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Shadow and Bone (Shadow and Bone, #1)

Leigh Bardugo

Start date: April 1, 2019

Finish date: April 30, 2019

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Jun 15, 2018 Ari ☾ rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: owned, fantasy, fantasy-romance, 2018-reads, favorites

5 Stars

Wow, Shadow and Bone was amazing! I loved this book so much!

It starts off with Alina and company trying to cross the Fold, which is just pitch black and evil and full of monsters. But while they are crossing their regiment is cut off by the monsters. Strong emotion causes Alina to explode magical sunlight (the monsters, volcra, don’t like the light) Which marks her as the only Sun Summoner.

She is then taken to Os Alta to be trained as a Grisha. The people look at her as a savior because 5 Stars

Wow, Shadow and Bone was amazing! I loved this book so much!

It starts off with Alina and company trying to cross the Fold, which is just pitch black and evil and full of monsters. But while they are crossing their regiment is cut off by the monsters. Strong emotion causes Alina to explode magical sunlight (the monsters, volcra, don’t like the light) Which marks her as the only Sun Summoner.

She is then taken to Os Alta to be trained as a Grisha. The people look at her as a savior because she would be the only one who would be able to cleanse the Fold. The Darkling also believes this. Or does he.

The first half of the novel is Alina trying to get accustomed to Grisha life. Also trying overcome her extreme lack of self confidence and self worth. I really enjoyed reading about Grisha magic systems and the political structure of the Grisha. Genya was literally the best throughout the book.
After Alina has a super epiphany. (view spoiler)
So then it is her mastering her magic, and boy let me tell you. I wAS SO PROUD OF HER THROUGHOUT THIS PORTION OF THE BOOK. Like I was like you go girl get that self confidence.
Then a bunch of shit hits the fan, that would be too spoilerly to talk about.

Okay so loved Alina, loved The Darkling (he was such a good antihero, like please give me more of the dark brooding evil guy), and hated Mal. I wanted to hit him over the head with a tree. Like he comes in being all jealous about the off chance that Alina and The Darkling could have had a thing. Like bitch, please. At the beginning of the book all you cared about was scoring.

The writing in this book was fucking qualityyyy. Pro ass world building, although gotta admit at the start had to look at the map. Thank heck for that map at the beginning.
Cannot wait to read the second one. ...more

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May 13, 2016 Cindee rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: february-2022-tbr, march-2022-tbr

I loved this book so much no idea why I lost interest all those years ago this was a well written and a very good story. I loved the characters especially Alina and Mal I liked their romance it was well written Alina is an interesting character that got involved in something that took her awhile to understand she other than that is a strong character worth rooting for. I really loved the plot it started with a not so good situation that lead to something even worse with our main characters havin ...more

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