A review by axhiiles
Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo

5.0

misha: accidentally calls mal "dad"
alina, amused: do you think of mal as a father figure, misha?
misha, puffing his red cheeks: no! i think of him as a bother figure 'cause he's always bothering me!

shadow bird!nikolai has the potential to be so fucking hilarious and also the bane of alina's existence
zoya, scratching under his chin and cooing: who's a pretty bird?
nikolai, side-eyeing and making the knife cat expression at an annoyed alina: