Reviews

Tenebre e ossa by Leigh Bardugo

konsectatrix's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Very tropy YA, complete with a dark lord love triangle,  but I was intrigued by the choice of setting and the worldbuilding held my attention.

chloebug13's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

a_chickletz's review against another edition

4.0

I don't know what made me want to retry this series. Probably because it's getting a Netflix adaptation; the world is obsessed; there are spin-offs; and maybe because I found books two and three dirt cheap.

Well now I am very glad I did. I honestly enjoyed it! It's up there with City of Brass / Kingdom of Copper as 'series with a girl who wants to kick the shit out of the villain'.

I rate it down a star because I feel that with the different type of Grisha the others felt pretty worthless or just didn't result to anything and most of the focus was on Alina and the Darkling's powers.

linaver's review against another edition

3.0

I see this author recommended quote a lot, and so after I finally watched the show, I (also finally) read the book.

Meh.

I gave it 5⭐️ at first for it reads really easily and it sufficienty enjoyable. But then I decided to update it to 3, because already the next day I kind of didn't care about it anymore?!

This is where I rant now.
It might just be the fact that I really ship the bad guy with the main girl or, wait no, I actually don't care for the girl all that much either and just want to see more of the bad guy

withallthelies's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A

4.75

aruja_reads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense

3.75

daniellem1's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

soapgrace's review against another edition

3.0

Almost 4 stars, but not quite. I REALLY enjoyed the concept and plot of this book, but the characters didn't particularly draw me in (except the Darkling and Genya)

lyraggs's review against another edition

4.0

Iniciando una nueva trilogía....lo único que queda decir es que este libro le pertenece a Darkling por ser tan el.

Es entretenido y te mantienen enganchada, no hay mucho romance pues se centra mas en el desarrollo de la protagonista "Alina" y como ella se llega a convertir en Grisha y en una que puede llegar a ser muy poderosa. El otro protagonista ni aparece y para mi ni me importa con lo poco, no es uno que te atraiga ademas que no se siente la química con Alina, en cambio el Darkling es otra cosa ellos dos juntos son como Ying-Yang, blanco y negro, opuestos que se atraen y tienen una conexión, por algo es uno de los personajes mas queridos de lo que sera esta trilogía.
El resto de los personajes también son entrenidos, en especial Genya nuestra cardio confeccionista, una personalidad chispeante.
Aun no sabemos mucho del mundo pero seguro en los otros libros nos dirán mas de ello, aunque tenemos un mapa para apreciar.

Relectura X2

drushtii's review against another edition

4.0

it took me some time to read this but i enjoyed it. also the darkling is hot.