To be honest, I like that she was written as a struggling hero rather than one who faced all with a brave face. Grief, guilt, and trauma wreak havoc on our main character, Tea I was immediately drawn in by how the author handled this picture of mental pressure and its effect on Tea. Through our characters, we come to understand how easily (and often) history is manipulated in favour of the elite. Not only do we see how this has shaped the nations but it also gives a glimpse about how stories formed the asha association. In the third book, a lot of importance is placed on the world’s mythology. The way Rin Chupeco played with the plot line and her reader’s emotions is a kind of dark magic in itself. While its prequels were luscious and detail oriented, The Shadow Glass is full of suspense.
Inspired by Asian culture, the eight kingdoms of The Bone Witch is steeped in traditions, delicious cuisine, and mythology. If Tea is still driven by her desire to see her brother breath and live, why is she wielding the dark recklessly? Why won’t she come home?Īs I’ve mentioned before, nothing will stop me from being in awe of Rin Chupeco’s world-building. In the past, Tea seeks the First Harvest for her brother’s life, and is desperate to protect her friends from the cursed Blight, which transforms humans into daeva-like creatures. In the future, Tea is no longer as we knew her. Fox never knew his sister to be cruel and merciless. Fox, her dead brother and familiar, is angry and distressed by Tea’s destructive behavior, which can only be a consequence of her blackened heartglass, he believes. Lost faith and distrust stand between her and her friends. In The Shadow Glass, hope seems bleak –Tea moves with her army of daeva and familiars, burning kingdoms for reasons that is unclear. What good is magic, Tea asks, if the minority suffer for it? It is said that the Dark ashas are spawns of evil, yet it is the Dark asha who practice healing and rid the lands of daeva or demons. But beneath the asha’s glamour, Tea finds herself questioning the association that took her in. This action of love and grief soon brings her to the world of the asha, an association of magic wielding, geisha-like women, where she begins her training in the arts of the Dark. The Bone Witch trilogy begins with a girl who accidentally raises her brother from the dead.
By this, I mean that The Bone Witch trilogy is not just about one girl’s mission to save her world at the heart of it, this trilogy is a subtle commentary about power struggle and elitism, about gender imbalance, of discrimination, and love in all its form. Reading The Bone Witch trilogy by Rin Chupeco was not only an exhilarating experience as a reader, but as a writer, I found this Asian author’s work to be compelling. “HEY, TEA, MY HEART’S A BIT DEAD…MIND RAISING IT FOR ME?
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