Review: Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
Shadow and Bone
by Leigh Bardugo
Series: The Grisha Trilogy (#1)
Published by: Henry Holt and Co.
June 5th, 2012
Genre: Fantasy
Format: eBook
Source: Purchased
Rating: 4 Stars
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.
From the moment I opened this book, I was sucked into the world of the Grisha and I couldn't put it down. This book was one surprise after another and I have to say that Bardugo knows how to have readers intrigued.
Alina is just your average girl with an unanswered crush on your average boy and they serve on the Kings First Army, she as a mapmaker and her crush and best friend Mal and a tracker. Their kingdom is divided by a blackness that has monsters on it and they need to cross that darkness as silently as possible without seeing their path to make it out alive.
When things go south and Mal's life is on the line, Alina's hidden Grisha powers come out of her and save the rest of the people traveling with them. From there on out she is separated from her only true friend and thrust into a world she has no clue about and no desire to explore without Mal.
I was socked right and left by all the surprises in this story. I would think one thing and it would be revealed as something else. From my opinion on the Darkling to the "priest" to Baghra. I could not have predicted any of that and I just needed to keep reading to see what other surprises were in store for readers.
I could not be more happy with the story and I can't wait to see how all this concludes.
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