Cursed to never have positive emotions, she’s forced to steal them from others, and love is the strongest emotion of all. She takes the love a mother has for her husband and uses it to feel again. She barters her magic, but not for money or favors. One fascinating thing is that Tamsin is introduced to us as a cruel witch. Even the High Councillor of witches (and Tamsin’s mother) chooses her love for her children over the world, which wreaks havoc on reality.
Dark magic reaps power from the earth itself and can have disastrous consequences as the natural balance gets skewed. Similarly, Tamsin’s love for her sister nearly rips the world in two – she chooses to use dark magic to save her sister’s life.
She spends every waking moment with her sickly father. Wren loves her father completely, selflessly – she chooses his own health over her freedom and her future. I mean the love between a father and a daughter – so great that Wren takes on the impossible to save him. Not only does the novel talk about consent, but it talks about love, and especially the rarely seen dynamic in YA of familial love. In the end, Tamsin is forced to confront her worst nightmare, and she’s able to rise thanks to Wren’s strength as a source – thanks to a relationship forged in adversity. Their journey is perilous, and the two discover each other along the way.
Wives no longer recognize their husbands, and Wren’s father forgets who she is. The plague starts with erasing one’s memories, before destroying them completely. The two embark on a journey to save the world from a dreaded plague that’s wreaking havoc on life. The story itself is straightforward – it’s about a disgraced witch, Tamsin, and an untrained source, Wren. It’s a fascinating relationship that’s built on mutual trust and respect, rather than a skewed power dynamic. In fact, witches can’t use a source’s power without their consent. Consent strengthens that bond and allows a witch to access more power. A source consents to share their power with a witch, it’s an active choice made between two people. The dynamic between a witch and her source was one I hadn’t seen too often in fantasy stories – that of consent. She learns to weave enchantments, but it comes at a cost of her energy. A witch, on the other hand, controls magic. A source is a person who can sense magic, and who houses a reservoir of potential magic that can be harnessed by a witch. In this intriguing novel, humans are split into three categories those without magic (aka commonfolk), those that can use magic ( witches), and those that are magic (sources). In Bitter and Sweet Magic by Adrienne Tooley, it’s a little different. Of course, this also means that there are two types of magic – light, and dark. From Harry Potter to Lord of the Rings, magic is used as a form of power, something that comes deep from the earth itself. When it comes to building fantasy worlds, magic seems part and parcel of how the world works.
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