When I first read Shadow and Bone, I thought the twist was going to be The Darkling isn’t the villain. He was talking about peace, ending the wars and helping the Grisha. It didn’t make sense that compared to the monarchy he’d be the bad guy.
All Alina, the hero of the story, talked about was killing him and destroying the fold. Same with the others that were the good guys.
It will never make sense to me that he was the villain and Alina was the hero.


















