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Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo
5.0
4'5*
Excuse me, but who gave miss Leigh Bardugo the right to write such an awesome sequel?!
I already really enjoyed Shadow and Bone, so I was ready to go into Siege and Storm and see how it compares, whilst I was a little nervous going into it because in most series, the second book tends to suffer from middle-book syndrome but this one did Not!
I'm all over the place, I can already feel that my sentences are incoherent and don't make any sense but I genuinely could not care less because I really loved this book.
I'll be talking spoilers, as per usual, don't hate me but I cannot do a spoiler free review.
Siege and Storm eases us into the aftermath of Shadow and Bone, but it doesn't take too long for the action to start, literally in the first chapter the Darkling finds our dear Alina and Mal and chaos ensues, which I absolutely love because this is the second time that Leigh Bardugo has shown me that she doesn't like to waste time with slow chapters, which makes her a brilliant author to me.
The progression of the story was quite nice and smooth, almost everything made sense, although it felt odd and ridiculous to me how easy the sea whip died.. Like It's supposed to be this legendary and mythical creature, but then it dies from getting shot that easily? It didn't make a lot of sense for me, and It's one of the reasons why I decided to take away those 0'5 from the rating.
What I enjoyed about our main villain, is that he's a very complex character. The Darkling is not your one dimensional villain, but he clearly believes that he's doing the right thing, and the way he doesn't exactly hurt (or want to hurt) Alina and Mal shows me that he just wants to do the good thing, even if the good thing is not actually good (does that make sense?)
Mal just kept on losing it in this book, and I honestly do not know how I feel about it? Cause after the incredible Nikolai was introduced, Mal stopped feeling like the main love interest for me, especially after the things he said and did (How dare you kiss Zoya you son of a bitch).
Alina slowly losing it and descending into "madness" was a very nice tough, seeing how influenced she is from using both amplifiers, and I can only assume she'll fully turn heel once she gets the Firebird, It'd make total sense if it happened.
Vasily's arrogance causing the battle scenes was absolutely BRILLIANT!! I loved that so fucking much, the scene where Nikolai is literally making all the sense in the world, then Vasily gets his arm ripped off, fucking fabulous writing.
Then of course, Leigh Bardugo went ahead and wrote the Alina turns dark but not really cause she just wanted to sacrifice herself and take the Darkling with her, which was incredible, too bad Mal interfered cause the series would've ended with book two lol
The cliffhanger was very interesting, Alina losing her powers was a nice touch, adding a little intrigue to Ruin and Rising, getting me excited to read it, even though I most probably shouldn't and I should pick up a contemporary to alleviate myself from all the heavy fantasy I've been reading this month, I guess we'll see.
Excuse me, but who gave miss Leigh Bardugo the right to write such an awesome sequel?!
I already really enjoyed Shadow and Bone, so I was ready to go into Siege and Storm and see how it compares, whilst I was a little nervous going into it because in most series, the second book tends to suffer from middle-book syndrome but this one did Not!
I'm all over the place, I can already feel that my sentences are incoherent and don't make any sense but I genuinely could not care less because I really loved this book.
I'll be talking spoilers, as per usual, don't hate me but I cannot do a spoiler free review.
Siege and Storm eases us into the aftermath of Shadow and Bone, but it doesn't take too long for the action to start, literally in the first chapter the Darkling finds our dear Alina and Mal and chaos ensues, which I absolutely love because this is the second time that Leigh Bardugo has shown me that she doesn't like to waste time with slow chapters, which makes her a brilliant author to me.
The progression of the story was quite nice and smooth, almost everything made sense, although it felt odd and ridiculous to me how easy the sea whip died.. Like It's supposed to be this legendary and mythical creature, but then it dies from getting shot that easily? It didn't make a lot of sense for me, and It's one of the reasons why I decided to take away those 0'5 from the rating.
What I enjoyed about our main villain, is that he's a very complex character. The Darkling is not your one dimensional villain, but he clearly believes that he's doing the right thing, and the way he doesn't exactly hurt (or want to hurt) Alina and Mal shows me that he just wants to do the good thing, even if the good thing is not actually good (does that make sense?)
Mal just kept on losing it in this book, and I honestly do not know how I feel about it? Cause after the incredible Nikolai was introduced, Mal stopped feeling like the main love interest for me, especially after the things he said and did (How dare you kiss Zoya you son of a bitch).
Alina slowly losing it and descending into "madness" was a very nice tough, seeing how influenced she is from using both amplifiers, and I can only assume she'll fully turn heel once she gets the Firebird, It'd make total sense if it happened.
Vasily's arrogance causing the battle scenes was absolutely BRILLIANT!! I loved that so fucking much, the scene where Nikolai is literally making all the sense in the world, then Vasily gets his arm ripped off, fucking fabulous writing.
Then of course, Leigh Bardugo went ahead and wrote the Alina turns dark but not really cause she just wanted to sacrifice herself and take the Darkling with her, which was incredible, too bad Mal interfered cause the series would've ended with book two lol
The cliffhanger was very interesting, Alina losing her powers was a nice touch, adding a little intrigue to Ruin and Rising, getting me excited to read it, even though I most probably shouldn't and I should pick up a contemporary to alleviate myself from all the heavy fantasy I've been reading this month, I guess we'll see.