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Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

35 reviews

mythicsage's review against another edition

adventurous emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual harassment, Violence, and Animal death

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Child death, Classism, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Gun violence, Alcohol, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Genocide, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, and Slavery

Minor: Abandonment, Cursing, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Rape, Eating disorder, Alcoholism, Bullying, Confinement, Animal cruelty, Death of parent, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, War, and Xenophobia

readerorwateva's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Death of parent, War, Animal death, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Rape, Suicide, Body shaming, Sexual assault, Slavery, Child abuse, and Torture

loganh0124's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Rape

o_romeo's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming and Toxic relationship

Minor: Rape, Death of parent, and War

sissiemilia's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Death

Moderate: Emotional abuse

Minor: Rape

lphreads's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

Overall, really enjoyed this! I do think it was lacking in descriptions/world building opportunities at times, but it was quick and fast-paced, which I like. The rules of the “magic” are interesting and provide a great level of limitations for the characters.

Currently, I feel like this could have been read as a stand-alone (with a slightly ambiguous ending), so I’m interested to see how the trilogy continues. My copies of Siege and Storm and Ruin and Rising should arrive tomorrow evening so I’ll be anxiously awaiting them.

While reading, I kept being reminded of The Selection by Kiera Cass and Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard, both of which I loved. I mean, a slight love triangle

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(where one of the love interests turns out to be the villain)

, court intrigue, special abilities that the narrator didn’t know about, and a best friend from home that shows up at the Palace?! C’mon.

So, if you’re a fan of those series, I’d definitely recommend giving Shadow and Bone a try! Otherwise, any fan of YA fantasy should enjoy this one too.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Rape

effy's review against another edition

3.25

I went into this book with such low expectations as it feels like everyone says to skip this trilogy and go straight into Six of Crows.

I ended-up being really pleasantly surprised as we had an interesting cast of characters and a magic system that felt fresh. The only thing that I did not enjoy was the romance between 

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Mal and Alina

as it felt forced by also 

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whilst not biologically related, they had been raised as siblings and that just felt uncomfortable.

 

I did feel somewhat confused by how this series was going to be a trilogy as I was reading because there didn't seem to be enough story for 3 books.

Favourite quote:

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Fine! Make me your villain!

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Animal death, Incest, Murder, Slavery, and Rape

themiscyra_anna's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Child abuse, Violence, Toxic relationship, War, and Slavery

Moderate: Torture, Sexual assault, Eating disorder, and Confinement

Minor: Rape and Child death

infjkiki's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Kidnapping, Blood, and Animal death

Moderate: Gun violence, War, Toxic relationship, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, and Death of parent

rose_88's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Knew some things about it from social media, wanted to read before  watching the show, but only really heard about ‘Six of Crows’, but I really enjoyed this book. I felt there could have been more about Alina’s dynamics with people other than the Darkling, like more about her time with the other Grisha and her time in the army, but i did like how the author portrayed the Darkling and Alina’s relationship/dynamic.

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I liked how the relationship was first portrayed as one where he had been searching for her for ages and so fell in love with her due to his longing for someone to help fix the Fold, but then when you find out more about him and realised ‘oh shit he played her, he SEDUCED her’ which was really really shit on his part, just to get her to trust him.

 

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I also really loved Bahgara, just everything abiut her. How she was this mean and scary teacher who was the one person not pulled towards or enamoured by the Darkling, then you find out SHES HIS MOTHER!?!?! And everything just gets more sad cause she still loves him but knows he may be too far gone. But also wtf? Like we know barely anything about her? How’s she get her powers? How did she birth the most powerful Grisha minus the literal Sun Summoner?  Was she just as powerful as him, but just chose not to show it? ANSWERS I NEED ANSWERS!!

 

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I thought there could have been more about Mal, it was him who found the stag and he was so concerned about Alina, even thought he never got her letters. He’s so much better than the Darkling

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Blood, Body horror, and Death

Moderate: Animal death, Classism, Alcohol, Toxic relationship, and Cursing

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, and Sexual assault