Synopsis:

Nikolai Lantsov has always had a gift for the impossible. No one knows what he endured in his country’s bloody civil war—and he intends to keep it that way. Now, as enemies gather at his weakened borders, the young king must find a way to refill Ravka’s coffers, forge new alliances, and stop a rising threat to the once-great Grisha Army.

Yet with every day a dark magic within him grows stronger, threatening to destroy all he has built. With the help of a young monk and a legendary Grisha Squaller, Nikolai will journey to the places in Ravka where the deepest magic survives to vanquish the terrible legacy inside him. He will risk everything to save his country and himself. But some secrets aren’t meant to stay buried—and some wounds aren’t meant to heal.

Review:

This was a disappointing read for me. Ain’t no way to sugar coat that.

Don’t get me wrong Bardugo is one of my favourite writers of all time, and it is great to read her work grow and develop into amazing works of art. You can the love put into the dialogue and the building of the characters and the world. However this wasn’t displayed in the plot which was a bit of a pain.

Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom were hands down her greatest books, I mean there is a long list of reasons why it is better than the Grisha Trilogy but that’s a rant for another day. Following the greatest duology and a mehhh trilogy you think that King of Scars would be pure amazing… or so one would think.

You start of hyped, with you coffee hot and at the ready, open that glorious gold cover to read what you think will be the best thing you read in your life. Instead you start reading and you get 100 pages in and NOTHING HAAS REALLY HAPPENED. Then you get 250 pages in and it’s flashbacks and kind of get a bit of a plot point going.

It was great to read about Nina again, it really was but the rest of the story fell, flat on their face.

Maybe the sequel will be better?

Rating: 3/5

Publisher:  Orion

ISBN: 9781510105669