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RoRo
Mar 23, 2021 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
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Saraf Tarisha
"𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙗𝙡𝙚𝙢 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙨, 𝙉𝙞𝙠𝙤𝙡𝙖𝙞? 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙖𝙡𝙬𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙚𝙣𝙙 𝙪𝙥 𝙙𝙚𝙖𝙙. "

I liked 𝙎𝙚𝙞𝙜𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙢.(But, less than Shadow and Bone) Leigh Bardugo wrote another nice story. I liked the new characters which she introduced in this book.

Nikolai made me liked this book more.... (Without him the rating would have been less) I still like the Darkling but he doesn't feature much in this book. And I don't know if I like him more or Nikolai more.

I loved the plot ...... and how because of Vasily's
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Lia (Taylor's Version)
3.75*

ummmm
okay

I love Nikolai
can't wait for season 2 :)
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Diya
Jun 22, 2021 rated it liked it
3.5 stars.
Nibras ⚡️
3.75 stars. minor spoilers.

Oh well.. where to start with this one.
On the one hand I really enjoyed it; I´m a sucker for cocky, clever and sarcastic characters like Nikolai so he made this book quite pleasant for me.
I enjoyed the dynamics of the different Grisha- orders working together and I especially liked Alinas character developing with her powers and her ambitions rising.

On the other hand I truly didn´t enjoy the way the plot was build. For example the beginning seemed super rushed, then a
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jenna ♡ (fullybooked)
"The less you say, the more weight your words will carry." ...more
jas kaur wilkhu-degpal
Boring Boring Boring 😴
M.C. Clay
Jan 07, 2021 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: own-physical
Cardan's_lover
Jan 24, 2021 rated it really liked it
Riley
May 31, 2021 rated it liked it
amanda ☽
Mar 03, 2021 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Sophia Swasey
Feb 10, 2021 marked it as to-read
Leilaniiii
Feb 11, 2021 marked it as to-read
✶ claire ✶
Mar 16, 2021 rated it liked it
Ines
Apr 02, 2021 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Jelena Čulić
Jun 05, 2021 rated it really liked it
Lili_Recs
Apr 30, 2021 rated it really liked it
Shelves: fantasy, old-fantasy
June
May 05, 2021 marked it as to-read
Sanya
May 28, 2021 rated it liked it
Talkbookish
Jun 27, 2021 rated it really liked it
Taif
Jun 28, 2021 rated it really liked it
Shelves: fantasy, hyped-books, ya
JJ
Aug 16, 2021 rated it liked it