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snoopydoo77's review against another edition
4.0
Now that I sit back and write the review and must decide on a rating and what to say I realize how much of a love- hate relationship I had with this book.
I really, really love the Grishaverse that Bardugo created in this and Six of Crows.
This book while so good and a lot of happened also seemed not much happened, or not much new,. But yet there was a lot of things, new things that happened and yet it gave me a bit of déjà vu from book one.
A lot of time we spend in court, learning new things and getting ready for the big war with the Darkling. At court we see some familiar faces and find out their fate from the veers in last book.
Now to the characters.
I really enjoyed the Darkling for the most part last book and some in this but I come to the point where I’m just” …mmm ugh, yeah no” I don’t totally dislike him but defiantly don’t love him.
Mal. I really wanted to like him , I really did, I tried so hard and after all he gave up and lost for Alina I just wanted to like him, but I can’t ….. I really, really can’t. I’m not even sure why I dislike him. I just do him and his whiny behavior.
Alina is another one that I can’t stand, she is selfish (she says she isn’t but she totally is), she is power-hungry and can’t even be honest with herself it seems. The only thing for me, that she had going for her was her humor and snark.
Now the two people I care about the most in this entire series so far.
Genya, we don’t see too much of her but that didn’t matter I still lover her and hope we get more of her next book.
And someone new, Nikolai. I really enjoyed Nikolai from the very first time we meet him, and hopefully we learn a lot more about him in next book. I love that he has so many layers to him but also felt bad for him at times.
Tolya and Tamar are also high up on my favorite list and hope to see more. While I would love to say the the end was surprising and shocking it really wasn’t. I saw it coming from the half way mark of the book .
Overall, love the magic and world and can’t get enough of the Grisha world. Love Nikolai and Genya and a few others but really could care less what happens to Mal, Alina and maybe even the Darkling, but I still like him better than Alina.
I have a hard time rating this, but I think I go with 4 . I had some dislikes, yes but overall I still really enjoyed it.
4 ★
katjathehedgehog's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
judeandolin's review against another edition
4.0
Review to come after my brain reassembles.
samrosetouzy's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
enartz's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
9klar8's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
noorandbooks's review against another edition
4.0
Tentative, frightened, but it still sounded suspiciously like hope.First off NIKOLAI (heart emojis, keyboard slams, lots of 'oohs' and 'ahhs' from the crowd) IS SUCH A JOY TO HAVE IN THE CLASS, I HOPE HE GOES ON TO SUCCEED. Seriously, he's just so fun and hard to read and I really, really hope Alina doesn't get with him because like... hiiiiiiiii
I do hope Mal slams his head through a door. The show couldn't save him this time. He was just an ass. BUT ALINA, dare I say, she's more interesting? I don't know, there's something about watching her slow descent into power madness that is just so. Refreshing.
I felt a bright thorn of resentment. I wept with rage that I would have to live at all.Bardugo's signature grip on the narrative is slowly beginning to come in and just. I love a good fantasy-war story. And I am a liar if I say this wasn't good... The war tensions, the meetings, they were all amazing... AND THE ENDING. Y'all can hate it, and that's great, because that means there's more of it to go around for me
"Tell me you didn't go alone," he said to me.BUT THE FANTASY!!! It was refreshing, it was destructive, it was that long Lady Gaga quote.
"I didn't go alone."
"She went alone."
This was not the Small Science. This was magic, something ancient, the making at the heart of the world. It was terrifying, limitless. No wonder the Darkling hungered for it all.okay Alina I see you I may slightly like you okay okay (Nikolaiii hiiiii)
rlulwa's review against another edition
4.0
Mal is basically an ass, Alina is a badass, and Nikolai is flawless throughout the whole novel.
silvia_gio's review against another edition
4.0
If the first volume did not strike me particularly (maybe for the characters - flat!-, maybe for a protagonist mostly intent on complaining herself, maybe for too many clichés), I must admit that I changed my mind with this second volume.
In this second volume Alina shows herself more aware of her powers, torn between the desire for a life on the sidelines and making the right choice and acting to save her country from the lust of for power and revenge that moves the antagonist (I know! cliché! I said that the book is better than the first one, not that it is perfect!). Anyway, the protagonists act on the basis of reasoned and conscious choices, whether it is simply having to choose between the lesser evil, whether they are trying to extricate themselves between family feuds and political propaganda or, more trivially, between love and duty( and it's not not such an obvious detail when we talk about Young adult books. Unfortunately).
In this second volume even the action becomes wider in some parts, though concentrated mainly at the beginning and at the end of the book.
Although Siege and Storm suffers from the problem that afflicts all the central volumes of a trilogy, whereby the story leads by leaving various questions open and offering more questions than answers, I suggest to all those who have faced the first book or who are uncertain whether to continue in the reading this series (and I guess there are very few, because I realize that I am perhaps one of the last 10 people in the whole world who has not read it before, sigh! my fault!), to give this a chance and continue reading. In conclusion .. even if it is not a perfect book (some rabbit popped out of the hat at the right point, some stereotypical characters etc.), the reading runs fast and pleasant. I hope you enjoy this volume as much as I do! Recomended !(expecially for the reylo fans :) )