'Darkness never dies'
A lie, a country, millions of lives in the balance, the human need for power and a love that will last forever…
Across the cloud of darkness that has taken thousands of lives, Alina and Mal find themselves in a completely different world than the one they lived in. West Ravka, filled with its modernized life; the trading, the people and the True Sea has everything Ravka on the inside needs to survive, and no Grisha and no Darkling! (You're gonna understand this only if you've read the first book)
The boy and the girl are on the run from everything they knew, including the oldest and most powerful Grisha and his unbeatable army. Ravka, the once great nation, now, on the inside, is in chaos, with the Apparat ruling and the second army's rebellion.
Siege and Storm is not one of those boring, dragged-on second books. In fact, it just made me want to read the third installment faster that it took me to read the first two! In it, the characters and the plot are so deeply explored, the Darkling, Alina, Mal, politics in the Ravkan court, in the Little Palace and power, mankind's greatest 'want' itself.
Alina is no longer just the Sun Summoner, the new Ravkan legend in the making or the girl trying so hard to fit in; and neither is she the girl pining after the boy that doesn't really see her. She is still the Sun Summoner, the new Ravkan legend in the making, but who she is as a person, her fears, her follies, her quips and her deepest and scariest desires are all revealed, her need for power, how she is not flawless which makes her well, human, in a way and not at all like those perfect heroines that I loathe.
The Darkling is no longer the mysterious bad boy with a purpose that everybody either wants or fears nor is he the man trying to undo the wrong of an ancestor but the man who wants limitless power, and will do anything to get there, he is out of control, scary and yet, a strangely likeable character that there would be no story without.
We see Mal, the country's best tracker who would do anything for Alina as we find out with The Darkling's amazing line "I prick one and the other bleeds;" his faults.
In this edition, we go back to the Little Place with a few surprises: the youngest prince is back, a new leader for the second army, the new role of the peasants of Ravka and a civil war that is coming…
I could go on and on about the book, which I was I originally did and when I was re-reading this review. I realized that if I tell you what happens during the book, you won't feel everything I felt while reading it - the excitement, the shock, the fear - you will already know... So I didn't put it in, just trust me, this is a book worth your time!
Siege and Storm is a book that that did not leave me bored for a second and kept me wanting more all through! Rebel Grisha, politics, power, Alina, The Darkling, love and a country all make up one Hell of a book! - READ it!
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