"There was just too much at stake for the other characters and nations in this book. "When I was outlining the novel, I considered just focusing on events within Ravka, but it really didn't feel right," Bardugo tells me in an email interview. Beloved Grishaverse characters like General Zoya and Nina the magic user-turned-spy return with extensive POV chapters of their own, and there are even some surprising new perspectives. And on top of all that, he has to deal with the everyday struggles of ruling: Keeping the people on his side, the restive nobles happy, the treasury full and Ravka's vulturous neighbors from invading. In the previous book, King of Scars, Nikolai helped defeat a terrible darkness threatening Ravka, but he hasn't escaped unscathed a little piece of that darkness now lives inside him, a demonic presence he can't really control. But readers of her Grishaverse books will know this isn't just any monster - it's the king himself, Nikolai of Ravka. Leigh Bardugo's new Rule of Wolves opens with a little vignette of terror: A winged monster attacking a rural farm.
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