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Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo
3.0

“I am not ruined. I am ruination.”

I have deeply mixed feeling about this book. What I loved: the side characters, confident/powerful Alina, any scene with Genya, when Alina & Co we’re going through the dresses, and of course Nikolai.

Didn’t like: Mal, I never got the appeal of the Darkling he felt very one dimensional, and what was that ending??

I really liked some of the surprises the book delivered but overall it was underwhelming.