4.34 AVERAGE

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
adventurous challenging dark lighthearted medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

miss bardugo drop the next book don't be shy
adventurous dark emotional funny sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Kinda long, but better than the first. I don’t know how I feel about Nikolai and who he ends up with. This book was amazing. How I will miss the Grishaverse(until Leigh Bardugo hopefully comes out with another Grishaverse book). Not 5 stars because( and I hate to say this) Nina kinda slowed it down.*cries*

I love this soooo muchhhhh

My only issue is that there were some edititng mistakes in this (dont know if its just my copy or like all of them) like some words would be spelled in multiple words(?) E.g plea sure (pleasure) or del e gate (delegate) but that doesnt really effect my enjoyment of this masterpiece.
adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

first 2 thirds of the book is like 3 stars for me but the last part gets 4 stars

Who frickin knew I'd love Zoya so much by the end of this story. Nikolai is much more loveable as a secondary character and not primary. Nina is done damn dirty, tho. Hanne is still pancake-flat and boring to me. Also Darkling retribution <3

The war and politic bits are really repetitive, the Triumvirate have the same conversation about war, treaties, and plans maybe 10 times. Oh nooo, we're at war with Shu and Fjerda, who can we trust, oh nooo there a bombs, oh no Ravka has no resources, wahhh. I'd be reading it and be like....didn't we have this conversation 50 pages ago already??? I appreciated sneaking the Crows in, tho!!!