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A review by amybibliophile
Sea Witch Rising by Sarah Henning
3.0
Buddy read with Kirsty_Bookworm!
Rating 3.5 stars
As you will see in my review for book 1 I absolutely adored it, however book 2 I didn't feel lived up to my high expectations.
Sea Witch Rising follows the story of Runa and Alia, the Sea King's mermaid twins. A year ago Alia saved the human boy prince from drowning and has ever since been in madly in love with him, knowing a relationship between them is impossible with her living under the sea, Alia makes a magical deal with the Sea Witch to give her four days on land to make the prince fall in love with her and share a true loves kiss. Only Alia has to forfeit her voice as a condition of the contract.
Upon discovering her sister missing, Runa approaches the Sea Witch to discover if there is any way to get her sister back. There is no love lost between the Witch and Runa yet the Witch gives her the chance to go on land under her own magical contract to try and help her sister. The difference is if Runa fails she becomes human forever but if Alia fails she will die and become nothing...
I loved the new characters as much as I did in the previous book, I feel like my issue with this one lies with the book feeling way longer than what it needs to be. I'd say the last third of the book felt dragged out without a much happening with it mainly focusing on Runa's love interest. I didn't feel like this was needed in the book as Runa has always been the sister to hate the 'land-dwellers' and main focus is getting back home to the sea kingdom.
As its a tale about sisters I felt the lack of emotion from Runa towards the end of the book to be hugely lacking. There is all-sorts of new plot lines thrown in that made it feel a little messy and not thought through.
Overall the book was still a good read, I would probably have given this more stars had the first one not been so amazing. Runa was definitely the best part of this book, I enjoyed her chapters more than I did Evie's, her character was very well developed and she proved to be a good strong protagonist. My final thought is I feel like this sits well as a duology and no more, but you could also get away with reading the first book only.
Rating 3.5 stars
As you will see in my review for book 1 I absolutely adored it, however book 2 I didn't feel lived up to my high expectations.
Sea Witch Rising follows the story of Runa and Alia, the Sea King's mermaid twins. A year ago Alia saved the human boy prince from drowning and has ever since been in madly in love with him, knowing a relationship between them is impossible with her living under the sea, Alia makes a magical deal with the Sea Witch to give her four days on land to make the prince fall in love with her and share a true loves kiss. Only Alia has to forfeit her voice as a condition of the contract.
Upon discovering her sister missing, Runa approaches the Sea Witch to discover if there is any way to get her sister back. There is no love lost between the Witch and Runa yet the Witch gives her the chance to go on land under her own magical contract to try and help her sister. The difference is if Runa fails she becomes human forever but if Alia fails she will die and become nothing...
I loved the new characters as much as I did in the previous book, I feel like my issue with this one lies with the book feeling way longer than what it needs to be. I'd say the last third of the book felt dragged out without a much happening with it mainly focusing on Runa's love interest. I didn't feel like this was needed in the book as Runa has always been the sister to hate the 'land-dwellers' and main focus is getting back home to the sea kingdom.
As its a tale about sisters I felt the lack of emotion from Runa towards the end of the book to be hugely lacking. There is all-sorts of new plot lines thrown in that made it feel a little messy and not thought through.
Overall the book was still a good read, I would probably have given this more stars had the first one not been so amazing. Runa was definitely the best part of this book, I enjoyed her chapters more than I did Evie's, her character was very well developed and she proved to be a good strong protagonist. My final thought is I feel like this sits well as a duology and no more, but you could also get away with reading the first book only.