King of Scars

I want to thank Destiny and Erin for finally getting me to read this book by buddy reading it with me. I always have so much fun buddy reading with y'all. 

This book is hard to review without spoiling things but I am going to try not to spoil anything. It's told in multiple POVs just like Six of Crows and it switches between each characters POV which can be frustrating especially if someone's chapter ends on a cliffhanger and you really want to know what's going to happen next. The main POVs we get are from Nikolai, Nina and Zoya. I was enjoying Nina's storyline more than I was Nikolai and Zoya's. Zoya has always been a character I really didn't like and that was the case for the beginning of this book but we do get to see a different side of her in this book that I hope carry's on into the next book. It's pretty slow going for the majority of the book because we are getting a good bit of backstory on the characters some of which if you've read the other series she has written you will already know but we do get new information as well. To me Nina's chapters were moving the book along and Nikolai and Zoya's chapters made it slog a little bit. This isn't necessarily a bad thing though. Despite the slowness I was invested in the story I just personally would have enjoyed it slightly more if it wasn't so slow going. 

I struggled with how to talk about the ending of this book because I definitely have thoughts I just didn't know how to say what I wanted to say without spoiling things for y'all and I really didn't want to do that. Upon reading other peoples reviews I came across one review that explained it perfectly so I will link to her review here. Although now that I am writing it I feel like this could still be a bit spoilery so read at your own risk. When I read the ending I was mad. Did it shock me, yes. Was it a twist I didn't expect to happen, again yes but as Maja said in her review it's kind of a setback and that's really all I can say without full on spoiling everything. Overall I am invested in these characters once again and I can't wait to read the follow up because I want to know how things play out for each of them.