Rule of Wolves

god why do I get into these YA fantasy brick epic sagas!! I picked this up and read a few pages and was like “literally who...?” and had to spend like half an hour on fan wikis to get back up to speed. (Sure in an ideal world I could re-read the series but likeeeeeeeee c'mon, I got stuff to do, other books to read and forget)

Anyway once I got over that perpetual grievance I was just like



Once I remembered who these characters were: I loved them!! I struggled with them!

I delighted when they all got their happy endings!! I stan Nina's new trans prince!!!! Yassss!!!

And of course....I loved that it's blatantly setting itself up for another spinoff series, which I will absolutely read, after reading a wiki summary to remind myself what happened in Rule of Wolves.

ok but six of crows 3 when?

Spoilers ahead, obviously.

This book is... wild, a rollercoaster of emotions and actions. We have yearning, love, grief, everything a person could ever endure and more. And we never got a break of it, and I loved it. I loved the quick pacing, the constant action, the constant schemes and switching pov's that made it harder to think of what might come and what someone might know.

I found King of Scars incredibly slow, boring and frustrating for the first 200 pages or so, but as I said before that is absolutely NOT the case for Rule of Wolves.

This was an absolute thrill of a book to read and an absolute 5/5 star and now I feel like King of Scars deserves 3/3,5 at best.

Then, the characters.
Nikolai and Zoya are both favorite characters and I was glad to see their arcs be completed and their relationship finally being established as well.
I loved seeing Alina and Mal even if it was for a small while and the same goes to the Darkling, the only character who I didn't quite understand this book.
Nina was amazing to read about and her relationship with Hanne felt natural and cute.
I'm just quite happy with this book and I loved it very much.