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  • Rule of Wolves

  • King of Scars Duology, Book 2
  • Written by: Leigh Bardugo
  • Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
  • Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (297 ratings)

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Rule of Wolves

Written by: Leigh Bardugo
Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
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Publisher's Summary

The Grishaverse will be coming to Netflix soon with Shadow and Bone, an original series!

The wolves are circling, and a young king will face his greatest challenge in the explosive finale of the instant number-one New York Times best-selling King of Scars Duology.

The Demon King. As Fjerda’s massive army prepares to invade, Nikolai Lantsov will summon every bit of his ingenuity and charm - and even the monster within - to win this fight. But a dark threat looms that cannot be defeated by a young king’s gift for the impossible.

The Stormwitch. Zoya Nazyalensky has lost too much to war. She saw her mentor die and her worst enemy resurrected, and she refuses to bury another friend. Now duty demands she embrace her powers to become the weapon her country needs. No matter the cost.

The Queen of Mourning. Deep undercover, Nina Zenik risks discovery and death as she wages war on Fjerda from inside its capital. But her desire for revenge may cost her country its chance at freedom and Nina the chance to heal her grieving heart.

King. General. Spy. Together they must find a way to forge a future in the darkness. Or watch a nation fall.

©2021 Leigh Bardugo (P)2020 Audible, Inc.

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I loved every minute of it!!

This duology is my favourite out of the Grishaverse! I can't wait for what is to come!!

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Thoroughly enjoyable

I loved this book, the narrator's performance and the plot. i highly recommend it.

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yes

yes yes yes yes please I want more. .. . . . . .

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GUYS 😭👏🏼😍

So this has officially become my favorite book that Leigh has written. 😭😍 It has taken over as reigning champ from the Six of Crows duology and fully captured my heart. The first book was awesome but this one was just freaking beautiful. Seeing everyone come together from past books made me so giddy I could hardly contain myself. It was a ride of emotions and the ENDING?! Ugh just amazing. But also not only was it just a fantastic book but let’s give it up for Lauren Fortgang because she rocked it and is absolutely is one of my favorite narrators. All around 10 outta 10 y’all. 👏🏼👏🏼

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Amazing!

Perfectly wrapped up many story lines and tugged at all of my heartstrings! This was an amazing audiobook.

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Amazing

I love Leigh Bardugo's masterful ability to surprise you again and again with clever and well thought out plot twists

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Even better than Shadow & Bone

I picked up King of Scars and Rule of Wolves because I lo Ed the characters of Nikolai and Zoya. I was curious about what problems could arise after Alina defeated the Darkling in the Shadow & Bone series.

I was supremely pleased with the narrative and very much enjoyed the mutual slow burn pining. 10/10 would recommend.

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Pretty good

No raunchy sex scenes
Some lgbt stuff
Probably not my favourite Leigh Bardugo story
Bye

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AMAZING

Great plot, great ending, can't wait for what's next. If you enjoyed the six of crows dualogy you will enjoy this as well

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love these books

I am truly enjoy the store and the characters and how thing have been going it is a great listen and keeps me guessing

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  • 2021-03-30

All is forgiven, Ms. Bardugo

For those like me, who loved The Six of Crows duology but only liked Shadow and Bone as it moved away from Alina’s story and, towards, well, anyone else, this conclusion to King of Scars is fantastic. While there’s still not enough of Kaz’s crew, there’s at least more than before, and a small heist for old times sake. Also, finally the action, steam punk, and twists are on full display. Finally!

Were there some off points? Perhaps. Not sure I buy the way things ended with the Darkling. And it does feel like most of the characters’ endings were written to please the fans, rather than to provide a plausible endings to all three series in the “we always get the short end of the stick” Grishaverse. But, on the whole, I was a little wrecked, somewhat surprised and ultimately well satisfied with this ending.

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  • Bailey
  • 2021-04-01

Simply amazing

I’ve been waiting for about 6-7 months for this book to release and boy oh boy let me tell you that it did NOT disappoint me. I absolutely can’t wait for the next installment of this series! Amazing read with massive ups and downs on the roller coaster of emotions. I love this book.

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  • Taylor
  • 2021-04-07

Parts of it are amazing

The A plot of this book is absolutely incredible. Everything with Zoya and Nikolai is utterly perfect and amazing. The B plot with Nina and eventually the C plot with Tamar and D plot with the Darkling are incredibly boring and I spent every second of all three of them just waiting to get back to the A plot. Too many stories going on at once with almost nothing interesting in them to justify so many splits in the plot. You could cut out Tamar and Mayu’s perspective of the C plot and The Darkling’s perspective of the D plot from the book and the book would be literally no different 🤷🏻‍♂️.

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  • A. Michals
  • 2021-09-22

disappointed

author had to get politically correct in a time period that would never had such controversy...

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  • Julie
  • 2021-05-02

My favorite book of the entire Grishaverse…

Lauren Fortgang as the narrator is incredible . This book brings so many of our beloved character’s stories to riveting conclusions and others find their much deserved endings in poetic justice. Well done all the way around!

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  • Mikal
  • 2021-04-08

Anyone else sensing a new Six of Crows??

Am I the only one super amped with a feeling about a new Six of Crows cast series from that ending? I can't even begin to describe my glee at the prospect 🤍

Overall Fantastic! I ate up every word. I also very much enjoy the narrator. She does a remarkable job switching characters and matching accents in different cadence's to give a sense of culture to each country.

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  • Thomas Hartmann
  • 2021-05-06

A WILD Ride

Love Lauren Fortgang and her voices! Some of the last bits of the story I wanted to see happen just nit that quickly and now I'm caught up/finished(?) with the Grishaverse... what now?

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  • Tanya
  • 2021-04-25

WOW!!!

It's been forever since a story had me in it's thrall this completely! There are 3 stories going on and they converge at the end. Each one keeps you guessing. The last 3 hrs, I was wondering how they'd ever wrap up all of it and worried the ending would be hurried. These last 3 hrs were the most exciting I've listened to in sooo long. I was coming home from a roadtrip and I swear I almost stopped a few times. A couple of times I actually let go of the gas because I was just shocked, surprised, or jubilant. Amazing storytelling! The narrator is one of the best I've heard in the last 2 yrs. I knew each voice, was never confused about who was speaking, and the emotion she put into the characters was perfect!

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  • Karen
  • 2021-04-17

Fabulous!

This book has everything! The story is amazing and the characters stay true to themselves while still evolving. Nina and Hannah are the brightest stars in the alphabet mafia.

Fortgang is amazing as always. Truly a perfect reading of a perfect book.

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  • Kindle Customer
  • 2021-04-09

Excellent

I loved it. I loved the characters and their story. I can't wait to listen to more by this author. The narration was excellent also.

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  • M
  • 2021-10-03

Amazing!

A great Audiobook and an amazing End to the King of scar Duology!

*********l spoilers not relevant to the primary story******

It also alludes to a new mission for the crows, which obviously fills me with joy :D

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