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Earthlings by Sayaka Murata.

Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides.

The ones who walk away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin.

I really felt that there was no plot to this book except for like the last 10%, I checked it on Goodreads trust me. It was 350 pages of dragging the plot and even after reading for so long, I didn't get the climax I wanted.

Alina is a very boring narrator and she doesn't make an interesting protagonist. I just don't understand how can someone be the Sun Summoner and at the same time be so boring. I did not really see any character development. She was the same person from the first book.

Also what is up with hating Zoya?! The sole purpose of Zoya in the story is to add drama to the story and I'm not up for teenage-love-triangle-drama.

About Mal, well he already gets a lot of hate. I don't really hate him but he's not my favourite character either. I really don't care if Alina and Mal deserve each other. What I know is that I don't deserve either of them and their drama.

Nikolai is definitely the only mature character among these self indulged teenagers. His shoulders must be hurting carrying the entire weight of the plot.

Darkling, to be honest, I don't really have any new thoughts because he was hardly present in the story.

To sum it up,it's a 2 on 5 for me. I want to definitely read the next book and I really hope it doesn't disappoint me.

THIS BOOK COULD HAVE BEEN JUST 50 PAGES LONG.

To be honest, the story wasn't really bad. I liked the concept behind the entire thing. But (there's always a but) I don't really think it was well executed.

Here's a brief idea of the plot. There is this great nation Ravka, which is divided into two by the Shadow Fold, which is a stretch of sea filled with monsters called Volcra who feed on human flesh.

Alina and Mal are two orphans and childhood best friends. Alina, the protagonist gets to know that she's a Grisha, after a deadly encounter with the Volcra while crossing the Shadow Fold. She's bestowed with a magical power which can be used to make or break the world. She is taken away to be trained as a Grisha by the mysterious, dark and beautiful Darkling, who gets to decide how to use this power.

With the darkness all over and the entire kingdom dependent on her power of light, Alina has to make a bold choice which will change everyone's fate.

Sounds similar? Because it's very other YA fantasy. The characters are pretty plain and not very interesting. Alina suffers from the not-like-other-girls syndrome and Mal is super into his own head. Apart from the characters, I also felt the world was not well fleshed out. It could have been a lot more descriptive giving the readers a better picture of everything.

The story line was predictable, but I knew what I had signed up for and I didn't have a problem with that. I do want to know how things end. The plot was fast paced and the Darkling kept the story going.

Also I have a soft spot for Genya. Can she be the main character?!

Overall I think this is 3/5 for me because I have equal amount of things I like and I don't like.

I can understand why people love and treasure this book and I think I would have done it too if I were 16 *unfortunately I'm not*.

I'll update with the second book in a few days *squeaks* .