Book Review: Shadow and Bone By Leigh Bardugo
***BOOK REVIEW***
Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
(The Shadow and Bone Trilogy #1)
This world is fantastic, I am in love with it all. I am still getting my head around all the different aspects and I love that! The characters are so complex, I enjoy not knowing what a character will do next. It is so hard to write this without spoilers. There were so many frustrating situations but it was still so exciting. Twists and turns when you think everything is going fine… and when you think there will be a twist there isn’t! Absolutely recommend this book, I’m moving onto the next in the trilogy as soon as I can. ★★★★.5
See below for synopsis:
Surrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters who feast on human flesh. Now its fate may rest on the shoulders of one lonely refugee.
Alina Starkov has never been good at anything. But when her regiment is attacked on the Fold and her best friend is brutally injured, Alina reveals a dormant power that saves his life—a power that could be the key to setting her war-ravaged country free. Wrenched from everything she knows, Alina is whisked away to the royal court to be trained as a member of the Grisha, the magical elite led by the mysterious Darkling.
Yet nothing in this lavish world is what it seems. With darkness looming and an entire kingdom depending on her untamed power, Alina will have to confront the secrets of the Grisha . . . and the secrets of her heart.