28% 
 Me first seeing this: OOOOOH LOOK IT'S A BOOK 
 Me reading the genres: UGH. HIGH FANTASY. 
 Me reading some reviews: WHO IS THIS DARKLING PERSON?! I MUST READ ABOUT HIM AT ONCE! 
 Me reading about the Darkling: *grins til my face hurts* 
 So it's about Alina Starkov, a mapmaker who just found out that she was a Grisha, a person with powers. And then a guy called the Darkling picked her up off the street and took her to a palace and blah blah blah RED. QUEEN. 
 This is the high-fantasy Russian version of Red Queen. Even though it's VERY similar, it's pretty good so far. 
 Oh, and the Darkling. HE IS PERFECT. He is the less intense version of Enzo from the Young Elites (don't read that review if you don't want to hear endless chatter about Enzo..). 
 BUT, I can really tell somehow that this book is going to disappoint me in some way. Srsly. 
 Update to come! 
 47% 
 ALINA HAS ESCAPED THE DARKLING. I SHOULD BE HAPPY. 
 But I am not. 
 She left him all because of some....some rumor from his mommy! ALINA DOESN'T EVEN KNOW FOR SURE IF WHAT HIS MOM SAID WAS TRUE! And what's she going to do now, huh? Go into hiding with her bratty friend Mal? Oh, and Mal, I don't like him AT ALL. I would have been happy if he died in the beginning. The Darkling seems...lonely. He needs Alina. He might even give her the stag to make her a Powerpuff Girl or something. She doesn't know! 
 Alina is light. The Darkling is darkness. MAL IS NOTHING. 
 Update to come. 
 Finished 
 Alina is probably the stupidest girl I have ever read about. 
 So the Darkling has Mal in his hands and then Alina helps him escape. 
 The End! 
 Turns out the Darkling actually really cares about Alina but all she can see is his darkness. 
 The End! 
 Mal is still the boring-but-according-to-Alina-handsome-powerless-crap-face guy we met in the beginning. 
 The. End. 
 (One star taken away because of the similarities to Red Queen and MAL.) 
 I'm definitely Team Darkling. He is just drop-dead AMAZING. He stole my heart and he refuses to give it back (srsly dude give it back I can't breath). He is just like Warner from Shatter Me...wants Alina to realize that she's different from everyone else in a good way. 
 I think I might read the next one!