A review by seastheday
Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

adventurous dark medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.0


WHEN THE DARKLING SAID THE VIRAL TIKTOK SOUND, “Fine, make me your villain”, I WAS GAGGED.

Anyway, everyone was correct. Six of Crows was infinitely better. I wanted to reserve my opinion on the series after finishing, but this doesn’t even come close to how incredible SOC was. 

The Netflix series is literally this entire first book- almost scene for scene, I swear. I think it did the book justice. If one of my beloved series was done this well, I’d die happy (fyi SOC was NOT done well)

This YA was not horribly young but it was not written for older YA readers. I mean in the way of simpler foreshadowing and over-explaining. YA is such a broad category & there are YA’s that are incredibly written and are definitely for people on the upper range of YA, such as Cruel Prince. And then the lower range of Prison Healer, where EVERYTHING is explained again and again and again. This is definitely smack in the middle. 
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