fantasy

Siege And Storm

12/08/2015


 


Title: 
Siege And Storm
(The Grisha #2)

Author: 
Leigh Bardugo
★★★☆☆
3.5 out of 5 stars
Hunted across the True Sea, haunted by the lives she took on the Fold, Alina must try to make a life with Mal in an unfamiliar land. She finds starting new is not easy while keeping her identity as the Sun Summoner a secret. She can’t outrun her past or her destiny for long.

The Darkling has emerged from the Shadow Fold with a terrifying new power and a dangerous plan that will test the very boundaries of the natural world. With the help of a notorious privateer, Alina returns to the country she abandoned, determined to fight the forces gathering against Ravka. But as her power grows, Alina slips deeper into the Darkling’s game of forbidden magic, and farther away from Mal. Somehow, she will have to choose between her country, her power, and the love she always thought would guide her--or risk losing everything to the oncoming storm.


As I was staring blankly at my screen I started wondering why was it taking me so long to write a proper review of Siege and Storm, I have tried three different times already and keep postponing it over and over again since I finished reading this book 8 weeks ago. I honestly don’t have anything to say about it, this book made zero impact on my life, nor for better nor for worse.

So we have Alina and Mal escaped from the Darkling and now are working hard to make money in order to be able to move to another town, they live on a small (almost in ruins) bed and breakfast and live in fear of being discovered, soon enough they are held captive by the Darkling and take to sea, new characters are introduced, yet everything moves slowly.

My main problem with this series is the fact that don’t really like Alina, she grows in this book, becomes darker as her connection with the Darkling becomes stronger, she craves for power now and is also more active when it comes to politics. But she is still an indecisive insecure girl with no charisma. Mal isn’t any close to being my favorite either; he is constantly questioning their relationship: is it strong enough for it to last? Is it a one-sided love?

The secondary characters are better; we get introduced to Nikolai, whom in my opinion was a way to compensate for the Darkling’s absence, he is charming and way more charismatic than Alina will ever be.  Not to mention he is ridiculously good looking and persuasive. As I mentioned before, we don’t get much Darkling on this installment and yet when he is present his actions make me question if he really is as intelligent as they claim he is.



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