eBook, 448 pages
English language
Published June 4, 2013 by Henry Holt and Co..
Soldier. Summoner. Saint. Alina Starkov’s power has grown, but not without a price. She is the Sun Summoner—hunted across the True Sea, haunted by the lives she took on the Shadow Fold. But she and Mal can’t outrun their enemies for long.
The Darkling is more determined than ever to claim Alina’s magic and use it to take the Ravkan throne. With nowhere else to turn, Alina enlists the help of an infamous privateer and sets out to lead the Grisha army.
But as the truth of Alina's destiny unfolds, she slips deeper into the Darkling’s deadly game of forbidden magic, and further away from her humanity. To save her country, Alina will have to choose between her power and the love she thought would always be her shelter. No victory can come without sacrifice—and only she can face the oncoming storm.
The first book had a decent pace and a lot of things happened to keep it going. In the second part of the series, the characters go from flawed to annoying and dumb. It's a bit of a shame given that there was so much room for character development, but i actually had to put the book aside for a bit because it was getting too frustrating to follow the journey of dumb people
