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A review by stressedspidergirl
The Grisha Trilogy by Leigh Bardugo
4.0
This was a really solid story for me.
The ending is what really made it sink in and hit a different way, and watching Alina and Mal and their struggles, and everything that they go through, how she falls for the Darkling and his power without really falling for him, her suppressing her gift without knowing making her sick, hunting the amplifiers.
But what got me was the ending. The way it talks about how their life wasn't perfect, but they lived, and isn't that enough? Whenever a book has an ending like that, where maybe it's not happily ever after, but the characters who really didn't have any control over their lives are able to claim some, it sucker punches me in the gut every single time. They carved out a life. They changed their fate and their future, and they found something for themselves after not being able to -throughout all these horrible hardships and all this pain. I prefer this trilogy over the six of crows duet, but I do like all the novels by Bardugo.
The ending is what really made it sink in and hit a different way, and watching Alina and Mal and their struggles, and everything that they go through, how she falls for the Darkling and his power without really falling for him, her suppressing her gift without knowing making her sick, hunting the amplifiers.
But what got me was the ending. The way it talks about how their life wasn't perfect, but they lived, and isn't that enough? Whenever a book has an ending like that, where maybe it's not happily ever after, but the characters who really didn't have any control over their lives are able to claim some, it sucker punches me in the gut every single time. They carved out a life. They changed their fate and their future, and they found something for themselves after not being able to -throughout all these horrible hardships and all this pain. I prefer this trilogy over the six of crows duet, but I do like all the novels by Bardugo.