Ruin and Rising

wonderful ending to this trilogy. had me in tears.

3,75/5

Wow. What a conclusion. A lot of action and adventure, and I really loved the character building. Also. “You will always be one of us” absolutely broke me. It was the perfect ending. Bittersweet, and beautiful.

(3.5) This was a good book towards the end and last half of the middle part. I was so glad that the drama with the Mal stuff was over (FINALLY), it was dragging on for too long. Also, the beginning and half of the middle was just the repetition of the second book. The plot was also dragged out. I would also have liked to see Nikolai get more of a moment, and am I the only one but I kinda shipped him and Alina???? Idk I feel as if they would have been a good match.

the last book of shadow and bone series was similar to the previous two books, so the review is going to be similar as well. I did enjoy it, I read it quickly and started to care for some of the characters (ehm ehm nikolai) plus I fell in love with the grishaverse in general. I still didn't really like alina and mal but I got over it and it didn't really bother me anymore. I had some problems with the ending, didn't really want it to end so... normally? I don't know, probably expected something more interesting, but that's okay. so yeah, I really like the series. don't ask me why and how when the main character was literally punchable all the time, I just fell in love with ravka (and mainly nikolai) :)

poor nikolai he must have severe back pain from carrying the whole series on his back 😳

painful

wow…. absolutely beautiful malina i love u forever

wow

3.5, loved the ending

** spoiler alert ** i truly don’t know how I feel right now but I’ll try to put it into words so at least I can go back to this later. This book... I hated it, then it made me so excited and then I just didn’t understand why Leigh would ever end it like this. 1. I couldn’t connect with Alina since the first book, she’s never been a good mc for me, but specially in this last book she was so annoying to me. Maybe it’s because it’s written in her pov and she’s so confused all the time but i just couldn’t understand her actions or personality. 2. Mal grew on me in this book, I have to say. Maybe it’s because I love when characters are willing to die for the greater good and he was so sure about giving his life to save Ravka and Alina, but i thought he was way better than the jealous annoying Mal in the first books. 3. The Darkling’s ending..... I pity him. Why did no one give him a chance? I feel like he saw in Alina an opportunity to complete his mission, but deep down she meant so much more to him, being his equal. I feel like if Alina had had a little bit more compassion towards him, maybe even tried to convince him of destroying the fold together and tried to ‘bring him to the light’ (star wars speaking), he wouldn’t have hesitated that much. At the end, he wanted a better country, and a better place for Grisha. So maybe if they had giving him other options, specially if he had had the support of Alina, I think he could have gotten a good redemption arc. But they merely dismissed him as the villain and nothing more, nobody cared about the Aleksander behind the Darkling, and Alina could have been the one to make that change in him. 4. Nikolai was just the star of the trilogy for me. My favorite character no doubts, and I think what happened to him in this book was.... interesting. I can’t wait to see more of him in the next books. Also, how could someone ever reject him ?????? See, I’ll never understand Alina. 5. I also loved Misha and Zoya so much in this book. Genya and David were cute and I like them better now. I really enjoyed Genya’s character development. 6. Finally, Alina and Mal loosing their powers..... I just won’t comment on that. But the scene where they bring her the blue kefta to the orphanage made me emotional.

This was an amazing end for this series! I will miss so much Alina and Mal... And something is really wrong with me because I love Darkling...

** spoiler alert ** çok güzel bir sondu. Benim sadistik kekim darkling öldüüüü. Çok üzüldüm ama yine de güzeldi. Kız aklını biraz kullandı en azından.

el mejor libro de la trilogía, de verdad. hacía tiempo que una trilogía no me dejaba así, desde los juegos del hambre. me encanta cómo escribe legih berdugo, la forma que tiene de narrar los sentimientos y todo. las escenas de dolor y de felicidad, increíble. (los días 16 y 17 de julio no pude leer. total días lectura: 4)

Ill be honest, I read it so I can peacefully read Six of Crows. Ot wasn’t perfect, I would prefer it to go different way a lot of the times, but the characters grew on me and I was mourning every loss. I absolutely hate Mal, tho. And Nikolai was definitely the best part of it all.

*raises both eyebrows* W H Y DO PEOPLE SHIP DARKLINA I'LL DIE MAD ABOUT IT WHY

at long last im done with this series lmao first half was a snooze save for all the nikolai moments because we love the man and he deserves all the rights. only when i was like ...3/4 into it did things get more fun (that's a lie, there were parts earlier in the book that were interesting but still) lmao don't wanna get into detail because i have No Thoughts always but i enjoyed it, i'm more or less happy with the ending and i'm just glad i can move on to crooked kingdom now and king of scars

i'm gonna defend darkling until my last breath.

Not my favorite series ever, but definitely excited for the Netflix show!!

Re-read 2018: I AM EMOTIONALLY UNSTABLE. I don’t know what happened to me during this re-read but I cried like THREE TIMES?! I mean, wow. Everything just affected me so intensely this time through. And this time, I felt as if everything ended up as exactly as it should. I remember being a little disappointed the first time (even though I couldn’t recall exactly why) but I didn’t have that issue this time. I wanted her to end up with who she ended up with. I knew what needed to happen for the story. I want to discuss it further but, spoilers. I just love this story. I forgot how much I loved this story. Original review: Ok WHOA. This was by far the best in the series (at least in my opinion). The other books I found to be good, but this one kind of blew me away. A lot of people had issues with this book but I felt like I couldn't put it down! And I found all of the twists and turns to be super refreshing and I loved not knowing what was going to happen next. I mean, yeah, I wanted her to end up with someone different but I liked the ending anyways. I like how everything turned out. I liked this book! I'm already super excited to jump into the other books she has placed in the Grishaverse. I'm glad I finally decided to pick up this series!

This was definitely more action packed which I loved. God the things Aline went through I would have never survived LOL I would have have died in book one hah. Anyways,

*SPOILER*

The ending has my heart I was hurting DEEPLY I was on a plane I tried not to cry especially the part Nikolai put ring on Alina ??😭😭 TEARS. Also that girl has more chemistry with every dude character then the main person she ends up with which was 👎. But again the ending has my heart and I hurt for the Darkling

Ruin and Rising: 4.5/5 Despite the Grishaverse's rocky start, this finale was absolutely astounding and made everything worth it. I even liked the first two books, but if I am honest, they are nothing compared to the beauty that this book is. Ruin and Rising takes everything great from the end of Siege and Storm and just continues it throughout the entirety of the novel. Every sentence has some kind of meaning to push the story further, and just this plot is otherworldly. This was everything I wanted the ending of the Grishaverse Trilogy to be, and more. I ended up honestly loving every character and realized how attached I truly am to all of them. I genuinely think I went through the five stages of grief while reading this. There were points where I wanted to scream, where I needed to take a lap, I even shed tears over my love for this world and everybody in it. The pacing issues apparent in Shadow and Bone and Siege and Storm simply didn't exist in Ruin and Rising. I think that's a testament to Leigh Bardugo's writing and how much it has improved over the course of this trilogy. Every twist and turn I could not foresee, no matter how much I thought I could have guessed the ending. Once again, I wished I read this trilogy before I read Six of Crows because I realize there is so much more to gain in that duology from this trilogy. If you are on the fence about reading the trilogy due to mixed reviews, I am telling you JUST READ IT. When it comes down to it, I enjoyed every book and flew through them. I think they are extremely worthwhile and tell an awesome, unique, and entertaining story.