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Jul 28, 2018
Virginia Ronan ♥ Herondale ♥
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”I’ve been waiting for you a long time, Alina,” he said. “You and I are going to change the world.”
Leigh’s cooking receipt for “Shadow and Bone”:
1 naïve and rather plain looking heroine
1 handsome childhood friend
1 dark, mysterious and irresistible villain
1 close friend that’s kind of an outsider as well
A pinch of magic
A hint of insecurity
A handful of unexpected events
And half a teaspoon of scheming and betrayal
To get the full effect you have to mix up all the ingredients and let the dough rise f ...more
Leigh’s cooking receipt for “Shadow and Bone”:
1 naïve and rather plain looking heroine
1 handsome childhood friend
1 dark, mysterious and irresistible villain
1 close friend that’s kind of an outsider as well
A pinch of magic
A hint of insecurity
A handful of unexpected events
And half a teaspoon of scheming and betrayal
To get the full effect you have to mix up all the ingredients and let the dough rise f ...more
So, I've been putting off this review mostly for lazyness reasons. So I decided to do a quick "What I liked- didn't like" type of thing.
What I liked:
- The world. I thought it was really interesting, it had a different kind of atmosphere to it. I don't know, it just felt different than other fantasy worlds I've read about before. Even though they're all gonna have some similarities, this had a certain uniqueness to it. Maybe because it's based off of Russia, and you don't usually see fantasy book ...more
What I liked:
- The world. I thought it was really interesting, it had a different kind of atmosphere to it. I don't know, it just felt different than other fantasy worlds I've read about before. Even though they're all gonna have some similarities, this had a certain uniqueness to it. Maybe because it's based off of Russia, and you don't usually see fantasy book ...more
“The Darkling slumped back in his chair. “Fine,” he said with a weary shrug. “Make me your villain.”
This review will contain spoilers but are marked don't worry ..
Anyways..... this book series was written before the Six of Crows series and lets say the author outdid herself out there because while this book seems like any other YA ... the latter was better, more realistic, and deeper in conveying meaning....Shadow and Bone was a bit shallow the author did not go inside a character's mind and ...more
Shadow and Bone was so freaking good. Amazing storyline, wonderful characters and unexpected plot twists.
The love triangle was kinda weird because I liked both the guys and I was switching from one to the other till the revelation (view spoiler)
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4.5 Stars
Dec 15, 2013
Maggie
rated it
it was amazing
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best_fantasy,
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series,
on-my-library,
fantasy-paranormal,
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Oct 03, 2017
jobeth
marked it as to-read
Nov 02, 2017
TeaAndBooks
marked it as to-read
