Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo -- Book Review 🏰☠📚

[@diazdiscusses]

I'm honestly excited for the series!

[@AnneEWilliamson]

Me too! I really hope it follows the book closely.

[@whyamionline8731]

Ha, I remember when you said Nikolai was pretty bad and I was like ehhhh give it a minute. I knew you would like him!

[@AnneEWilliamson]

Yep. He definitely grew on me. He was the best character in the book besides Baghra.

[@jjyoti0508]

Anne with an A... I like your channel name 😍😍

[@AnneEWilliamson]

Thank you! It's fitting, lol.

[@inpjsbookclub]

So if Alina stabbed the Darkling and he is an amplifier as well..... Did he truly died????

[@AnneEWilliamson]

I honestly don't know. It's a theory I think is plausible. In Six of Crows, there is this mysterious man mentioned once that my boyfriend believes is the Darkling. Six of Crows is set after Shadow and Bone trilogy. So it's possible he's still alive. Maybe there will be a second series about his comeback! That would be cool!

[@Kamila-eb9pz]

Honestly I didn't like the ending of Ruin and Rising so I wrote an alternative ending R&R real ending I woke up I'd planned to fight the Darkling along with Toyla, Tamar, Mal and the soldat soldiers, but I'd decided to give up, there was no point in fighting the Darkling, he'd only kill more innocents, it's the only way I told myself, so I entered the fold using my light to protect me from the volcra, I was nervous, after what might've been 30 minutes I spotted the Darkling's skiff, some doors opened allowing me to pass He was there, his features perfect as usual -You're coming to me? Just like that? he said intrigued -Yes, I said numbly, avoiding eye contact -His mouth quirked into half a smile, he touched the nape of my neck and I blacked out

[@Kamila-eb9pz]

Chapter 1 I heard the rattling of the carriage I was in, I was probably going to Os Alta, I regained my composure and opened my eyes as daylight flooded my eyes, I was dazed trying to remember what had happened, the Darkling had put me into sleep back in the fold so I didn't come out with inconveniences, I looked down to see my hands and to my surprise they weren't on irons, maybe the Darkling knew I was too tired, tired of fighting him, of hiding, was I like the Darkling? I've thought of it a long time and It was true, I was no different from him, I had abandoned roughly 50 people on the skiff, delivering them at the mercy of volcra, I wanted to kill the Apparat along with the priestguards, the militias were killed because of me, I'm no different from him -I repeated and the partial truth of it hit me, yes I was willing to defend Genya, I wanted to save Mal, I'd held my desire to kill the Aparat, what was going to happen once I got ancient like the Darkling? All of my friends would die, burned down to ashes, I'd be alone, isolated, would the isolation make me ruthless? Would I begin to see the lives of others as something finite, as something to be used?

[@Kamila-eb9pz]

By the way english is not my first language so I'm sorry If I have grammatical errors

[@AnneEWilliamson]

Very cool! I definitely had mixed feelings about the end of Ruin and Rising and I prefer yours better!

[@kwentuhansabanyo8918]

check the book the Last Moondancer

[@AnneEWilliamson]

Thank you for the recommendation! I will check it out.

[@katrinabrown]

Are you excited for the show? I am and I didn't finish the books 😂

[@AnneEWilliamson]

I definitely am! I'm always excited to see how a book format is adapted to the screen!