King of Scars
2019 • 514 pages

Ratings262

Average rating4.2

15

Well that was fairly rubbish until the last 70 pages or so.

There's 3 POV main characters (and 1 POV side character) but one of the main characters is completely disconnected from the story. She could be omitted entirely with every one of her chapters removed and the story would remain exactly the same. It's 2 separate stories in one book.

It's a follow on from Bardugo's Shadow and Bone Trilogy but it reads like slightly above average fanfic. The magic is beginning to suffer from power creep, resurrections (which is stupid - entirely defeats the purpose of Shadow and Bone), forced romance, puns that aren't funny, and too many references to her other books.

August 15, 2020