Shadow and Bone was fast and action-packed. Siege and Storm moved the story along and got Alina, Mal, and Nikolai where they needed to be. Ruin and Rising, that is where Leigh Bardugo cuts your damn heart out and feeds it to you. Despite reading this series out of order I still got blindsided by the revelations in the last quarter of the book. I got slammed, thrown around, and eviscerated and here I am begging for more. Damn you, Bardugo. Why do you hurt us so good?

I’m sad to leave the Grishaverse behind. You never do capture the delight and wonder of a first read twice, and this has been a hell of a ride. 

(Also where is my Inej duology? Please? Don’t make us beg. But also we will beg.)