Ms. Hen reviews Siege and Storm

 

Siege and Storm

Leigh Bardugo

Square Fish

2013

This is the second book in the trilogy after SHADOW AND BONE, and Ms. Hen is reading the books one by one, with some others in between for variety; Alina Starkov runs away with Mal, and is hunted by the Darkling, she saves the crew, and she ends up back at the Little Palace again, and she becomes the leader of the Second Army, but she doesn't know if she's up to the task; Ms. Hen thinks that every chapter has a tasty bite of something good in it; Mal isn't the way he used to be with Alina, and that upsets her, she wants to fight the Darkling's armies, but she doesn't think she has the strength, and she doesn't get much support; Ms. Hen likes the idea of a girl saving the world, even though that is not traditional, but she doesn't like tradition anyway, after all, look where that has brought us, we're in so deep that we don't know how to fix things; Ms. Hen wants to find a new tradition, and she thinks that stories like this could help us to save the world, if not completely, then possibly part of the way...