A review by thejufox
Windwitch by Susan Dennard

4.0

3.75-4 stars!

Just like Truthwitch, Windwitch jumps straight into the action! Things get blown up and the story picks up immediately. At the end of Truthwitch, the 4 main characters (Safi, Iseult, Merik and Aeduan) are separated, each in a different part of the world. Fairly quickly I realised that it was taking me a lot of effort to keep putting myself to reading. A lot more than I needed for Truthwitch. And by the midway point I realised that this was because the one aspect that I loved most in Truthwitch just wasn't there as much in Windwitch... the interactions between (any combination of) the main characters.

Safi and Iseult's friendship is without a doubt one of the best parts of this series. In Truthwitch we see them have funny, casual conversations and we see them working and fighting together to get through all of the mess that's going on. Since they aren't together when Windwitch begins, that fun aspect just isn't there. Windwitch felt a lot darker and more serious than Truthwitch because there was no lightness to compensate it.
Once I got around halfway through, there are main character interactions, so I started enjoying those chapters more and my reading picked up a lot!

I loved the insane amount of mysteries this book had going on. So many questions are constantly running through your head and even though answers are being thrown around, you still feel like there's more questions left unanswered than ones that have been solved. There was a constant feeling of uncertainty about who we can trust and who is going to end up betraying someone or who they're working for.

So overall, even though I wasn't as into some of the storylines as I was in Truthwitch and I missed the funny casual dialogue between Safi and Iseult (and Safi and Merik), Windwitch is a great continuation and all of the mysteries and questions I still have after reading it make me super excited about the rest of this series.