Ruin and Rising - Leigh Bardugo

Ruin and Rising

By Leigh Bardugo

  • Release Date: 2014-06-17
  • Genre: Fantasy for Young Adults
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 1,456 Ratings
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Description

See the Grishaverse come to life on screen with the Netflix series, Shadow and Bone. Daring rogue Nikolai finally joins the fold in Season 2 -- covering explosive events of both Siege and Storm and Ruin and Rising -- streaming now!

Enter the Grishaverse with Book Three of the Shadow and Bone Trilogy by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom.

Soldier. Summoner. Saint. The nation’s fate rests with a broken Sun Summoner, a disgraced tracker, and the shattered remnants of a once-great magical army.

The Darkling rules from his shadow throne while a weakened Alina Starkov recovers from their battle under the dubious protection of the zealots who worship her as a Saint. Now her hopes lie with the magic of a long-vanished ancient creature and the chance that an outlaw prince still survives.

As her allies and enemies race toward war, only Alina stands between her country and a rising tide of darkness that could destroy the world. To win this fight, she must seize a legend’s power—but claiming the firebird may be her ruin.

A New York Times Bestselling Series
A USA Today Bestseller
This title has Common Core connections.

Read all the books in the Grishaverse!

The Shadow and Bone Trilogy
(previously published as The Grisha Trilogy)
Shadow and Bone
Siege and Storm
Ruin and Rising

The Six of Crows Duology
Six of Crows
Crooked Kingdom

The King of Scars Duology
King of Scars
Rule of Wolves

The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic
The Severed Moon: A Year-Long Journal of Magic
The Lives of Saints
Demon in the Wood Graphic Novel

Praise for the Grishaverse

“A master of fantasy.” —The Huffington Post
“Utterly, extremely bewitching.” —The Guardian
“This is what fantasy is for.” —The New York Times Book Review
“A world that feels real enough to have its own passport stamp.” —NPR
“The darker it gets for the good guys, the better.” —Entertainment Weekly
“Sultry, sweeping and picturesque. . . . Impossible to put down.” —USA Today
“There’s a level of emotional and historical sophistication within Bardugo’s original epic fantasy that sets it apart.” —Vanity Fair
“Unlike anything I’ve ever read.” —Veronica Roth, bestselling author of Divergent
“Bardugo crafts a first-rate adventure, a poignant romance, and an intriguing mystery!” —Rick Riordan, bestselling author of the Percy Jackson series

Reviews

  • That’s the ending??!

    2
    By aonea11
    I really enjoyed the series until the end of this book. Spoilers: Mal should have stayed dead, Alina should have ended up with Nicolai, and kept some extent of her powers. I was really disappointed by the ending and felt like everything the whole series was working towards was wasted. What a bummer.

  • It was good

    3
    By Zipster1!
    I read the whole Shadow & Bone trilogy, it was a good series not the best but it wasn’t bad, not something I would read for a second time

  • 6 Stars!

    5
    By Juliet Ortsev
    -SPOILERS AHEAD- I love this series with my whole heart! Book One was GREAT, Book Two was WHATEVER but this one is just a complete and total CHEFS KISS. I loved Mal’s character in this, and I loved Nikolai even more, couldn’t stop underlining quotes. Don’t listen to the other people, the beginning is kinda slowwww but then it just gets so much better. I literally sobbed so hard when Mal turned out to be the third amplifier, I SOBBED EVEN HARDER WHEN NIKOLAI TURNED INTO A MONSTER, and I cried really, really, really, really, a thousand times really hard at the final battle. I have to say, only critique is that after Alina kills the Darkling, there’s about 45-ish extra pages of what happens to her after the fight. It’s a bit slow at the end but still worth it! Read the series you wont regret it!

  • Just incredible!

    5
    By BaiChigster
    The imagery within the writing is just amazing. The bond that they share seems insurmountable, but can still remind us of what we have felt like when in love. There is nothing ordinary about this book series. I’m glad I spent the money on it because I couldn’t wait to find out what happened next.

  • GIVE IT A CHANCE

    4
    By market mentor
    I absolutely love this series. But this book IS a little SLOW. It has its good parts but there’s a lot of Boring in it before it gets good. Give it a chance. It gets good. Around chapter 6 it picks up. Looking forward to reading the next few coming up.

  • A good read

    4
    By Lifo9
    A good read to the very last page.

  • Wrong ending

    3
    By Jade010299
    This was a fantastic series and book 2 was my favorite. The ending provided in book 3 was so majorly missed for me. It felt too much of a Disney fairytale ending than a realistic one. It was too romanticized which I felt was already wrapped up nicely before the final fight scene. The final fight scene was rushed but still an ok scene. I just felt the overall ending to the main character was a romanticized Disney version that was unrealistic despite the reasoning provided by the author.

  • Please save yourself and don’t finish the series

    3
    By gagbbansnnann
    I was so disappointed at the ending that I didn’t know whether the author was being serious. SPOILERS AHEAD! first off she ended up with the wrong person and that was simply hard to read. Secondly she lost her powers and once again chose Mal. Lastly I hated the fighting scene when she killed the darkling. He went out in a good way which was satisfying but the scene ended before you could process it. She would go into detail in the boring parts and passed over the action and drama way to quickly, but needless to say this was a great book series so I’ll give it the benefit if the doubt and say this. If you want a conclusion to the series that you will ultimately hate and be frustrated with. Read this book. That’s fine by me but if you don’t want that then I’d suggest you move on for the series after the second one. It truly isn’t worth wasting your time on.

  • Loved this series so much! I didn’t want to put it down!

    5
    By Inanotherlife2
    The fantasy world paired with real down to earth characters who struggled, fought, and loved really drew me in to the story. I loved the complexity of the characters and the unpredictable storyline.

  • No ma’am

    3
    By SoccerGirl0
    Why? Loved this whole series and then the ending happened. Three whole books and that was how it ended... no, just no. No hate to Mal but when you have Nikolai as an option verse really anyone he’s the obvious choice. And (SPOILER) WHY DID ALINA HAVE TO LOSE HER POWERS??? I was more sad for Alina than Alina was for herself. Other than this disappointing ending I love this series.

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