It gets a lot of hate, but I think it’s great. I don’t want to say anything else because I don’t want to spoil anything, but you can look up the back blurb online. The only thing I can think is that maybe she is building him and his role up for a future book since she is continuing with this world in her next series.So basically shadow and bone takes place in the Grishaverse where the Grisha which have powers rule over the regular class. The weakest part of the trilogy for me was theĪpparat and how he just sort of fizzled out at the end and was sort of a non-entity. I love how the trilogy bookends itself with the beginning and ending chapters.Īnd I liked how both Alina and Mal end up without their powers at the end. I loved the topography of the land and the places she created. I think Leigh created a really rich and interesting world in the trilogy. Yup, that's my ending and I'm sticking with it! the Darkling so faked his death just like he has done a ton of times before and he lives. I felt the ending was the right one and it was clear that was the story Leigh had always intended to tell.but it wasn't what I wanted.Īctually, I was all kinds of sad at the end of R&R until some 13 year old goodreads fangirls showed me the errors of my ways and helped me see what really happened at the end of the book and then I was okay with how things worked out. Woot!)Īnd even though I'm not satisfied with the ending, I think it's the right one, through and through.This is pretty much how I felt. (Also, I feel obliged to point out that the BWB collectively got a shout out in the acknowledgements. On the one hand, I wanted Alina's sacrifice to be even more massive than it was, but I think I'm ultimately okay with it because he lost his tracking power and, well, the epilogue was just lovely.īy the way, is this a spoiler thread? I did the spoiler tags on that specific bit just to be safe, but I figure if we are going to talk openly about the events of the book, should there be a SPOILERS type notice in the thread title? Ok, so I have mixed feelings about the fact Mal survived. This was the latest in a recent run of books I enjoyed so much that I wanted my subway ride to last a little longer so I could keep reading.

And while some characters do die (some quite horribly), even the ones who live do so as massively scarred (physically or otherwise) individuals.

It's the final volume of a trilogy and there's a pretty pervasive sense of 'EVERYONE MIGHT DIE!' through the entire story. I went into this not having a private plan for how things should turn out and trusted Leigh to tell the story she wanted to tell, and I think she did and did so very well. Reading the reviews on Goodreads, it seemed like a lot of readers loved or hated it depending on who they expected/desired/desperately wished Alina would end up with (i.e. I went searching for a thread on this earlier today, having just finished the book last night.

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