King of Scars

Leigh Bardugo

Imprint, Jan 29, 2019 - Young Adult Fiction - 528 pages

A 2020 LOCUS AWARD FINALIST!

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Discover what comes next for daring rogue Nikolai in King of Scars, the start of this captivating new duology from #1 bestselling author, Leigh Bardugo.

"[Bardugo] touches on religion, class, family, love — all organically, all effortlessly, all cloaked in the weight of a post-war reckoning with the cost (literal and figurative) of surviving the events that shape both people and nations." —NPR

"The story exists at an intersection of past and future selves, and in the dawning understanding that what you most fear may be what you most need." —Washington Post

Face your demons...or feed them. The dashing young king, 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, Nikolai 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 general, 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.

Read all the books in the Grishaverse!

The Shadow and Bone Trilogy
(previously published as The Grisha Trilogy)
Shadow and Bone
Siege and Storm
Ruin and Rising

The Six of Crows Duology
Six of Crows
Crooked Kingdom

The King of Scars Duology
King of Scars
Rule of Wolves

The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic
The Severed Moon: A Year-Long Journal of Magic
The Lives of Saints
Demon in the Wood Graphic Novel

Praise for the Grishaverse

“A master of fantasy.” —The Huffington Post
“Utterly, extremely bewitching.” —The Guardian
“This is what fantasy is for.” —The New York Times Book Review
“A world that feels real enough to have its own passport stamp.” —NPR
“The darker it gets for the good guys, the better.” —Entertainment Weekly
“Sultry, sweeping and picturesque. . . . Impossible to put down.” —USA Today
“There’s a level of emotional and historical sophistication within Bardugo’s original epic fantasy that sets it apart.” —Vanity Fair
“Unlike anything I’ve ever read.” —Veronica Roth, bestselling author of Divergent
“Bardugo crafts a first-rate adventure, a poignant romance, and an intriguing mystery!” —Rick Riordan, bestselling author of the Percy Jackson series

What people are saying

LibraryThing Review

User Review  - jennybeast - LibraryThing

I was quite impressed that I was able to follow this story so many years after reading the first 2 series, and there wasn't a huge info-dump at the beginning to facilitate it -- that takes some skill ...

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User Review  - jmchshannon - LibraryThing

After reading all about the Crows in the previous duology, I cannot say I am a fan of Leigh Bardugo’s King of Scars. I found the entire book very repetitive and slow. Once I finished, I had to take a ...

Contents

• Section 1: 3
• Section 2: 14
• Section 3: 29
• Section 4: 53
• Section 5: 65
• Section 6: 105
• Section 7: 131
• Section 8: 160
• Section 9: 174
• Section 10: 192
• Section 11: 219
• Section 12: 238
• Section 13: 266
• Section 14: 276
• Section 15: 284
• Section 16: 299
• Section 17: 314
• Section 18: 324
• Section 19: 332
• Section 20: 352
• Section 21: 370
• Section 22: 383
• Section 23: 401
• Section 24: 407
• Section 25: 416
• Section 26: 438
• Section 27: 449
• Section 28: 461
• Section 29: 467
• Section 30: 474
• Section 31: 481
• Section 32: 486
• Section 33: 493
• Section 34: 497
• Section 35: 501
• Section 36: 513
• Section 37: 515
• Section 38: 517

About the author

Leigh Bardugo is the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of the Ninth House series and the creator of the Grishaverse, which spans the Shadow and Bone trilogy (now a Netflix series), the Six of Crows duology, the King of Scars duology—and much more. Her short fiction has appeared in multiple anthologies, including The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy. She lives in Los Angeles and is an associate fellow of Pauli Murray College at Yale University.

Bibliographic information

• Title: King of Scars; Volume 1 of King of Scars Duology
• Author: Leigh Bardugo
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Imprint, 2019
• ISBN: 125014227X, 9781250142276
• Length: 528 pages
• Subjects: Young Adult Fiction / Action & Adventure / General; Young Adult Fiction / Fantasy / General