A review by daameliiie
Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo

5.0

“When people say impossible, they usually mean improbable.”

NIKOLAI LANTSOV PLEASE TAKE ME AS YOUR QUEEN. I would be as dramatic as you, I promise. He is so funny, clever and cute at the same time!!
ALINA I love you so much my heart is going to explode, even if you are a silly little idiot <333 (I swear she is like a cooler, hotter version of me, we could bully pretty boys together.)
Mal, you are simply… boring. You can’t understand Alina? Who cares, she is living her life. Support her. (I understand his drama, but still…)
I still can’t get over what Darklina could have been— Alina deserved a corruption arc, but I guess in the 2010s fans would have been shocked. So we simply got a toxic relationship with creepy scenes where the Darkling appears from the darkness and violates Alina’s consent. #benbarneswouldnever
The plot was… okay? “Siege and Storm” suffers slightly from 2nd book syndrome, but whatever, I only care about the world and the characters.
very subjective 5 stars, because I am attached to the grishaverse, its world and in particular its characters. And Leigh Bardugo’s majestic writing.