This book was so good!
In all honesty I didn't think that I would enjoy it this much. I heard a lot about this series and kinda got high expectation for it because of that before I even started reading. This is probably also why I can't give it a full 5 stars but it's definetly a 4.5 star book for me.

I think the story was interesting and well done. Sure there are similar stories out there but I didn't mind that at all while reading. I was fearing, tgat the first book will only be about Alinas training but luckily it wasn't.

The characters were really cool. I kinda like Mal the best of them. The darkling was a very interesting character as well but he really didn't click with me as much. Because of that I wasn't really fond of the love triangle in this book.

The book itself had some kind of a Russian side theme (character having Russian names and there were certain words in Russian I believe) but it sadly wasn't brought up as much. Or at least in my opinion. That was a bit unfortunate but I didn't mind that much about it tho as the story was still very enjoyable.

I absolutely loved the writing stile. It was a very easy and fast book to read. I was captivated by the dtory and the world which made this book a page turner for me.

I can't wait to read the second book ^____^