voodoocactus's review of The Bewitchments of Love and Hate (The Wraeththu Chronicles Book 2)

3/5: Well, it’s been *cough* four years since I read the first book of this trilogy. Oops? Oh yeah, I can totally understand why I didn’t like this book as much back when I read it the first time: it wasn’t all and everything about Pellaz, the Chosen One Best Thing Ever but about growing up, politics, the complicated relationships of a har tribe, and worldbuilding. So, obviously, boring, right? Wrong. Swift grows up as the sheltered heir of the war-waging Varr tribe, shying away from his aloof father Terzian and adoring his ”hostling” (aka mother), Cobweb, a creature of magic and all things ...