A review by jadeisabelle
Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Siege and Storm picks up right where Shadow and Bone left off, and oof Alina is having a rough time this whole book. I just want Alina and Mal to be happy but Alina's Grisha powers and her need to have all the amplifiers to take down the Darkling are getting in the way. Mal is just trying to be there for her and she never asks what he wants :(. 
We finally meet Nikolai in this book and wowie I see the hype for this guy, he definitely made this book more enjoyable for me overall, I mean he's cute, he's funny and he has great military strategies what's not to love?
After I finish the next book I think I'll read the Nikolai series, wowie he's honestly the best character in this series. 
The plot was a lot of moving from place to place and expanding the world which I found was kind of slow. Despite that, I finished this book in 5 days, and I find that this is a fantasy series that's easy to get into and easy to understand. Also literally every male that Alina has interacted with has tried to use her in some way, I don't like it. 
As I've already finished Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom, I enjoyed the cameo of Jesper that popped up, and I can better appreciate Sturmhond's appearance in Crooked Kingdom (if you know you know) now that I know more about him. 
My girl Genya deserves so much better than what she got in this book, despite her choices I still want her to be happy and feel loved :(. 
Overall I'd give Siege and Storm 3 stars again, I love Nikolai, didn't love Malina being annoying and the Darkling being a creep again. 

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