The Shadow and Bone series (Grishaverse)
All you need to know about SHADOW AND BONE TRILOGY Author : Leigh Bardugo The once-great Ravka is in shambles. The country has been torn apart by the Shadow Fold, a barrier that is almost impossible to penetrate and is inhabited by flesh-eating monsters of darkness. The country itself has been ravaged by civil war and the citizens are in pitiful conditions, and the cities seem to have graveyards that extend far wider than the cities themselves. Alina Starkov had never been capable of much. A sickly child when she was younger, and a plain young woman with abysmal social skills and a grouchy personality, Alina had been a lonely orphan most of her life, save for her only friend, Malyen Oretsev. Best friends since birth, both orphaned by war and yet serving as soldiers in a regiment, they'd only ever had each other, though Mal's less grumpy temperament gained him more companions. But when a journey into the Shadow Fold proves disastrous and it seems that the entire regiment was