Item: SHADOW AND BONE SEIGH AND STORM
Rating: 4.00
Author: pamela

by Leigh Bardugo

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Enter the Grishaverse with book two of the Shadow and Bone Trilogy by number one New York Times-bestselling author Leigh Bardugo. Perfect for fans of Laini Taylor and Sarah J. Maas.

Now with a stunning new cover and exclusive bonus material: Nikolai Lantsov character art and a Q&A with Leigh Bardugo.

Soldier. Summoner. Saint. Alina Starkov's power has grown, but not without a price. She is the Sun Summoner - hunted across the True Sea, haunted by the lives she took on the Shadow Fold. But she...

Instead of suffering from middle-book syndrome Siege and Storm vastly surpassed the mediocrity of Shadow and Bone. Alina really came into her own, and she turned out to be a really interesting character with many, many shades of grey.

There were moments when Siege and Storm was still a little tropey, but the story was strong enough, and Leigh Bardugo's writing mature and developed enough that it didn't matter so much. I also felt like this book gave a better sense of the world and the internal mythology (although I still feel like there would have been a lot more scope for world-building had this been a High Fantasy novel, rather than YA).

I'm looking forward to reading book three now, and I'm glad I didn't give up after the first book. Let's see if the trilogy can keep up the new pace.

SHADOW AND BONE SEIGH AND STORM (Grishaverse, #2) (Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #2)

by Leigh Bardugo

Reviewed by pamela on Mar 18, 2020

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