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Il re delle cicatrici by Leigh Bardugo

53 reviews

gothicmoon's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Drug use, Grief, Murder, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Drug use, Grief, Hate crime, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Suicide, Trafficking, and Vomit

emmagrace's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Violence, Drug abuse, Addiction, Animal death, Blood, Drug use, and Gore

Moderate: Genocide, Confinement, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Kidnapping, Murder, Pedophilia, Slavery, and Misogyny

Minor: Miscarriage, Cursing, Xenophobia, and Religious bigotry

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