A review by writervid
Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

 Reread. I think the most glaring things as I reread it are the necessity of Nikolai and how much I positively adore him and how utterly awful Mal is. 

Mal's behavior in this book makes the ending of Ruin and Rising that much harder to bear.

 Mal, as he has done from book 1, stunts Alina's character growth over his own pettiness and jealousy over her powers. The pacing is slower here than it was in book 1, but in many ways it feels that plot progression has slowed as well. That being said? I deeply enjoyed my reread of it.