It’s also got some great twists in the tale, and it keeps you guessing until the very end as to how things will turn out. The romance between Alina and the two men is intense and the stakes – the fate of a country, or perhaps even the entire world, are suitably high. Alina, who starts off as a plain and ordinary girl with no confidence herself, develops into a great heroine, while the Darkling and the tracker Mal are intriguing characters – even if Mal does spend a large amount of the book ‘off-stage’, so to speak. This was a beguiling fantasy with some superb world-building here and a trio of interesting characters who actually provided a love triangle which didn't set my teeth on edge for once. Taken to the royal court to learn how to use her power, will she be Ravka's saviour? And while the current Darkling needs her to help him to repent for his predecessor's crimes, and she feels attracted to him - why can't she ever forget her childhood friend Mal? All seems lost for this once-great country - until orphan Alina crosses the fold, and manages to fight off the volcra by releasing a power she never knew she had. It has also been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a mysterious black fog filled with the volcra, monsters who feast on human flesh, created by an evil Darkling many centuries ago.
The country of Ravka has been at war for many years. Shadow and Bone was originally published in the UK in May 2012 as The Gathering Dark.
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