Reviews
Reseña Sombra y Hueso: Puntuación: 7,5/10Este sin duda fue un libro que me gusto mucho, lo leí hace ya mucho tiempo y aun recuerdo cuanta ilusión me hizo que me lo regalaran con todos los demás. Este libro la verdad, fue un libro que deguste en unas horas, ya que su trama te engancha casi desde el comienzo, con sus múltiples presentaciones de personajes a la hora de la historia, por ejemplo Alina, El oscuro, Malien Oriente, y otros tantos; como también por sus múltiples giros de trama descolocando por completo respecto a lo que se te está contando, etc…Si que hay ciertas cosas de este libro que no llegaron a convencerme como por ejemplo el hecho de que está todo contado desde la perspectiva de Alina, y no se nos da a conocer en ningún momento el pensamiento de muchos de los personajes, que a mi parecer, son igual de importantes; y por otro lado la introducción de personajes innecesarios dentro de este libro en concreto.Tengo que destacar por otra parte la escritura sencilla y apelativa que tiene la escritora y autora del libro, ya que como bien he dicho, te adentra dentro de la historia desde el comienzo de esta. ¿Y de qué va este libro y primera parte de la trilogía? Nos cuenta cómo una chica común, huérfana desde su infancia debidos a una guerra que diezmó a la población de ese mundo, descubre un día salvando a su amigo mal en la sombra, tiene el poder de destruir esta mediante el poder de la luz. En cuanto se descubre esto, la llevan ante la corte real de Ravka para ser entrenada como una Grisha más, y es entonces cuando conoce a un general bastante curioso llamado el oscuro.Creo que es una novela que gusta y si la recomendaría, sobre todo si tenéis intención de leer el resto de libros de la saga y vais a ver la serie de Netflix.Grisha: Persona con poderes del mundo de estas novelas.
3 stars2 starsAnd there's nothing wrong with being a lizard either. Unless you were born to be a hawk.To be completely honest, nothing really happened in this book. The characters were quite dull at times, they didn't really shine through to me and the plot was kind of slow-paced. The old, good looking evil douchebag, the darkling didn't even seem that evil. Half of the book was Alina and Mal walking through the mountains and forest. The only thing that I really liked was the world building of Ravka and just the Grisha world in general. I hope the next book will pick up pace (90 pages in the second book and it's going ok so far).EDIT: Thinking back, I honestly didn't really like the whole plot and it was so slow paced with characters that I mostly didn't like. I couldn't connect to any of the characters and I felt like it was quite bland.
3.5 stars. I actually quite liked this book. I got sucked in early on. The characters annoyed me a bit at the start but this is a book I'd re read.
A personagen principal Alina é chata, sem sal, só sabe reclamar, só chora, o Maly é outro chapinha. O único interessante é o Darkling, ele é charmoso, inteligente, misterioso, elegante, gosteu muito dele.
[Spoiler Free Review]I never expected this book to have me in the chokehold it has now. I've watched the first episode of the TV show back then and wasn't instantly grabbed and thought, meh, I'll watch it another time. Now that I'm back into reading I thought, hey this is right up my alley, has all the genres I like, what could go wrong?To anyone reading this: BUY IT. IF YOU LIKE THE GENRE YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED.I am utterly OBSESSED. I've already bought the graphic novel and the other spin-offs. I am actually in awe how much story, worldbuilding and content the author managed to pack into 350 pages. I felt like I've experienced at least 500 pages worth of story, I was emotionally destroyed at the end. And there are two wolves inside of me... one is toxic and loves the Darkling and the other is looking for a happy end and loves Mal. I just really love all these characters and I damn near ugly cried when Mal and Alina reunited. It's actually so rare to see a good male love interest, especially in a love triangle (well, it's technically not a love triangle, but in my unhinged mind it is).Also, big shoutout to the slavic inspired world. I'm russian myself and it was a pleasant surprise to see a fantasy world that has so much from my experience in it. I'm a sucker for speaking mainly english but using foreign words in between, so you can imagine the field day I had with all the russian and russian inspired words thrown in there :DSidenote: I'll be forever mad that they didn't cast a young man as the darkling, he was explicitly described to look as young as Alina or even younger, I COULD'VE HAD MY PRETTY BOY DARKLING! THE TRAGEDY. (No shade to Ben Barnes, he's fine, but the visible age gap in the show icky).