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King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo

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betweentheshelves's review against another edition

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adventurous dark slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Not my favorite Grishaverse novel (that still goes to Crooked Kingdom), but I like seeing what's happening with some of the characters after that! I'll admit, there's definitely a cliffhanger here and I've heard that Rule of Wolves is even better. My library copy needs to get in now so I can read it!!

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gothicmoon's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

revisiting nikolai and zoya in their own stories, by a much more experienced author... i am overwhelmed. i loved the main characters of this story. recurring characters such as adrik, leoni, and the rest of the triumvirate remain weak and rather unmemorable as side characters.

not five stars because nina's story doesn't really connect with nikolai and zoya's. it just feels like two books smashed together, and even though i was interested in both, the cuts were annoying. i didn't want to put nikolai's story down nor nina's once i got back into it, but together they were disconnected. it doesn't help that nikolai's story branches into two later and the three stories just get in each other's way. 

nina is bi

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fairytaleriots's review against another edition

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adventurous dark funny tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? N/A
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This book is insane. Fun! But insane

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valyn_grebe's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0


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maureenocal's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious sad fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I loved every minute. It’s the perfect follow-up to the Crows duology with tons of references to old characters and previous action. I waited to read this until I also had the sequel (Rule of Wolves) in my hands because once I realized Leigh wasn’t writing it as a standalone, I knew the end would leave me screaming. And it did, oh it did it suuure did.

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readwithria's review against another edition

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adventurous dark medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0


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outsidestar's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This book was a lot less about Nikolai and a lot more about Zoya and Nina than I expected. I still haven't made up my mind on whether that's a bad thing, a good thing, or just a thing.

I found that, as much as I loved Nina in Six of Crows, I didn't really care about her story line other than for the references to Matthias, Jesper, Kaz and the rest of the SoC gang.

Then there's Nikolai's and Zoya's story, where Nikolai is basically a side character. I didn't dislike Zoya in Shadow and Bone, especially not by the end of the trilogy, and I really enjoyed her story and arc in King of Scars. Shout-out to her relationship with Juris, by the way. Chef's kiss.

"You are strong enough to survive the fall."

 "You are not protecting yourself by shutting yourself off from the world. You are limiting yourself." 

And let me point out our beloved king Nikolai. I feel like his character was basically used to make Zoya more likeable and give the rest of the crew at the palace something to do (which I didn't really care much about either). He was a side character in his own book. I was expecting the awesomeness of the Nikolai we met in Siege and Storm, the Nikolai who charmed us all into loving him, but here he was kind of... dull? As dull as Nikolai can get, that is.

Although I did find this book was kind of slow at the beginning, I was happy to see all the crew back together again. I loved the dynamics between them, seeing how they have become a family, especially the friendship between Genya and Zoya, and I really really really hope Nikolai and Zoya will realize they are perfect for each other and actually dare to act on it. That's basically all I care about, I honestly don't care about
the war looming in the horizon or the return of you-know-who.

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kaylamoran's review against another edition

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adventurous dark medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Better than Shadow and Bone, but not as good as Six of Crows.  I'm glad Leigh stuck with the multiple perspectives set up, as I much prefer it.  However I will say that one of the storylines was much less interesting than the other ones, at least for me.

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emmagrace's review against another edition

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adventurous tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.5


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kenziewol's review against another edition

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adventurous fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

I love this book!! I seriously couldn’t put it down, it was addicting. Nikolai is my favorite grishaverse character so I am not too surprised I loved this books so much, but I didn’t expect to love Zoya as much as I do now! I also loved getting to continue Nina’s story! One of my favorite things is jumping between the different plot lines, it kept the book intriguing and had me reading as fast as I could. I loved seeing familiar faces and there was so much I genuinely didn’t seem coming. I loved this book so much and I’m so sad I’m done reading it. I know I only have 2 weeks until rule of wolves is out, but man idk how I’m gonna survive — especially with that ending (I feel for all you who read this when it came out).

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