Shadow and Bone

By Leigh Bardugo

Book Overview

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Discover the adventure that started it all and meet Alina, Mal, and the Darkling in Shadow and Bone from #1 bestselling author, Leigh Bardugo.

Soldier. Summoner. Saint. Orphaned and expendable, Alina Starkov is a soldier who knows she may not survive her first trek across the Shadow Fold--a swath of unnatural darkness crawling with monsters. But when her regiment is attacked, Alina unleashes dormant magic not even she knew she possessed.

Now Alina will enter a lavish world of royalty and intrigue as she trains with the Grisha, her country's magical military elite--and falls under the spell of their notorious leader, the Darkling. He believes Alina can summon a force capable of destroying the Shadow Fold and reuniting their war-ravaged country, but only if she can master her untamed gift.

As the threat to the kingdom mounts and Alina unlocks the secrets of her past, she will make a dangerous discovery that could threaten all she loves and the very future of a nation.

Welcome to Ravka . . . a world of science and superstition where nothing is what it seems.

A New York Times Bestseller
A Los Angeles Times Bestseller
An Indie Next List Book
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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250027438
• ISBN13: 9781250027436
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Square Fish
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.5" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 12 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 7 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

For the fantasy reader and the lover girls.

I found that I was looking for a series where I could relate to the main character and live in the story. This book had me hooked in the first two chapters and I found myself putting other series on the back burner in order to know what is next. More for the secret lover girl as it starts off with a young girl in love with her best friend and seems a little jejune in that sense, but it spoke to the high school girl in me and drew me in with the pulling of heartstrings. I loved watching this character grow and change and how the other characters bridge off of this first book in the series into two, maybe even more book series in this universe.

The Best Book Out The Series

I liked this book overall; the storyline was very interesting and I love the magic system. There were some parts that could have been better, but instead were mediocre and paled alongside better articulated parts of the story. But overall I enjoyed this book and believe it to be the best out the series.

Wasn’t sure if I was going to like it.

I was recommended this book by a friend, I didn’t think I would like it but decided to read it anyways. The beginning of the book is kinda slow but once it starts to pick up in the middle I couldn’t put the book down.

The book was good

It had cliche moments, but the book was rather interesting. It was really well written and captivating.

Very well-written!

I really enjoyed this book. It kept a great pace throughout, had a few twists that were unexpected, and was easy to read. I read it in less than a day!