PH BLOG TOUR: THE SHADOW GLASS BY RIN CHUPECO || BOOK REVIEW + AESTHETIC BOARD

Hullo, bookdragons!

If you’ve been keeping up with all my screaming lately, you’ll be aware that I have completely fallen in love with Rin Chupeco’s The Bone Witch series. Thank you so much to Rin Chupeco, Sourcebooks Fire and Myrth for giving me the opportunity to be a part of this blog tour. Without this, I wouldn’t have discovered another epic series to cry and flail about.

I’ll be posting the blog tour schedule below so you can check out other bloggers’ posts too! Let’s support this book and send all our praises to my favorite three-headed dragon who can turn you into ashes in a blink but is still adorable all the same.

The azi is basically Toothless with teeth + two more heads

(I will also be posting my first attempt at an aesthetic mood board below so just pretend you like it and we can call this a day thank you very much)

The Shadow Glass (The Bone Witch #3) by Rin Chupeco 

Publication date: March 5, 2019

ISBN: 9781492660606

Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Book Depository | Indiebound

In the highly anticipated finale to the Bone Witch trilogy, Tea’s life—and the fate of the kingdoms—hangs in the balance 

Tea is a bone witch with the dark magic needed to raise the dead. She has used this magic to breathe life into those she has loved and lost…and those who would join her army against the deceitful royals. But Tea’s quest to conjure a shadowglass—to achieve immortality for the one person she loves most in the world—threatens to consume her heart.

Tea’s black heartsglass only grows darker with each new betrayal. And when she is left with new blood on her hands, Tea must answer to a power greater than the elder asha or even her conscience…

Thank you to the publisher for giving me a copy in exchange for an honest review.

It has been a while since I binge read a series and said, “I’M IN SO MUCH PAIN GIVE THESE BOOKS MORE LOVE AND ATTENTION YOU COWARDS!!!”

I only started reading The Bone Witch series a month ago but I find myself so attached to this trilogy now that I consider it to be one of the best YA Fantasy series out there.

MORE THOUGHTS ON THE SHADOW GLASS:

• The Shadow Glass tied up the missing links to Tea’s tale seamlessly all the while making me feel as if I’ve run 10 miles with all the heavy breathing my lungs made while reading. It was THAT thrilling and breathtaking. I still loved the storytelling till the very end, with the flashbacks narrated by Tea and the present narrated by the Bard fitting perfectly.

Reading this book made me feel as if I’ve been running ten miles per hour (or something)

• It also showed more of the Seven Kingdoms that Rin Chupeco created vividly and I loved that very much. I’m still reeling from the complex world-building of this series rivaling even George R. R. Martin’s and Brandon Sanderson’s with its meticulous details. Each kingdom has its own mythology, political history and architecture. I am the kind of bookdragon who’s always thirsty for excellent worlds to get lost in and… THIS SERIES DEFINITELY KEPT ME HYDRATED, ADAM. No doubt about it.

• I also can’t deny that I loved all the character developments in this book. I understood Tea better here and it was only in this book that I grasped the scope of her connection with and love for Kalen.

Have you ever loved anyone so fiercely you were afraid it might shatter you? It was a blessing and a burden I carried.

• Tea and Fox’s sibling relationship is also realistic in its ups and downs. I admire how Chupeco wrote Fox to be such a three-dimensional character with his misgivings and imperfections.

• How can I also forget my love for the queer couples in this series? Shadi and Zoya make one of the best f/f pairs for they complement each other beautifully. HELLO TO LIKH AND KHALAD TOO. I was one step away from screaming at them to just admit they have feelings for each other. The both of them are just too pure okay?? I will take a bullet for them. Or, you know, shield them with runes because there are no guns in this world.

• There’s also a whole scene here where Tea was just full-on bookdragon mode and IT WAS SUCH A HUGE MOOD. Will forever live for that.

“Tea,” Althy said, “focus. Remember that we have a purpose in coming here.”

“Yes,” I found myself saying, “to read everything we can get our hands on.”

“Oh dear,” murmured my asha-sister. “We’ve lost her.”

• The Shadow Glass gave me a lot of feels with all the plot twists and betrayals it held. It has a mix of mystery and magic that made my reading experience 100% memorable. This was the best conclusion I have hoped for and my heart is full of love for it.

AESTHETIC MOOD BOARD 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Despite an unsettling resemblance to Japanese revenants, Rin always maintains her sense of hummus. Born and raised in Manila, Philippines, she keeps four pets: a dog, two birds, and a husband. Dances like the neighbors are watching. 

She is represented by Rebecca Podos of the Helen Rees Agency. She is also fond of speaking in the third person, and may as well finish this short bio in this manner. While she does not always get to check her Goodreads page, she does answer questions posed to her there as promptly as she is able to.

Find her at the following places: Twitter | Pinterest | Instagram | Blog

BLOG TOUR SCHEDULE

02.19.2019

Cliste Bella

 

02.20.2019

Stay Bookish
Living a Hundred Lives

 

02.21.2019

Camillea Reads

 

02.22.2019

The Royal Polar Bear Reads

Bookdragonism

Rambles of a Reader

Dexterous_Totalus

 

02.23.2019

Wander with Jon

Confessions of a Pinay Bookaholic

That’s it!

I will certainly miss this world and all its characters. Nevertheless, I’m sure this won’t be the end. I will visit Tea’s tale over and over again because it’s what it deserves.

READ THIS SERIES IF YOU HAVEN’T YET. THE SHADOW GLASS GOES OUT ON MARCH 5, 2019. WATCH OUT FOR IT.

Have you read The Bone Witch series? Are you excited for The Shadowglass? Do you often love books with dragons in them? Tell me some of your favorites!