Shadow and Bone
TITLE: Shadow and Bone
AUTHOR: Liegh Bardugo
BOOK FILE TYPE: PDF / Read Online
LANGUAGE: English
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Shadow and Bone” is a modern masterpiece, a powerful novel that can be read on its own. This novel is written by Leigh Bardugo. She is a true storyteller, and Shadow and Bone is her best book. It’s an epic tale of family, secrets, loss, marriage, betrayal, friendships, laughter, and regrets. Shadow and Bone is a heartfelt novel written with compassion and hope, reconciling the past to pave a road to happiness and second chances.
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CHAPTERT
STANDING ON THE EDGE of a crowded road, I looked down onto the rolling
fields and abandoned farms of the Tula Valley and got my first glimpse of the
Shadow Fold. My regiment was two weeks' march from the military
encampment at Poliznaya and the autumn sun was warm overhead, but I
shivered in my coat as I eyed the haze that lay like a dirty smudge on the
horizon.
A heavy shoulder slammed into me from behind. I stumbled and nearly
pitched face-first into the muddy road.
"Hey!" shouted the soldier. "Watch yourself!"
"Why don't you watch your fat feet?" I snapped, and took some satisfaction
from the surprise that came over his broad face. People, particularly big men
carrying big rifles, don't expect lip from a scrawny thing like me. They always
look a bit dazed when they get it.
The soldier got over the novelty quickly and gave me a dirty look as he
adjusted the pack on his back, then disappeared into the caravan of horses, men,
carts, and wagons streaming over the crest of the hill and into the valley below.
I quickened my steps, trying to peer over the crowd. I'd lost sight of the
yellow flag of the surveyors' cart hours ago, and I knew I was far behind.
As I walked, I took in the green and gold smells of the autumn wood, the soft
breeze at my back. We were on the Vy, the wide road that had once led all the
way from Os Alta to the wealthy port cities on Ravka's western coast. But that
was before the Shadow Fold.
Somewhere in the crowd, someone was singing. Singing? What idiot is
singing on his way into the Fold? I glanced again at that smudge on the horizon
and had to suppress a shudder. I'd seen the Shadow Fold on many maps, a black
slash that had severed Ravka from its only coastline and left it landlocked.
Sometimes it was shown as a stain, sometimes as a bleak and shapeless cloud.
And then there were the maps that just showed the Shadow Fold as a long,
narrow lake and labeled it by its other name, "the Unsea," a name intended to
put soldiers and merchants at their ease and encourage crossings.
I snarted. That might fool some fat merchant, but it was little comfort to me.
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