Nonfiction and Nonsense

  • Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

    If you read Six of Crows, you will know that at the end of the novel things were looking very bleak for Kaz and his crew. They didn’t get their big payout, Inej was taken captive, and they were faced with a small army of Grisha on parem. While it didn’t seem possible for there…

  • Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

    Before I had even finished the second chapter of this book I knew that I was going to enjoy it more than the Shadow and Bone trilogy. I spent every free moment I had every day in the pages of this gritty adventure. Between Novyi Zem and the continent that is made up of Ravka,…

  • Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo

    I haven’t read a fantasy series that was not heavy on romance in a very long time. I am very glad I chose to go down that road again with this series. I would say that it may have renewed my love and enjoyment of fantasy without spice. The third and final book in this…

  • Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo

    Book two in this series begins exactly where the last one left off, a nice, smooth transition. Mal and Alina have crossed the True Sea and are now in hiding in Novyi Zem, the continent to the West of Ravka. They have only been in the city of Cofton for two weeks, trying to be…

  • Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

    I decided to start a new series. I originally believed it to be a trilogy, only to do some more indepth research and discovered that there are actually two sets of duologies, and four additional pieces supplementing the series. I have entered the GrishaVerse. Our female main character is Alina. She and her best friend…