Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo YA can be more fickle than its literary cousins. It’s notorious for trends. There were wizards, vampires, and what feels like a decade’s worth of dystopias. The result is a glut of books with sassy female protagonists who discover they have a unique power, are fighting to save the […]
Read MoreRay McKenzie and Rebecca Fisher´s rating: 3.5, 4 | Leigh Bardugo | Young Adult | SFF Reviews | | 3 comments |
Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo Siege and Storm (2013) is the second book in Leigh Bardugo‘s GRISHA trilogy, and does what any good sequel should do: expands the world, deepens the characters and raises the stakes. On the other hand, it can’t quite avoid the pitfalls of a typical middle book — being unable […]
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Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo The third and final instalment in Leigh Bardugo‘s GRISHA trilogy was far more rewarding than I had ever anticipated. Though I liked the first book Shadow and Bone and really liked the sequel Siege and Storm, it was Ruin and Rising that I truly loved. It’s difficult to summarize […]
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Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo Leigh Bardugo, best known for her GRISHA young adult magical fantasy trilogy, explores a different corner of the Grisha world in her new young adult novel, Six of Crows. In the city of Ketterdam, an analog for Amsterdam, criminal gangs control the waterfront, and the surrounding area is a […]
Read MoreTadiana Jones and Rebecca Fisher´s rating: 4, 4.5 | Leigh Bardugo | Young Adult | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
Reposting to include Rebecca’s new review. Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo Note: This review contains spoilers for Six of Crows, the first book in this duology. Crooked Kingdom (2016) picks up the story begun in Six of Crows and takes off like ― well, there are no freight trains in this world, so ― a […]
Read MoreTadiana Jones and Rebecca Fisher´s rating: 5 | Leigh Bardugo | Young Adult | SFF Reviews | | 3 comments |
Reposting to include Rebecca’s new review. The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic by Leigh Bardugo The Language of Thorns (2017) is a collection of six stories and novelettes by Leigh Bardugo, dark and lyrical folk tales set in her GRISHA universe, in the Russian-inspired country of Ravka and other nearby countries. These […]
Read MoreTadiana Jones and Rebecca Fisher´s rating: 4.5, 5 | Leigh Bardugo | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 3 comments |
Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo The DC ICONS COLLECTION is a series of four YA novels that take a famous DC superhero and explores their background before they became the stuff of legends. This means having a look at their adolescence, whether it’s Clark tending the farm in Smallvillle, Bruce doing voluntary work in […]
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Reposting to include Rebecca’s new review. King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo King of Scars (2019), the first book in Leigh Bardugo’s NIKOLAI DUOLOGY and part of the ongoing saga in her GRISHA universe, begins not long after the events in Crooked Kingdom. Readers should ideally have read both the original SHADOW AND BONE trilogy […]
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Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo Galaxy “Alex” Stern (the name courtesy of her hippie mother) seems an obvious misfit at prestigious Yale University. Wealth, athletic talent and academic stardom are nowhere to be found in Alex’s life. Instead she’s a high school dropout with a history of dead-end jobs and drug use, and the survivor […]
Read MoreTadiana Jones and Marion Deeds´s rating: 0.1, 4 | Leigh Bardugo | Horror | SFF Reviews | | 4 comments |
Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo Rule of Wolves, the second half of Leigh Bardugo’s NIKOLAI DUOLOGY, picks up right where King of Scars left off and flings the reader headlong into the story. In other words, if it’s been a while since you read King of Scars, you’d be well advised to refamiliarize yourself at […]
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Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo When 2023’s Hell Bent, by Leigh Bardugo, opens, a demon has trapped Galaxy Stern, who goes by Alex, in the basement of the Black Elm house, along with two ghosts. Upstairs, her friend and mentor, Darlington, who was sucked into a hell dimension in Ninth House, Book One of the […]
Read MoreMarion Deeds´s rating: 3.5 | Leigh Bardugo | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
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