stay_hydrated 's review for:

Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo

4.0

adventurous fast-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

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All things considered this wrapped up pretty well. I still don’t love that Nikolai was kind of hanging in there to form some weird barely there love triangle.. but I get that he was meant to be loved by fans sense he’s the star of the next duology. Big fan of YA books having some level of nuance to their villains and I think there was some small measure of that with the darklings ending, plus Mal had a nice little comeback here.