that didn´t make any sense.

3º The characters:

Safi suffered from the "especial snowflake syndrome" in which you´re told this character posses an important and rare ability that makes the really valuable yet you never really see her do anything usefull with her powers. She was stubborn and made the most stupid decisions at every given chance. Though I´ve got to admit I really like the turn her character took by the ending of the novel.

Iseult was a much more interesting character tha Safi in my opinion, she was smart and interesting form the very start od the book. I can´t wait to see where her character goes on Witchwind.

Merik for me felt a little meh, I didn´t feel like he had any distinct characteristic that would whoa me, he was okey like a carboard cutout form every other YA novel.

Aeduan was by far my favourite character in this book, the most complex, multi-layered character without a doubt. I loved his chapters and I loved reading his thoughts.

4º The romance: Insta-love that is so predictable it hurts.

This book definetly has it´s flaws but that doesn´t mean it was horrible, between its perks this book has a good amount of plot twists that I couldn´t always see coming, a big bromance and female friendship that are really lacking in many fantasy books, woman that can and will kick your ass and don´t need any man to save them, and action-packed plot and quick- witty dialogue between the characters.

Also the person narrating the audiobook definetly took a lot from my reading experience pleasure. don´t listen to this one on audiobook. ...more

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