lbenanchietti 's review for:

Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo
4.5

Another good book! I may have rated it higher if I read it the right way. I love when things come full circle, like how Alina made Mal promise to kill her and Mal had to do the same in this book. Nikolai is great and I love the found family. A lot of good characters died. The epilogue was my favorite part. It was a beautiful ending (how she starts and ends every book talking about the boy and the girl), but I also felt it was unrealistic how Mal was just fine after merzost was used on him. Sad to leave these characters behind!