Book Review: Sightwitch by Susan Dennard

Back with a few reviews today, it's the perfect day today to do all book related things, it's cold and rainy so it's time to be under the blankets and get some stuff done...let's do this.


Sightwitch by Susan Dennard

From Goodreads:
Before Safi and Iseult battled a Bloodwitch...

Before Merik returned from the dead…

Ryber Fortiza was a Sightwitch Sister at a secluded convent, waiting to be called by her goddess into the depths of the mountain. There she would receive the gift of foretelling. But when that call never comes, Ryber finds herself the only Sister without the Sight.

Years pass and Ryber’s misfit pain becomes a dull ache, until one day, Sisters who already possess the Sight are summoned into the mountain, never to return. Soon enough, Ryber is the only Sister left. Now, it is up to her to save her Sisters, though she does not have the Sight—and though she does not know what might await her inside the mountain.

On her journey underground, she encounters a young captain named Kullen Ikray, who has no memory of who he is or how he got there. Together, the two journey ever deeper in search of answers, their road filled with horrors, and what they find at the end of that road will alter the fate of the Witchlands forever.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

If you haven't started reading The Witchlands series, do it now, it's full of witches, magic, friendship stories and some romance thrown in so a little bit of everything.  And this book?  It was the perfect novella for the series.

We go back, back in time and get to meet Ryber, more like read her story in the form of her journal entries and oh man it was such a nice ride.  Ryber is a Sightwitch on a convent, a secluded one, one that no one can find unless you have the gift of foretelling.  Ryber first goes there as a little girl and has been there since then waiting for her turn to be called by her goddess to receive the gift, but as the years go by and she never gets called she finds herself the only Sister without the Sight.

Until one day, all the Sisters even the ones who have the Sight all summoned to the mountain and they never return.  Ryber is the only one left at the convent and as the days go by she they never return she decides that she needs to go after them in order to save them.

After she is set in her journey underground, she meets a young captain named Kullen, who has no clue who he is and how he got there.  At first she isn't sure if she wants him to help her, but eventually she realizes that he could be could helpful and together they go deeper in search of answers.  Answers that will change the fate of the Witchlands forever.

I loved how this book was more about the journey and the answers behind everything then about romance.  I also loved getting to know more about the older magic and history of the Witchlands, totally a sucker for that. 

5 out of 5 stars and I can't wait to continue with the rest of the series.

XOXO,

Nelia