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3.71 AVERAGE
3.71 AVERAGE
6,5/10
Es medio raro el libro. El final me parece creepy.
El principio me gusta y el final es más interesante, el medio es a lo que le falta algo. Siento como que no hay un problema. Esta como que muy incompleto , muy vacío
Hay algo que destacó es al personaje de Nikolai. Lo adoro. También me gusta Sturmhond. Me gusta como piensan, Actúan, hablan, me gusta la astucia de ambos.
MAL: Todo el mundo lo odia. “Que molesta mucho”, “que es tóxico” ,”que esto” “que lo otro”. Pero denle un respiro. Tiene un gran peso sobre sus hombros y siempre hace lo MEJOR por Alina. Además, de por sí él es muy duro con el mismo. Yo personalmente no lo detesto, me cae bien. En el primer libro me gustaba más y sentí que en este le falto un toque desarrollo. Me gusto que se reflejaban sus inseguridades pero hubo un punto que me canso. No se. Simplemente siento que le falta personalidad.
Alina: no me gusta. Ni en el primer libro me gusto. Es como CÁLLATE, no te podes no dar cuenta de lo que está pasando. Es una egoísta.
Es medio raro el libro. El final me parece creepy.
El principio me gusta y el final es más interesante, el medio es a lo que le falta algo. Siento como que no hay un problema. Esta como que muy incompleto , muy vacío
Hay algo que destacó es al personaje de Nikolai. Lo adoro. También me gusta Sturmhond. Me gusta como piensan, Actúan, hablan, me gusta la astucia de ambos.
MAL: Todo el mundo lo odia. “Que molesta mucho”, “que es tóxico” ,”que esto” “que lo otro”. Pero denle un respiro. Tiene un gran peso sobre sus hombros y siempre hace lo MEJOR por Alina. Además, de por sí él es muy duro con el mismo. Yo personalmente no lo detesto, me cae bien. En el primer libro me gustaba más y sentí que en este le falto un toque desarrollo. Me gusto que se reflejaban sus inseguridades pero hubo un punto que me canso. No se. Simplemente siento que le falta personalidad.
Alina: no me gusta. Ni en el primer libro me gusto. Es como CÁLLATE, no te podes no dar cuenta de lo que está pasando. Es una egoísta.
The second book in this series is pretty decent! It is a medium pace, but it picked up towards the end. The ending of the book is perfection and it is the best part.
The new characters make the story more enjoyable. I think Tamar and Tolya are a great addition to Alina’s team. Sturmhond is also a great addition; his humor matches Alina’s pretty well. To be honest, I found Mal to be quite annoying in this book.
The magical elements are pretty neat and not overwhelming. I like that they learn to use Alina’s abilities in new ways. The Darkling’s magic is nifty as well. I am looking forward to finishing this series.
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The new characters make the story more enjoyable. I think Tamar and Tolya are a great addition to Alina’s team. Sturmhond is also a great addition; his humor matches Alina’s pretty well. To be honest, I found Mal to be quite annoying in this book.
The magical elements are pretty neat and not overwhelming. I like that they learn to use Alina’s abilities in new ways. The Darkling’s magic is nifty as well. I am looking forward to finishing this series.
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I want to start this review by saying that I almost DNF'd this book at 160 pages because of how slow it was, but I decided to pick it up and finish the series before the TV show airs this year. Upon finishing Seige and Storm, however, I've decided the final book in the trilogy, Ruin and Rising, will not be on my TBR this year. Or ever.
[Minor spoilers below, proceed with caution.]
Everything that I liked in Shadow and Bone - the cool magic system, satisfying worldbuilding, political intrigue, strong female friendship, GENYA - was missing from Siege and Storm, and it impacted my reading experience in a big way. In the end, the only reason I even finished it was to get it off my currently reading.
I think if the author had focussed more on developing Alina's character and relationships, rather than focussing the whole book on building up to an action sequence that really wasn't all that satisfying, she could have had a halfway decent book. Everyone is always raving about Nikolai, and I don't know if he makes more of an impression in the other Grisha series, but although he offered a few sporadic moments of comic relief (reminding me slightly of a knock-off Will Herondale), his addition to the cast of characters resulted in the book feeling very male-dominated. I felt like Alina's actions were constantly driven by men, be that the Darkling, Mal, Nikolai, or the King. And, rather than it coming across as her selflessly renouncing her own wants and needs for the good of the kingdom, her actions in this book were almost always a result of her wanting to placate the men in her life. It was tiring, to say the least.
What makes the failures of this book even more frustrating, is that Bardugo had a blindingly obvious direction to go in that would have invoked angst and yearning, that would have highlighted Alina's struggle to separate her morals from her own desires, that could've taken the powerful women we saw in book 1 and placed them at the centre of the series, and it was RIGHT. THERE... In Genya. If we had seen Genya's betrayal from book 1 become the leading arc of Seige and Storm, if Alina had been torn between wanting to save Genya and knowing that the kingdom had to come first, between her fond memories of her and the Hurt that had come from her betrayal, if all the times she offhandedly mentioned Genya's name had been at the forefront of this book and weren't just used as a reminder that she still existed so the ending didn't come out of left field, this book could have been amazing.
It might just be me and my desire for all the books I read to pass the Bechdel test, but it was just so boooooooooring having men take up all the space in this story. Give me Genya, give me Baghra...give me Zoya, for God's sake!!! I want to see female friendship, and female rivalry, and female camaraderie; women fighting together and fighting each other, and the complicated intricacies of their relationships; and it makes me sad and disappointed whenever I don't get that in a book, because how HARD is it to make a female character whose destiny isn't tied to a MAN?
The one shining light in this book, and the only man I support in this entire series, is Tolya. And it's thanks to him that I'm not giving this book 1 star. That said, I sincerely hope I never have to read a book this bland again.
[Minor spoilers below, proceed with caution.]
Everything that I liked in Shadow and Bone - the cool magic system, satisfying worldbuilding, political intrigue, strong female friendship, GENYA - was missing from Siege and Storm, and it impacted my reading experience in a big way. In the end, the only reason I even finished it was to get it off my currently reading.
I think if the author had focussed more on developing Alina's character and relationships, rather than focussing the whole book on building up to an action sequence that really wasn't all that satisfying, she could have had a halfway decent book. Everyone is always raving about Nikolai, and I don't know if he makes more of an impression in the other Grisha series, but although he offered a few sporadic moments of comic relief (reminding me slightly of a knock-off Will Herondale), his addition to the cast of characters resulted in the book feeling very male-dominated. I felt like Alina's actions were constantly driven by men, be that the Darkling, Mal, Nikolai, or the King. And, rather than it coming across as her selflessly renouncing her own wants and needs for the good of the kingdom, her actions in this book were almost always a result of her wanting to placate the men in her life. It was tiring, to say the least.
What makes the failures of this book even more frustrating, is that Bardugo had a blindingly obvious direction to go in that would have invoked angst and yearning, that would have highlighted Alina's struggle to separate her morals from her own desires, that could've taken the powerful women we saw in book 1 and placed them at the centre of the series, and it was RIGHT. THERE... In Genya. If we had seen Genya's betrayal from book 1 become the leading arc of Seige and Storm, if Alina had been torn between wanting to save Genya and knowing that the kingdom had to come first, between her fond memories of her and the Hurt that had come from her betrayal, if all the times she offhandedly mentioned Genya's name had been at the forefront of this book and weren't just used as a reminder that she still existed so the ending didn't come out of left field, this book could have been amazing.
It might just be me and my desire for all the books I read to pass the Bechdel test, but it was just so boooooooooring having men take up all the space in this story. Give me Genya, give me Baghra...give me Zoya, for God's sake!!! I want to see female friendship, and female rivalry, and female camaraderie; women fighting together and fighting each other, and the complicated intricacies of their relationships; and it makes me sad and disappointed whenever I don't get that in a book, because how HARD is it to make a female character whose destiny isn't tied to a MAN?
The one shining light in this book, and the only man I support in this entire series, is Tolya. And it's thanks to him that I'm not giving this book 1 star. That said, I sincerely hope I never have to read a book this bland again.
challenging
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
adventurous
dark
fast-paced
Bardzo podobne odczucia w porównaniu do pierwszej części, może ta jest minimalnie lepsza
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
First off, I absolutely LOVE Nikolai lantsov, obsessed with him.
I really liked how it got back into the action right away, Leigh easily could have written a couple chapters of mal and Alina hanging out in novyi zem before the dark king found them but it all happened in chapter 1 which was great.
I think Alina in this book was portrayed really well, how she slowly went from hating the idea of the amplifiers to craving the third one. It happened so slowly that I didn’t really notice but it’s a cool detail how by the end of siege and storm she’s a different character and it’s because of the second amplifier and her need for the third. So interesting
I really liked how it got back into the action right away, Leigh easily could have written a couple chapters of mal and Alina hanging out in novyi zem before the dark king found them but it all happened in chapter 1 which was great.
I think Alina in this book was portrayed really well, how she slowly went from hating the idea of the amplifiers to craving the third one. It happened so slowly that I didn’t really notice but it’s a cool detail how by the end of siege and storm she’s a different character and it’s because of the second amplifier and her need for the third. So interesting