Shadow and Bone

This book was the kind of book I would have adored when I was in Middle school and high school. I would have read this whole series overnight.

Alas I'm a bit older now and my views have changed. I also had the great privilege to read Six of Crows first. Which is arguably written for an older audience. Shadow and Bone is obviously written for a younger crowd, it still covers heavy topics and covers them well. But the “very special girl” and love triangle tropes are written with a certain audience in mind and because of that I found some parts extremely predictable and blah. I felt the same way about the Shatter Me series. It's something a younger me would have loved this and I still do like it but just not as much as I would have.