The Shadow Glass (The Bone Witch #3)

The Shadow Glass is the concluding book in an ownvoices Asian inspired fantasy series, that stars a bone witch named Tea who has the power to resurrect and control things, which she finds out in The Bone Witch when she accidentally resurrects her brother at his funeral. From there, Tea and her newly risen brother, Fox, go on a journey for Tea to learn about her asha powers, but they quickly feel and realize the expectations that all eight kingdoms are going to put on her. In this world, all the people wear heartsglass around their necks. Your heartsglass will change colors depending on what you\’re feeling but will overall stay mostly the same color. Yet, silver means you draw runes and they are so very important and are so very sought after. Other ashas control elements; fire, earth, water, and wind. But Tea is a dark asha who can control death. Bone witches are not very respected in this world, even though their powers hold the most important job in this world; defeating Daeva, which are different demons who dwell in this world, who are resurrected every so often. The darkness was inside me, I think, long before I raised my brother from the dead. My silver heartsglass merely gave it a mouth, made the darkness realize that it too can hunger This story is told in my favorite format ever, which is half of it being told in present day from a bard, where you see the ramifications of everything that has happened in the past, where Tea appears to be the villain, but the other half is the past, from Teas perspective, where we get to slowly see the events unfold to bring us up to date with current day. Two timelines brilliantly woven together to give us the most epic finale of all time and truly is a masterpiece. I feel like I cant say that much more of a synopsis, because this is the last book in a trilogy, but watching Tea grow, from this girl who was so unsure of her future and her new powers, to this woman who learned to love not only others, but also herself and this power that felt so uncontrollable, and it was an honor to read, truly. And seeing this new journey that Tea has to take for herself in The Shadow Glass was completely enthralling and such a treat to read. I knew that shadowglass spell; I had committed it to memory nearly two years ago, and it was now a mantra, buried so deep within my psyche that nothing could pull it loose. I had pored over those words for so long that sometimes they came easier to me than my own name. But I couldnt write up this review and not talk about the romance and how it completely still leaves me weak in the knees. I would completely lay my life on the line for Tea and Kalen and they are honestly everything. Also, I am just such a sucker for the protector/bodyguard/personal-warrior element in romances, and I seriously will never stop swooning over them. Truly the stuff dream OTPs are made of. I do want to take a minute and talk about the sexual and gender representation in this book! There is a side f/f romance, which you dont get to see that much of in this installment, but I still love them with the sum of my being! But what I really want to talk about is Likh and her transition. In all three books, we see Likh discovering how fluid gender can be, yet also testing out the waters of new things because of the gender roles, and power imbalances, people place on so many things in the societies all these characters explore, but in this book she decides her pronouns and after that everyone instantly respects her pronouns and her transition and its truly beyond words beautiful. I will save the kingdoms, and I will save you in the process, and maybe I will save the bits and pieces of myself that need rescuing too. And I dont have an eloquent way to say it, this ending broke me. I read the last twenty-percent of this book with tears streaming down my face. So much perfection. Overall, this really is the book of my heart, and Tea is the character of my soul, and Rin Chupeco truly wrote a love letter for every girl out there who wants to change the broken world that people think is the default. If you havent started this series yet, please give it a try. I truly love it with my whole heart and soul, and I truly think it is so very worth your time.

I found the story a little too chaotic. I had to stop reading. The only reason why I am not sending the physical book back to Amazon is that I think in the future, I might have enough patience to finish it. It\’s not a good book. The first two books were fabulous and I loved them. The last book is extremely confusing. The reader is kind of left in a tailspin. I thought I had a good grasp on what was going on, but the time between the release of the second book and the last one coupled with the complexity of the story left me stymied. I would not recommend this book to other people.

This was a really great conclusion to the Bone Witch series. I was very impressed with how everything played out and wrapped up. I will say that I felt that the ending felt a tad rushed but nothing that halted my enjoyment. I don\’t think I ever really mentioned in my other reviews about how this story is told. It is actually told in the present and past. I have liked that aspect of the story so far but I really enjoyed the dual aspect in The Shadowglass because everything was finally coming to light. I can see though why this form of story telling could be problematic but Rin Chupeco did a wonderful job holding it together. I have to say that my favorite aspect of this entire series was definitely the world. It was very enriching and foundational. Chupeco poured her heart and soul into detailing the history, myths, and lore. I just found myself constantly getting loss and wanting to learn more. This is the kind of world building I love, so bravo Rin Chupeco for doing the thing. I also ended really enjoying the characters throughout and the journeys. This series from the get go does a wonderful job incorporating elements of race, sexual orientation, identity. I thought it was all handled with extreme care. I highly recommend this series to those who love amazing world building and any sort of death magic. I do believe this will tick all your boxes. I am so excited to read the rest of Chupeco\’s work in the hopefully near future.

As with the first two books in this trilogy I loved the format, its a mix of teas first person perspective of past events with the Bards perspective of present day events. There were twists and reveals a plenty in this book, and a really good ending! Chupeco brought all those loose threads together in a clever way resulting in a very original trilogy. Again the Character interactions were the highlight of this book. I just adore them. I loved the new crazy Yadoshians (the drunk Tea scene is amazing!) and the slow burn romance between two of the secondary characters was perfection. However I have to admit im a little confused about the magic system, its very complicated. This book had a lot more political and theological discussion than the others which did lead to the pacing being slower in these parts. It was my least favourite of the three albeit I loved the reveals/twists so much! We see even more of Chupecos amazing world building but perhaps a little too much as were whisked all over the eight Kingdoms in this book. A special shout out for the representation in this book, there are gay and lesbian characters but primarily for the Trans storyline. Its an integral part of these novels and has not just been thrown in just to tick boxes! Likhs desires/thoughts about her gender grow organically as well as seeing different peoples reactions to her. Overall I thoroughly enjoyed this series and it far exceeded my expectations!

Hello to the future. Im currently writing this review in August 2018, how wild is that? I wanted to post this as my first review in 2019 but I realised I should wait a little bit so it is closer to release date. This also means that instead my fave gets to be posted near valentines day. I was so lucky to see a copy of The Shadowglass at YALC I almost missed it. But boy am I glad I got to read it early, so thank you so so much to the stand for having a few copies there. I think what made me love this book so much is that in theory we got two endings in one the ending of the past story of how Tea became banished on that beach alone. And the ending of the overall story in the present that follows the incredibly strong and unruly Tea as she fights to disrupt a system that has been helping keep Dark Ashas powers limited and leading them to early graves. Seeing Teas strength and growth has been such an incredible journey. I really can not express enough how great its been to see all the pieces of the story come together. Not only does Rin create a vivid and well thought out Fantasy world, magic system, and incredible beasts. She also includes queer and trans characters with ease. Yes guys, I am indeed confirming that in this book we get on page confirmation that Likh identifies as a woman, that theyve had trouble figuring out how they fit in the world, and even go as far to look at if there is any magic to help make their body match how they feel. I think I pretty much cried every time Likh was on page. This might seem like such an over reaction but weve gone on this whole journey with them figuring out their identity and it just really touched me yknow? I am so sad that this world is over. I know Im going to have to reread it because it really did leave its mark for me. This world is one I never want to leave. Id face the daeva, the corrupted, and the faceless alongside Tea any day. The friends she has by her side were such amazing characters to see grow old. The path she had to walk, the lies she had to tell, and the truths she had to keep close to complete this journey were so well thought out and executed that I will 100% be recommending this book, no, this series to anyone who will listen to me. I cant do my love for this series the justice it deserves! Right now, my ARC is travelling around the world amongst some of my friends because I was that desperate to have someone to talk too about this brilliant book and I know theyll all be purchasing a copy to complete their collection. Update: Its been loved in America and Finland and is now on its way to the Netherlands and Germany. If you do pick up a new author this year, this is the one for you.

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