Ruin and Rising

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Ruin and Rising

by Leigh Bardugo

See the Grishaverse come to life on screen with the Netflix series, Shadow and Bone. Daring rogue Nikolai finally joins the fold in Season 2 -- covering explosive events of both Siege and Storm and Ruin and Rising -- streaming now! Enter the Grishaverse with Book Three of the Shadow and Bone Trilogy by the #1 New York Timesโ€“bestselling author of Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom. Soldier. Summoner. Saint. The nationโ€™s fate rests with a broken Sun Summoner, a disgraced tracker, and the shattered remnants of a once-great magical army. The Darkling rules from his shadow throne while a weakened Alina Starkov recovers from their battle under the dubious protection of the zealots who worship her as a Saint. Now her hopes lie with the magic of a long-vanished ancient creature and the chance that an outlaw prince still survives. As her allies and enemies race toward war, only Alina stands between her country and a rising tide of darkness that could destroy the world. To win this fight, she must seize a legendโ€™s powerโ€”but claiming the firebird may be her ruin. A New York Times Bestselling Series A USA Today Bestseller This title has Common Core connections. Read all the books in the Grishaverse! The Shadow and Bone Trilogy (previously published as The Grisha Trilogy) Shadow and Bone Siege and Storm Ruin and Rising The Six of Crows Duology Six of Crows Crooked Kingdom The King of Scars Duology King of Scars Rule of Wolves The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic The Severed Moon: A Year-Long Journal of Magic The Lives of Saints Demon in the Wood Graphic Novel Praise for the Grishaverse โ€œA master of fantasy.โ€ โ€”The Huffington Post โ€œUtterly, extremely bewitching.โ€ โ€”The Guardian โ€œThis is what fantasy is for.โ€ โ€”The New York Times Book Review โ€œA world that feels real enough to have its own passport stamp.โ€ โ€”NPR โ€œThe darker it gets for the good guys, the better.โ€ โ€”Entertainment Weekly โ€œSultry, sweeping and picturesque. . . . Impossible to put down.โ€ โ€”USA Today โ€œThereโ€™s a level of emotional and historical sophistication within Bardugoโ€™s original epic fantasy that sets it apart.โ€ โ€”Vanity Fair โ€œUnlike anything Iโ€™ve ever read.โ€ โ€”Veronica Roth, bestselling author of Divergent โ€œBardugo crafts a first-rate adventure, a poignant romance, and an intriguing mystery!โ€ โ€”Rick Riordan, bestselling author of the Percy Jackson series

About the Author

About Leigh Bardugo

LEIGH BARDUGO is the #1 New York Timesโ€“bestselling author of The Familiar and the Ninth House series, and the creator of the Grishaverse, which spans the Shadow and Bone trilogy (now a Netflix series), the Six of Crows duology, the King of Scars duologyโ€”and much more. Her short fiction has appeared in multiple anthologies, including The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy. She lives in Los Angeles and is an associate fellow of Pauli Murray College at Yale University.