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A review by theeuphoriczat
Truthwitch by Susan Dennard
4.0
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1. This book is set in a world wherein nations have generally been at peace for the last 20 years due to a peace agreement that is bound by magic and blood. This made it difficult for rulers to start wars. But this agreement is only bound to lands and basically the seas are free warfare front. But at the start of this book, we are basically at the tail ends of the 20 year peace agreement and different nations are making plots to raid and kill each other (I am giving this back story because the author did not really lay this out in the start of this book and you have to basically read the first and second book to get the whole picture. I have left a lot of information out but this is enough to go into the book without being too confused)
2. There are different types of magic, not everyone has magic but most of the important characters in this series have magic. We have Safi who is a Truthwitch (basically she can tell if you are lying or speaking the truth), Iseult who is a Treadwitch (basically she can see people life thread, relationships between people, their emotions and at some point she realised that she has the power to cut life threads i.e. kill people, or manipulate these threads i.e. control people), we have Prince Merik who is a Windwitch (basically he can manipulate the air), there is also Kullen, who as a similar power as Merik but I cannot remember right now, and then finally there is Aeduan who is a Bloodwitch (basically he once he smells your blood he can track you, he can also take control of your body by manipulating your blood). There are also other times of elemental witches. Then there is cleaving, which basically means a witch loses control of their magic and they become mindless killing machines whose blood is poisonous!
3. Finally, at the start of this book Safi and Iseult run into Aeduan who has been paid to find them. They escape but Aeduan already got their smell and he is after them. Safi is betrothed to a emperor but she escapes with the help of Merik and his crew.
I have tried not to spoil the main plot point because this book is packed full of action and intrigue. I loved that we are following different characters POV and the cultures are introduced in such an amazing way. I am really loving it.
1. This book is set in a world wherein nations have generally been at peace for the last 20 years due to a peace agreement that is bound by magic and blood. This made it difficult for rulers to start wars. But this agreement is only bound to lands and basically the seas are free warfare front. But at the start of this book, we are basically at the tail ends of the 20 year peace agreement and different nations are making plots to raid and kill each other (I am giving this back story because the author did not really lay this out in the start of this book and you have to basically read the first and second book to get the whole picture. I have left a lot of information out but this is enough to go into the book without being too confused)
2. There are different types of magic, not everyone has magic but most of the important characters in this series have magic. We have Safi who is a Truthwitch (basically she can tell if you are lying or speaking the truth), Iseult who is a Treadwitch (basically she can see people life thread, relationships between people, their emotions and at some point she realised that she has the power to cut life threads i.e. kill people, or manipulate these threads i.e. control people), we have Prince Merik who is a Windwitch (basically he can manipulate the air), there is also Kullen, who as a similar power as Merik but I cannot remember right now, and then finally there is Aeduan who is a Bloodwitch (basically he once he smells your blood he can track you, he can also take control of your body by manipulating your blood). There are also other times of elemental witches. Then there is cleaving, which basically means a witch loses control of their magic and they become mindless killing machines whose blood is poisonous!
3. Finally, at the start of this book Safi and Iseult run into Aeduan who has been paid to find them. They escape but Aeduan already got their smell and he is after them. Safi is betrothed to a emperor but she escapes with the help of Merik and his crew.
I have tried not to spoil the main plot point because this book is packed full of action and intrigue. I loved that we are following different characters POV and the cultures are introduced in such an amazing way. I am really loving it.