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Ley de Lobos by Leigh Bardugo

128 reviews

kelsey_erin's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful 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

I have loved everything about the Grishaverse, but this book truly sealed the deal on that love. The development of each character, their growth and realization that love cannot come without loss and pain was so human and heartbreaking. This was the first book in a long time that had me shocked at the end and left me in tears. More like this, please.

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bentz09's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful 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

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banksy200's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous dark funny sad 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

AHHHHHHH. I love everything about this book, the characters, plot, writing style... The representation feels great for me and done so well (HANNE IYKYK).

my only problem is the ending, as it felt the duology gelt built up so much for Zoyalai only to not get much out of them. It was slightly disappointing as i was rooting for them since the start but i still loved it. It feels like its perfectly set up a soc 3 and kos crossover, which I'm sad there isn't. On a side note: DAVID.

The book broke my heart and pieced it back together in the best way.

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fininwonderland's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional 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

“𝘔𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘪𝘧𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘥𝘰 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘶𝘱- 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘵.”

This was an incredible conclusion to the King of Scars duology! I feel like I just keep repeating myself in the reviews for the Grishaverse, but the world building- writing style- and characters were once again incredible!

The stakes in Rule of Wolves were so high, every page was action filled, but at its core it was a beautiful story about resilience, identity, power, sacrifice, grief, and love. Throughout all of the Grishaverse books the dynamics between the characters have been my favourite, and Rule of Wolves was no different; I loved getting to see more of them.

Bardugo did an incredible job at keeping the readers immersed in the story, and each POV truly felt like its own, yet they tied together beautifully. I also loved seeing the mentions to both the Shadow and Bone trilogy, and the Six of Crows duology. Overall, it was outstanding once again! I’ll miss this world!

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keimre734's review against another edition

3.5

challenging emotional mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

3.5 out of 5 stars

Rule of Wolves is the second book in the King of Scars Duology. Just like the first book, this one follows Prince Nikolai, Zoya, and Nina. Nikolai and Zoya work together to try to protect Ravka from the impending war while Nina is in disguise in Fjerda.

This is the seventh book I've read by Leigh Bardugo. Out of all of her books, I have to say that I enjoyed this duology the least. The story goes through interesting parts and boring parts. I kept pushing myself through though because I wanted to finish the story.

I really wish we could’ve learned what happened with Mayu and Reyem. Were any of the grisha scientists able to remove the metal from his body and return him back to normal?

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taschenuhr's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious 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: Complicated

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jbaymowmow's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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_lavenderhazel_'s review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad 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

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beckyyreadss's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging 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

I wanted to read this book because I enjoyed King of Scars and wanted to know how the duology ended. I wanted to throw this book at a wall so many times.

This book has several POVs, the first is The Demon King, Nikolai Lantsov and as Fjerda’s massive army prepares to invade, he will summon every bit of his ingenuity and charm and even the monster within to win this fight. But as a dark threat loom that cannot be defeated by a young king’s gift for the impossible. The second point of view is the Stormwitch, Zora Nazyalensky and she has lost too much. To war. She saw her mentor die and her worst enemy resurrected and she refuses to bury another friend. Now duty demands she embraces her powers to become the weapon her country needs. No matter the cost. The last point of view is The Queen of Morning, Nina Zenik and she is deep undercover and risk discovery and death as she wages war on Fjerda from inside the capital. But her desire for revenge may cost her country its chance at freedom and Nina the chance to heal her grieving heart. The King, The General and The Spy must find a way to forge a future in the darkness or watch a nation fall.

I think I ended up enjoying this book more because the characters were already built and were traumatized with the war that it felt like the fourth and final book in the Crooked Kingdom series rather than a brand-new series. The world has already been fully developed, and the characters have been developed. I love the multiple points of view and how they are all got their own storyline, but you can tell it’s building up to something so much bigger and I was waiting for the bigger thing to happen and it kind of got lost. I loved Zoya still and I love the character development she had in this book, and I was rooting for her all the way.

Killing off one of my favourite characters and destroying the healthiest relationship within this series stopped this book from being five stars. Especially because you thought he was going to be okay and that he was just going to be injured and then it jumped to his funeral. I was raging, am still raging. Plus, I felt like the Darkling’s end was a little anti-climactic after everything he has put them through, and he just gives up. I was expecting more from The Darkling. The middle bit was a bit slow, and I was kind of skim reading it to get to the final battle because it was just everyone reuniting or planning.

Overall, this series was better than Shadow and Bone, but I don’t think anything will top Six of Crows.

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soph22's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad 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: Complicated

I went into this with some trepidation after seeing a few negative reviews for this book, but I personally loved it! Okay, I’m definitely a Nikolai girly, and that does help, but this is easily as good as any in the original trilogy. Six of Crows is better, I’ll admit, but at this point I’d read a menu if these characters had a cameo.
From the point of view of someone who writes and if studying the art of crafting a novel, I need to point out just how impressive it is to create a book with this many points of view and distinctive character voices - that skill alone is worth an extra star.
The only problem I have is the ending - where’s the next book, Leigh? I need to know what happens next.

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