Exactly one week ago, my best friend told me to watch a series called Shadow and Bone on Netflix. I heard about it when it first came out in April but I wanted to wait for them all to come out so I could binge. However, last week, I changed my mind and gave it a shot. And now, after a week, I finished the whole book trilogy. It was slow for my normal reading pace because I didn't want it to end and now, I'm depressed.
I love reading but whenever I found an amazing one, I immediately threw myself back to the vulnerable and depressing state, like right now. Therefore, I only read non-fiction books. This post is dedicated to Ruin and Rising ending which I finished last night and cried myself to sleep.
******SPOILER ALERT******
Sincerely advised not to read further in case of being spoiled
This was copied from my review of the book on Goodreads.
I bet a lot of you guys didn't like Mal from the beginning but then changed your mind in book 3, right? He is selfless and all he ever wanted was to keep her safe then eventually, he gave up his life for her. And there wasn't any more romantic gesture than that in this series. The way he cared for her, protected her, made me fall in like with him more than he first appeared.
Why just in like? Because my heart belongs to someone else.
I cried my heart out when the Darkling died. Yes, I know it was a bit easy to kill him but I understand why. He waited his whole life for an equal, for a companion in this eternal journey, and for an answer he obsessed with. And all he got was deception (Morozora did f*** him up, didn't he?), disappointment, and loneliness, the thing he feared the most. The moment Aline put the knife into his chest, I think he let her do it due to the hopelessness and overwhelmed shock that everything he had built, whether it was the Fold or the ideology or his will, was demolished. He was just a lonely and scared little boy burdened with too much power, wasn't he? I don't think I could get over him or this ending or the hopelessness he felt in his final moments.
And Alina, I'm really happy about the ending she was given. She never wanted the power or Grisha's life. All she wanted was a normal life with Mal. It was so peaceful for me when I read the After with their life together. They belong with each other.
Nikolai, my dear, wickedly sweet and witty Prince Charming. Yeah, I was shocked when he was turned into...that creature but I know his journey will go one in King of Scars so let me finish that first.
I'm starting Six of Crows and I will never be able to get over this Grishaverse huhuhuhuhu. This is why I don't read fiction, it throws me back to my depressed zone but I keep coming backkkkk. Send help!
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