Shadow and Bone (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #1)

by Leigh Bardugo

Then he sighed and said, “One hundred and twenty. Give or take.”

Age gap.😉

“Alina Starkov.” I jumped and whirled. “Who’s there?” I gasped. The Apparat emerged from the long shadows by the door. “Did I startle you?” he asked.

Uhm. Yeah dog. Creeper.

“I’ve been waiting for you a long time, Alina,” he said. “You and I are going to change the world.”

Totally nonchalant.

The Darkling’s mouth quirked in the suggestion of a grin but his eyes were serious. “Did you really think I was done with you?”

So intense!!!

“I’m not afraid to die, Alina,” he said in that cold, steady voice that seemed so alien to me. “But I’d like to give us a fighting chance. We have to go after the stag.”

This girl is being led around by the nose by every man in this book.. lame.

“I’m sorry it took me so long to see you, Alina. But I see you now.”

Honestly? Hard pass.