Siege and Storm (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #2) in Book Nerds Unite

May 10, 2021 Ella (Marauder's Version) The Book Monster rated it really liked it

Shelves: 4-stars, books-i-want-to-own, genre-friendship, genre-romance, genre-dystopian

Rtc!

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Mar 23, 2021 RoRo rated it liked it

Shelves: 2021-read

3.75 stars

Before I start I would like to give a thank you to booktuber @Enni Endings because I finished this book because of your live reading sprints!!
I unfortunately enjoyed the first book better because let me list why I didnt like this book:
- There were too many characters for me. I was just so confused sometimes about who they were talking about.
- There were too many actions scenes for me, like right when I started the book it was like "la di da di da BOOM ACTION SCENE.
- Alina was kind of ...more

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Jun 10, 2021 marina rated it really liked it

Shelves: read-2021

i just feel pure rage right now

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Feb 17, 2022 Ava rated it really liked it

not as good as the first one but still fantastic as per usual

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Jun 12, 2021 Julie rated it liked it

Shelves: books-i-read-in-2021

2.5 stars but rounded up. Better than the first book (S&B had an original premise but bad follow-through) but still not fab. Warning: occasional spoilers below.

I enjoyed observing how Alina, despite her blandness, started integrating into the Grisha world. Lots of fun action, especially at the beginning, and Nikolai was a nice addition. But on to where we all know this is going…

Mal. I WAS ROOTING FOR YOU EVEN OVER THE DARKLING AND NIKOLAI. Sigh. I don’t even know why anymore.

BUT WAIT… I’m not t 2.5 stars but rounded up. Better than the first book (S&B had an original premise but bad follow-through) but still not fab. Warning: occasional spoilers below.

I enjoyed observing how Alina, despite her blandness, started integrating into the Grisha world. Lots of fun action, especially at the beginning, and Nikolai was a nice addition. But on to where we all know this is going…

Mal. I WAS ROOTING FOR YOU EVEN OVER THE DARKLING AND NIKOLAI. Sigh. I don’t even know why anymore.

BUT WAIT… I’m not that mad about it. Actually I understood where Leigh was going with it. Mal went from wonderful, golden boy to angsty, unlikable dickwad because… he’s human. I get it tbh: naive teenage boy with raging hormones watches his best friend (and love of his life apparently) leaving her old life - and him - behind. They were two peas in a pod their entire life and they’ve finally admitted feelings for each other. “Strong feelings” according to the TV show version. AbsoLUTEly he’s jealous, afraid, insecure, selfish... He can’t comprehend the full extent of Alina’s extraordinary power and feels her slipping away into a world he can’t be a part of. He feels displaced and REplaced. So he copes with his emotions by drinking, gambling, and fighting and it all just crumbles from there.

Plus NEITHER of them are capable of communicating with each other, creating all the problems in the first place. Seriously, I can give you the name of a therapist I recommend. It was too dragged out.

Look, it doesn’t mean it’s healthy but it’s life. I mean do readers expect all LIs to be the same? I decided not to give up on him at the end, going into the third book. I almost did though.

What does actually piss me off is that Leigh keeps trying to blur the line with The Darkling. He’s evil. Let him be evil. We all know he doesn’t have a redemption arc and he and Alina don’t fit no matter how sexy he may be. They won’t end up together. Let’s get over it and move on.

Third book is better btw. ...more

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Apr 14, 2022 mishu rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Me pareció denso, con relleno innecesario y muchas idas y vueltas que no resolvían nada.
Desde el gran inicio introductorio que es el primer libro este no se me hizo menos pesado, una lastima.

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