A review by chaicedony
Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? N/A
  • Strong character development? N/A
  • Loveable characters? N/A
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

leaving some of my fave quotes here:

“I … I don’t understand half of what goes on around me. I don’t get jokes or sunsets or poetry, but I know metal. Beauty was your armor. Fragile stuff, all show. But what’s inside you? That’s steel. It’s brave and unbreakable. And it doesn’t need fixing.”

“I am not ruined. I am ruination.”

“Know that I loved you. Know that it was not enough.”

this is obviously my favorite book in the trilogy, it has a certain grip on me that i can’t explain