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Rule of Wolves, by Leigh Bardugo

16 reviews

marine2907's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Drug abuse, Blood, Death, Kidnapping, War, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/injury detail, Murder, Abandonment, Medical content, Violence, Body horror, and Child abuse

jessiereads98's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Leigh Bardugo’s best work. The world she’s built through the past 2 duologies comes together beautifully here. Seeing past characters again was a delight. The pacing here is also consistent rather than shoving a bunch of action into the final 100 pages. My heart was repeatedly broken and put back together. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Injury/injury detail, Death, War, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, and Grief

Moderate: Physical abuse, Medical content, Genocide, Slavery, Body horror, Torture, Confinement, Drug use, and Murder

Minor: Miscarriage, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Drug abuse, Sexual violence, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Child abuse, Gun violence, Pregnancy, Racism, Sexual harassment, Misogyny, Addiction, and Alcohol

micaelamariem's review

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

At 600 pages, it could definitely been cut in half—for example, I really don’t think Mayu’s point of view was necessary or added much to the plot line. I did love Nikolai and Zoya, and while I didn’t live for Nina’s pov, in the end I was glad for it. I also loved seeing the crows again, in various ways, though the fact we barely saw Inej gave the distinct feeling of a show having a reunion that one actor was too busy to join. Alina showing up and literally doing nothing also gave that reunion vibe. So it was a little boring but I didn’t hate it. However, the ending gives me hope we will see the crows back in full action again and I am all here for it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/injury detail, Blood, Bullying, Classism, Murder, Sexism, Violence, Grief, Addiction, Colonisation, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Torture, and War

overbooked207's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

📖 Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo Book Review 📖

7th book of January 2023 and 7th of the year:

I’m proud of myself because I read multiple books that were very long this month, and in a short amount of time if I may add, and I hope that I continue on with this trend throughout the year!

It was so nice to be back in this world as I wait for Shadow and Bone season 2! It had strong and lovable complex characters, great writing and world-building, beautiful relationships and friendships, witty dialogue, and well-written and engaging fight scenes. Six of Crows is still my favorite series in this world, but I still enjoyed this a lot and recommend the Grishaverse as a whole! Also, the sounds I let out when the crows were mentioned were alarming😂(and that’s not a spoiler because one of the point of view narrators is a crow). TW for ableism, abuse, addiction, blood, bullying, child abuse, chronic illness, classism, confinement, death, drug use/forced drug use, dysphoria, genocide, grief, gun violence and weapons use, forced institutionalization, kidnapping, medical content/trauma, misogyny, murder, panic attacks, rape, religious bigotry, sexism, slavery, slurs, suicidal thoughts, torture, trafficking, violence, war, and xenophobia📚🫀👑🐉

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Medical trauma, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Injury/injury detail, Addiction, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Dysphoria, Grief, Gun violence, Mental illness, Murder, War, Xenophobia, Ableism, Blood, Confinement, Kidnapping, Hate crime, Medical content, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, and Torture

green_amaryllis's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Injury/injury detail

Minor: Drug abuse, Rape, and Torture

jackiepreston's review

adventurous emotional hopeful tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

Spoiler

Why can't Genya ever just be happy?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Violence, Injury/injury detail, and War

Moderate: Kidnapping, Addiction, and Misogyny

Minor: Biphobia, Drug use, Misogyny, Sexual violence, and Homophobia

stormzx's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

zoya is the queen of my heart

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Grief, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Racism, Injury/injury detail, and Torture

Minor: Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, and Drug abuse

anniereads221's review

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Body horror, War, Violence, Torture, Sexism, Murder, Injury/injury detail, and Grief

haddy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

<spoilers> I really enjoyed this book, the grishaverse books are my favourite series. I laughed, I cried, I was shocked, I was angry, I enjoyed it immensely. 
Only reason it wasn’t 5 stars was bc I really felt like David’s death was a bit sudden and needless? And the darkling stuff kind of made sense but was kind of out of character imo. But everyone is able to have character development I guess🤷‍♀️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/injury detail, Sexism, and War

ali_debookness's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Injury/injury detail, Murder, Violence, and War

Moderate: Addiction