Original title: Shadow and Bone
Year published: 2012
Published by: Indigo
Number of pages: 308
First sentence: “The servants called them malenchki,
little ghosts, because they were the smallest and the youngest, and because
they haunted the Duke’s house like giggling phantoms, darting in and out of
rooms, hiding in the cupboards to eavesdrop, sneaking into the kitchen to steal
the last of the summer peaches.”
Plot: Alina Starkov is a mapmaker in the
King’s army. When she along with her group ventures out into the cursed place
known as the Fold something happens.
Alina is whisked away by a man, if you can call him a man, known as the
Darkling to train with others like her. She soon understands that things are
not always as they seem.
My thoughts: I did not think I was going to like
it, my expectations weren’t that high. But I’m not sorry I read it, I’m only
sorry I didn’t read it sooner. I loved this book. Leigh Bardugo has created her
own world, a world I fell in love with. Hell she even came up with a new
language, it kind of sounds like Russian, which was what I first thought but I
found out it wasn’t. And the Grisha, wow. I love reading about the powers they
have and how they look. I want to be Grisha as well, haha. I really liked the
character of Alina, she’s so plain, at least the way she looks and I love that
because it’s easier to relate to someone who doesn’t look like a supermodel.
And the Darkling, W-O-W, I totally fell in love with that character, I even had
to google grey quartz because I needed to know what his eye color was, haha. He
was one of those characters who is rumored to be evil but then once you got to
know him he’s actually kind of a nice guy, and then BAM! Yep, totally ruin me
that man did. I would love to see this as a movie and I did read somewhere that
someone had bought the rights to do the movie so let’s hope for it soon!
Favorite quote: “The problem with wanting, is that
it makes us weak”
Like I told you yesterday I got the next book in
the Grisha trilogy; Siege and Storm yesterday, so I’m planning to read that as
soon as I get a chance.
Do I recommend this book? Hell yes! Read it, fall in love with the world, the
language and the Darkling and then let me know what you think.
