Siege and Storm (Grishaverse, #2) (Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #2)

by Leigh Bardugo

[Kait ✨]

warning: kind of (?) spoilery seas ahead:

I loooooved this second instalment. it’s the perfect kind of dark and twisty and I think bardugo’s skill as a writer has shown improvement and growth. bardugo threw in some complications with kind of a love square (???) with alina, mal, the darkling (no surprise there) and sturmhond (I LOVE HIM). mal and alina both struggle with how to live with her increasing power and new goals. I LOVED how bardugo developed the use of magic in this sequel, both with the darkling and alina. alina learns how to be a leader and how to accept herself- which has a pretty steep learning curve. and she ended it on a cliffhanger of epic proportions.

there are also new characters whom I love, particularly STURMHOND (!!!), tamar and tolya, and an old character, Zoya, who I now kind of like a lot but hated in book one??? (bardugo is messing with my heart. I love when authors flip the tables on me like this.)

soooo I will definitely starting #3 ASAP. I can’t get enough of alina and the crew, and I know I’m going to regret it once I get to the end (within a span of a week???), but I JUST CAN’T HELP MYSELF.