cover for Shadow and Bone Leigh Bardugo

Book Talk…8/31/18: Leigh Bardugo’s Shadow and Bone
Traci Kenworth

Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo. 2012 Henry Holt & Co. Macmillan Publishing. YA Fantasy.

The blurb from Amazon: Enter the Grishaverse with Book One of the Shadow and Bone Trilogy by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom.

Soldier. Summoner. Saint. Orphaned and expendable, Alina Starkov is a soldier who knows she may not survive her first trek across the Shadow Fold—a swath of unnatural darkness crawling with monsters. But when her regiment is attacked, Alina unleashes dormant magic not even she knew she possessed.
Now Alina will enter a lavish world of royalty and intrigue as she trains with the Grisha, her country’s magical military elite—and falls under the spell of their notorious leader, the Darkling. He believes Alina can summon a force capable of destroying…