Title:
Ruin
and Rising
Author:
Leigh
Bardugo
Genre:
Fiction,
Young Adult, Fantasy
Publisher:
Henry
Holt and Company
Publishing
date: June 17th 2014
Pages:
422
Rating
★★★★☆
Previous reviews:
Hello! Today I’m reviewing Ruin and Rising, the
third and final book of the Grisha trilogy.
I was hesitant to
continue with the trilogy because I didn’t like Siege and Storm at all, but I
already had the book, so I gave it a try.
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| Mal. |
The book starts just
where the second one ended, with Alina weak and defeated hiding from
the
Darkling, she has lost her power and has been undergrounds for a while, so the
book is a bit slow at the beginning but then the pace pick up when Alina, Mal
and company decide to leave the Apparat and look for the help of Nikolai, who
they don’t even know if he’s alive or not.
I know a lot of people
love Nikolai, but I wasn’t fond of him in the previous book. I thought he only
served with the purpose of being a powerful ally to Alina and an obstacle in
her relationship with Mal, but I liked him more in this book, I think his
character developed a lot.
I’ve never been a fan
of Alina, in my fist review I said I liked her because she wasn’t the typical
perfect character, but she became annoying in my opinion, she is kind of
selfish and power hungry, and I felt she created obstacles between her and
others, mainly Mal.
In my previous reviews
I said I didn’t like Mal at all, he is way too perfect to be realistic and I
don’t even know why he likes Alina. In this book a reason is given as a “maybe
this is why they like each other” and as Alina and Mal spent more time
together, I think their relationship became more believable, and I started
liking him.
This book was hard to
put down, as I said it was a bit slow and even depressing at first, but then it
picked up speed, and it remained like that until the end. There are many
answers and revelations, and more action in comparison with the previous one. There’s
always something happening… and also there is more death.
I swear if I were Alina
I would chose the darkling. Last December I met Leigh Bardugo, and asked her
for a song to listen while reading this book in particular, she told me she
considered “Runing down the hill” by Placebo as the Darkling’s theme song. I
listened to that song each time he appeared in the book and it was a cool
experience that made me love him more. There is so much sexual tension between
him and Alina that I didn’t see between her and any other love interest.
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| Alina and the Darkling |
I sympathized more with
the Darkling in this book because he appears more human, he is still crazy,
power hungry, and bad, but we get to know why he acts that way and what is what
he really wants and why.
I had some trouble with
the end of the book and the story. During the whole book I was waiting for a
big and epic battle between Alina and the Darkling, two equals with opposite
powers fighting against each other… but what I got wasn’t like what I was
hoping for.
I must admit I didn’t
see that ending coming; it was quite a surprise but was a good and satisfactory
end for the story.
Ruin and rising is a
good finale for an interesting fantasy trilogy, it’s concrete and leaves no
room for sequels, but it’s open to spin offs, like “King of Scars,” the next
Leigh Bardugo book that’ll focus on Nikolai.
If you have read the
first two books of this trilogy, you should finish it, this book is
interesting, action packed, romance packed, and we get answers and a good
conclusion. If you haven’t started this trilogy, you should give it a try if
you are looking for an interesting fantasy adventure with a rich magic system,
wonderful setting and a sexy villain.
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