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King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo

39 reviews

durrareadsstuff's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious reflective 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

4.5

Nikolai knew. He was a king who had only begun to make mistakes. He was a soldier for whom the war would never be over. He was a bastard left alone in the woods. And he was not afraid to die this day.

Oh wow, this book. 🤯🤯🤯 Leigh Bardugo just keeps on writing masterpieces. I was so excited for this book since, you know, Nikolai, duh🤭. Honestly at the beginning I was a little bit disappointed, I thought he was better in Siege and Storm. But, actually, the characters were consistent. We get to see another side to Nikolai, a more vulnerable and deep side and I loved it! I also despised Zoya before, but she's had her reasons for being a stone-cold witch. And in this book she is forced to face her past and because of that she became all the more powerful. I loved her POV, and as always with Leigh's characters - it was downright tragic. 

All the POVs in the book were awesome, and so was the writing. Nina being a spy was just - that girl kicks ass dude!! I liked how Nina embraces her "new" powers and the grief written in this book was completely heartbreaking 💔. Reading about her transitioning between characters reminded me of Nikolai in Siege and Storm again. I loved Adrik and Leoni, and how they're the total opposite of each other. Once again, Ms Bardugo teaches you about trauma, in this case about the two very different ways people handle them. Having Hanne in the storyline added a new vantage point, from the Fjerdans who were stuck in their customs. I was skeptical about Isaak, but he did the job well, so he's good. Princess Ehri, OH MY GOD. (I can't say much more without spoiling anything, so I'll just leave it at that.) 😉 

Another thing I absolutely adored: When the characters mention "the couple who runs the orphanage" and the crows, I sort of get nostalgic (?) Especially when Nina said she wished Inej was there, I STAN THEIR FRIENDHIP!!! 😍 Towards the end, plot twists kept coming like one of those automatic gun machines🔫. There is no way anyone could have guessed them. Or maybe I'm just naive, whatever. Anyway, the characters were developed so, so well. Even though you're not a total bada** like they are, you'll find yourself relating to parts of their stories, which makes them attach to yourself like super glue 😎 So much themes were discussed: Fjerdan bigotry, sexism, feminism, abandonment, child marriage, grief, and of course, facing your demons. 

This book was everything I imagined and please please, Rule of Wolves, don't disappoint me. I can't wait to see more of Zoyalai and just everything else! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Sexism

Moderate: Addiction, Religious bigotry, Misogyny, and Murder

Minor: Abandonment, Miscarriage, Abortion, Forced institutionalization, and Emotional abuse

brokencastles's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense 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

4.5

Such an amazing book as always from the Grishaverse, I wanted to to go on forever if I’m honest!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Kidnapping, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexism, and Torture

Moderate: Addiction and Fatphobia

sarahthebookwhore's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Death

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexism, Pregnancy, and Death

citymouse's review against another edition

3.0

Nina deserves to have her own series and her story entwined with Nikolai makes quite literally no sense. The book was good, but I would have preferred to see them as individual books rather than alternating between stories many lands apart. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Abortion, Child abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Sexism, and Trafficking

Minor: Animal death, Body horror, Infertility, Medical content, Religious bigotry, and Suicide attempt

valyn_grebe's review

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Drug use, Grief, and Gun violence

Minor: Animal death, Child abuse, Kidnapping, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Sexism, Slavery, and Vomit

maureenocal's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexism, and Slavery

kaylamoran's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Child death, Confinement, Death, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Miscarriage, Sexism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, and Xenophobia

kenziewol's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Death of parent, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Drug use, Drug abuse, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Sexism, Misogyny, Miscarriage, and Kidnapping

aviery's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Blood, Body horror, Death, Grief, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Drug use, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Torture, and Violence

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Sexism, Toxic relationship, and Trafficking