A review by noorandbooks
Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo

4.0

I have to finish the trilogy but I have high feelings that this might be my favorite Shadow & Bone book...
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.
"I didn't go alone."
"She went alone."
BUT THE FANTASY!!! It was refreshing, it was destructive, it was that long Lady Gaga quote.
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)