
REBECCA’S REPORT On the 25th September I was privileged enough to be invited to a book blogger’s event in London to meet the lovely Leigh Bardugo, author of THE GATHERING DARK (Shadow & Bone in the US). I reviewed this for BCC a while ago, and it was the first book I gave 5 stars to for the site. It was a book that really captured my imagination, and I was super excited to meet the author. I was lucky enough to have been given the opportunity to interview Leigh…

Welcome to THE GATHERING DARK Blog Tour – we are stop 12! To check out who else is on the tour go to this website to see the full list of participating blogs. We’re very excited to welcome Leigh to Book Chick City – Rebecca loved The Gathering Dark and you can read her 5 star review here. Leigh Bardugo was born in Jerusalem, grew up in Los Angeles, and graduated from Yale University. She indulges her fondness for glamour, ghouls, and costuming in her other life as makeup artist L.B. Benson….

The Gathering Dark / Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo (The Grisha #1) Indigo (June 2012) Paperback, 240 pages YA Fantasy The Gathering Dark by Leigh Bardugo is a thrilling YA fantasy novel set in a fictional world where Grisha live side-by-side with humans, serving the King of Ravka in the war with the surrounding regions. The plot is intricately carved, with this novel providing a strong basis for the future books in the trilogy and carving out the foundations of the Grisha universe. Grisha are wielders of magic so to…