the Grishaverse – Cannonball Read 17

“The world might crumble, but Nikolai Lantsov would be holding up the ceiling with one hand and plucking a speck of dirt from his lapel with the other when it all went to ruin.”

Rule of Wolves (King of Scars, #2) by Leigh Bardugo

June 21, 2021 by narfna Leave a Comment

This was actually a really great ending (for now?), except for this one thing that I hated. It also managed to change my mind about several things I thought I didn’t like about the last book, and several plot twists took me completely by surprise, both of which are quite the feats! This review won’t make sense, and I’m not even going to try to make it make sense, if you haven’t read the previous books in this series and Six of Crows. Just a […]

Great author forcing herself into the confines of a genre=middling book.

Shadow and Bone (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #1) by Leigh Bardugo

December 3, 2019 by narfna Leave a Comment

Two things: 1. Not really sure why this is called Shadow and Bone? Sounds very dramatic, but not super relevant to actual plot or theme. Things with “bone” in the title were very in in 2012, I guess? 2. Very glad this series wasn’t my first exposure to Bardugo’s writing. I said this in a Goodreads status update, but although it’s not badly written, it’s nothing special either. Pretty standard YA fantasy with attending tropes and such, with flairs here and there of interesting worldbuilding. […]

A promising start to a new series

King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo

May 12, 2019 by Malin Leave a Comment

Spoiler warning! While this is the start of a new series, it does follow on directly from Leigh Bardugo’s Grisha trilogy and her Six of Crows duology. While you will understand the plot fine if you haven’t read the previous books, you WILL be spoiled for events in both series. Spoilers may also appear in this review. Proceed at your own risk. From Goodreads, because I finished the audiobook two months ago (sigh): Nikolai Lantsov has always had a gift for the impossible. No one knows what he endured in […]

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