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We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary.

Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

May 19, 2022 by Leedock 6 Comments

The second book in the Six of Crows duology is the best book that I have read this year. Now, I REALLY want Bardugo to go back and rewrite the Shadow and Bone books. I want to care about those characters the way that I care about these crazy kids. The, ahem, bones are there in the Shadow and Bonebooks but the depth of the characters is not. I understand that Bardugo grew as a writer but the difference between the first trilogy and this duology is startling. The misfits from Six of […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, cbr14, Fiction, grishaverse, Leigh Bardugo, six of crows duology

Leedock's CBR14 Review No:4 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, cbr14, Fiction, grishaverse, Leigh Bardugo, six of crows duology ·
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I will have you without armor…Or I will not have you at all.

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

May 19, 2022 by Leedock 3 Comments

Okay. This cannot be the same person that wrote the Shadow and Bone trilogy. It just cannot be. While I did like those books, I didn’t love those books. I adore this one. Honestly, I decided to read this first book in the Six of Crows duology just to catch up before watching the Netflix show which apparently blends both series. I had read that these books were better but was flabbergasted by how much better. I don’t mean to harp on Bardugo here but where was this level of writing in the trilogy? […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, cbr14, Fiction, grishaverse, Leigh Bardugo, six of crows duology

Leedock's CBR14 Review No:3 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, cbr14, Fiction, grishaverse, Leigh Bardugo, six of crows duology ·
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“No Mourners, No Funerals”

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

April 4, 2022 by anana Leave a Comment

I picked up (and reviewed) the original Shadow and Bone trilogy after watching the Netflix series. At the time I read in various forums (including, I’m pretty sure, other Cannonball Read reviews) that the Grishaverse novels get even better in the spin-offs – and based off of these two books, I have to agree! While I enjoyed the Shadow and Bone trilogy well enough, I didn’t feel they brought anything particularly new or interesting to the fantasy genre, and overall I actually thought that the […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, grishaverse, Leigh Bardugo

anana's CBR14 Review No:9 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, grishaverse, Leigh Bardugo ·
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Finally Done and Good Riddance

Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo

March 30, 2022 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

The final twist was stupid, the villain defeat was stupid and anti-climactic, the temporary (mostly) bad things that were done to certain heroes I’ve seen elsewhere in more interesting ways/effects, so very little actually seems to happen, and a lot of the backstory isn’t even all that interesting, although it does explain a lot about certain characters. No one even gets to do anything interestingly heroic here; the personal/self-sacrificial stuff in the final confrontation isn’t even that sympathetic. The prologues and epilogues don’t even add […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, grishaverse, Leigh Bardugo, nyt best seller, Ruin and Rising, YA

CoffeeShopReader's CBR14 Review No:28 · Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, grishaverse, Leigh Bardugo, nyt best seller, Ruin and Rising, YA ·
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Meh in the Middle

Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo

March 29, 2022 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Siege and Storm is better than Shadow and Bone for one reason: Nikolai Lantsov and Sturmhond. There is a lot less of Alina and the Darkling, although both do appear, and that’s not a bad thing. That part of the story shouldn’t really be the focus anyways, given how much Alina keeps focusing on one objective, first learn how to Grisha, then get away from Darkling while trying to find the sea snake/ice dragon and then fire-bird (and that quest is barely even mentioned)/maybe become […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, coming-of-age, grishaverse, Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm, YA

CoffeeShopReader's CBR14 Review No:27 · Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, coming-of-age, grishaverse, Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm, YA ·
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Fun, Fast Fantasy Reads

Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo

Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo

March 1, 2022 by anana Leave a Comment

I decided to read the Shadow and Bone series after watching the first season of the series on Netflix, and the general fantasy/magic world of the Grishaverse seemed like it would be my jam. If you’re looking to cut to the chase rather than reading my take on each book: if YA Fantasy is your thing, these books are worth reading! I tore through the whole series, and while it was certainly not perfect, it was very enjoyable and every book managed to be a […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, grishaverse, Leigh Bardugo

anana's CBR14 Review No:6 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, grishaverse, Leigh Bardugo ·
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