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by Leigh Bardugo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the last book in the Grisha trilogy by Leigh Bardugo, and here we continue to follow Alina and her group of friends as they prepare for a war against the Darkling and his demon-like creatures. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the disappointment of book two, I was nervous getting into this book, but I can easily way that this is the best in the series. This book was great. Action from page one, and great plot and interesting twists and turns that never made reading this boring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I love how we get to see more of the Darkling in this book and dig deeper into his complicated relationship with Alina. Their connection is strong, in more ways than one, and Alina suffers from the fear that she\u2019s meant to like him. At the same time there is a part of her that longs for it too. But she\u2019s deemed a Saint, a role she does not want to have, but people see her as the savior, the one who\u2019ll destroy the darkness. And that\u2019s what she wants too, she wants to be the hero. That\u2019s why it\u2019s great to see her being torn between light and dark and how natural it feels. She\u2019s in the middle of an impossible situation and the way this is written makes it easy to connect with that feeling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was a great ending to the series, even if I\u2019m not completely satisfied with how it was wrapped up, but still great and I enjoyed reading it. The absolute biggest disappointment I had with this plot though is how it lacked a plot. There was really nothing there until the third book. Everything that happened up until this book is just a long and slow buildup. I would have wanted more plot.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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by Leigh Bardugo This is the last book in the Grisha trilogy by Leigh Bardugo, and here we continue to follow Alina and her group of friends as they prepare for a war against the Darkling and his demon-like creatures.  After the disappointment of book two, I was nervous getting into this book, but I can easily way that this is the best in the series. This book was great. Action from page one, and great plot and interesting twists and turns that never made reading this boring. I love how we get to see more of the Darkling in this book and dig deeper into his complicated relationship with Alina. Their connection is strong, in more ways than one, and Alina suffers from the fear that she\u2019s meant to like him. At the same time there is a part of her that longs for it too. But she\u2019s deemed a Saint, a role she does not want to have, but people see her as the savior, the one who\u2019ll destroy the darkness. And that\u2019s what she wants too, she wants to be the hero. That\u2019s why it\u2019s great to see her being torn between light and dark and how…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[4],"wppr_data":{"cwp_meta_box_check":"Yes","cwp_rev_product_name":"Ruin and Rising","_wppr_review_template":"default","cwp_image_link":"image","wppr_links":[""],"cwp_rev_price":"","wppr_pros":["Great characters","Unexpected turns","Good worldbuilding","Good ending to the series"],"wppr_cons":["Passive writing",""],"wppr_rating":"71.00","wppr_options":{"1":{"name":"Overall","value":"70"},"2":{"name":"Plot","value":"60"},"3":{"name":"Writing","value":"70"},"4":{"name":"Characters","value":"85"},"5":{"name":"Ending","value":"70"}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655,"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions\/655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}