Something completely different and one of a kind! It's a very pre-industrial world feel with a Russian setting (and semi-language). Shadow and Bone is the story of two orphans that do anything to protect each other and their people. They live in a world cut in half by something called The Shadow Fold. There's no going around The Fold to get to other cities, but instead you must always cut through it. What lives in The Fold though is dark and treacherous and kills it no fear or remorse. The Volcra are deathly monsters within The Fold, and Alina will soon realize she may be the end to it all. The light across the path that can join everyone back together once again. Nothing is as it seems though and where there is light there is always darkness that follows. 
 I will for sure be reading on to the next book to find out what happens with The Fold, Alina, and Mal :)