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At first I thought this was going to be really good. We start with the sad, pale war orphans roaming like animals or ghosts through the vast manor house and eavesdropping on servants. Then the as-yet-unexplained "Grisha" show up with their mysterious tests and unknown powers. Then we jump forward a decade and see our orphans grown up, or nearly, and enlisted, marching through a cold, grim land that seems perpetually at war. They must brave the almost-impossible crossing of the Unsea, a region of
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Nov 08, 2016
Jessica
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it was amazing
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fantasy
Ah. So this is why everyone has been telling me to read this series! So delightful! So exciting! So creative! I can't wait to get the next one and dive in!
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This didn't do much for me. Part of the draw is supposed to be the pseudo-Russian setting, which was fine, but our heroine didn't fit in with her setting at all. She acted and talked like a typical, snarky American teenager in a YA set in an American high school. I found it impossible to believe that a lowly, Russian peasant would be so instantly comfortable bantering with the nation's most powerful wizard, especially one with a murderous reputation. She didn't have much of a personality at all,
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Leigh Bardugo is one of my favorite bad-asses.
I like this world and the Grisha powers -- the "small science." This is good, solid fantasy with the fault that one plot point is revealed through exposition and not action.
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Fantasy boiled down to its most simplistic elements, like in a Disney movie -- reluctant heroine, best friend who's blind to her more-than-friendship feelings, rapid-fire dialogue, makeover scene, training scene, etc. But the writing was good and the pacing was great, and there were one or two twists, especially in the second half, that I didn't see coming. Made for great sick-bed reading. Disney should make it into a movie -- really everything that happens could be condensed into about 30 minut
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Just loved this. Such fantastic world building and a heroine that is likable and real.
A three star book--not bad, just kind of standard--elevated by an excellent audiobook. The reader brought a lot of character to what's otherwise a pretty standard fantasy novel.
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