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Shadow and Bone (Shadow and Bone, #1)

Leigh Bardugo

Start date: January 1, 2025

Finish date: January 31, 2025

Discussion: MODERN / POPULAR READS

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Jan 12, 2020 Christina rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2020, dj-jla-vs-jsa-2020

I avoided reading this book for the longest time because I really wasn't sure I would enjoy it, but I was very pleasantly surprised. I was a bit worried at first because once the main character reaches a certain point in the book I thought it might turn out to be another main character gets thrust in a role she never expected and has to go to a "school" where she is an outsider and there are many people who want to see her fail and make her life miserable and that would be the entire book. And t ...more

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Jan 27, 2020 Lori Murray rated it it was amazing

Shelves: amazon-e_books

Loved it as much as the first 3 times I read it.

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Jan 31, 2019 Denise rated it really liked it · review of another edition

It's the fantasy series I have been waiting for! ...more

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Dec 29, 2022 Marla rated it really liked it

Shelves: adventure, award-winner, series, romance, young-adult, paranormal, recommended-to-me, dystopia, mixed-reviews, wait

3.5 stars. Alina Starkov is an unremarkable orphan and mediocre cartographer who becomes the Sun Summoner and the only hope for saving Ravka. She was best friends with another orphan boy, Malyen "Mal" Oretsev, who is her best friend, her soul mate, a gifted tracker and finds the elusive mythical stag.

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Feb 21, 2016 Lori Murray rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: amazon-books

Forgot to review this Book. I am going to say that when I first saw this book I wasn't sure if I was going to like this book but I am so glad I bought the book, because I was wrong I loved the book. I even bought they other two as soon as I finished this one. I still of course have too finish they other two.

I really love the heroine I thought her love for her best friend was fantastic. Alina I thought was awesome and I don't think I could be brave at all if all of the sudden my life changed so ...more

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Feb 24, 2016 Shinta_read rated it liked it

Shelves: fantasy

I love the cover art. I love the entire setting of the book. I love the idea of the Grisha and of course so drawn to the prince of darkness himself. The female character is well not as smart as I wished a heroine would be but still acceptable. The plot is going too fast, lacking depth. But I still would like to read the second installment.

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Feb 21, 2017 Julia rated it really liked it

Shelves: introducing-great-new-characters, politics, ya, scifi-fantasy, nook, read-women-2017

I really liked this one too. I think her writing has improved over the books, but her characters were fully formed and flawed from the beginning. Kudos!

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