I finished Shadow and Bone - for maybe the 3rd time! - on March 13th after starting it on March 11th. I both read my edition of it and listened to the audiobook! I'm going to increase my rating to the full five stars. See the Grishaverse come to life on screen with the Netflix series, Shadow and Bone. Just wait for the daring rogue Nikolai to join the fold in Season 2 — covering explosive events of both Siege and Storm and Ruin and Rising — streaming now!

I was sad that the Darkling survived, but I suppose something more needs to be left for book three!While there are many themes in The Grisha Trilogy, the biggest is the struggle for power. You see it between the three nations - Ravka, Shu Han and Fjerda. You even see it between Alina and the Darkling, Nikolai and his brother and father (the royal family), the Grisha and everyone else. But there’s also Alina’s struggle with herself and her identity. Before she became Grisha and the Sun Summoner, she was an orphan who didn’t fit in anywhere, who was in love with her best friend and wanted something that was just hers and hers alone. Over the course of the story, Alina becomes a person almost completely unrecognizable from who she was when we first met her. She becomes less naive and feeble, becomes much more brutal and strong and Martyr-like than even the Darkling or the Apparat could have expected. Und der große Kampf lief dann ohne wirkliche Vorbereitung nur innerhalb eines Kapitels ab. Gefühlte Zeit war 5 min und schon war das Ende einer ganzen Trilogie da. Viel zu einfach und einfach nur enttäuschend. Das Ende war dann wenigstens etwas nostalgisch und schön. I always love characters who are scarred yet triumphant. Those who wear their scars like jewelry. The Darkling didn't do that, certainly. The scars he bore that not many people paid close enough attention to see and yet has always been there driving his ambition further. He carried the name he game to himself well. And yet there was something about his darkness that drew you in. Maybe because I feel like there is always a darker part of ourselves where we seek comfort and found refuge. Alina felt it too, with the Darkling. That feeling of surety that drew her to him. But I felt it was not just because of the he was an amplier; but because they were the same. Unique in the world. I wondered what would've happened if she stayed by his side, if she trusted herself to help him become a better man. I always believed that some of his actions were sincere well hidden in his shadows. Set in a fascinating, unique world rich with detail, Shadow and Bone was unlike anything I've ever read. Alina is a clever, sympathetic character I will gladly follow into the next installment--which can't come soon enough!" --Veronica Roth, New York Times-bestselling author of Divergent, on Shadow and Bone

I started Siege and Storm on March 14th. I'm currently 25% through it and loving this story! I finished it on March 17th. It was a fantastic story! I loved it!

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Ich bin absolut begeistert von der Reihe und kann dem Hype auf jeden Fall nachvollziehen. Von mir gibt es eine klare Leseempfehlung für alle Fantasyfans! Ich muss sagen ich habe mich sehr gefreut, als ich erfahren habe, dass die berühmt berüchtigte Grisha Reihe als Schuber erscheinen wird. Ich wollte unbedingt erfahren, ob die Reihe den Hype wirklich wert ist und was es mit der allgemeinen Begeisterung auf sich hat.