Shadow and Bone · Book 3

Ruin and Rising

by Leigh Bardugo

Published
17 June 2014
Pages
427
ISBN-13
9781780621166
Type
novel

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About this book

Ruin and Rising closes Leigh Bardugo's Shadow and Bone trilogy in June 2014 at 427 pages, published a year after Siege and Storm to complete Sun Summoner Alina Starkov's single continuous story. It resolves the war against the Shadow Fold and the love triangle between safety (Mal) and power (the Darkling) that launched the entire Grishaverse, the trilogy Six of Crows and beyond build outward from.

Its place in Shadow and Bone

Ruin and Rising is book 3 in the Shadow and Bone series. It follows Siege and Storm. See the full Shadow and Bone reading order.

Alina Starkov is an orphan mapmaker in the war-torn, Tsarist-Russia-inspired kingdom of Ravka when she discovers she's a Sun Summoner -- the one Grisha power rare and strong enough to destroy the Shadow Fold, the swath of magical darkness swallowing her country. Pulled from the army into the opulent, dangerous world of the Grisha, she's trained by the Darkling, the most powerful (and most magnetic) Grisha alive, while her childhood friend Mal searches for her from the other side of the war. This is the trilogy…

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