Incredible. I enjoyed this extract very much - I wasn't expecting the book to start with a different character (not Nikolai). As usual, Leigh Bardugo writes well-rounded characters with engaging prose. I can't wait to read the whole book.

While this was just the first chapter, I have since read the entire book. I loved it! I have thoroughly enjoyed the Grishaverse these last few months. Nikolai is probably my favorite character in this book world, so my biggest complaint was not enough Nikolai. Otherwise, highly enjoyable

Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo is amazing so far of course. Her writing style is always unique and interesting. I did not love King of Scars because of Nina's character but adding more characters to this story creates a more well rounded story. It's not just sadness. I love that the Darkling is back, he is my favorite character and look forward to finishing this book.

This sample chapter was just the thing I needed to get my head back into the Grishaverse and to start recalling some important points from the last book. I though it was very interesting to begin with Queen Makhi's perspective, as it was a fresh way to begin the narrative, and get the reader "caught up" a bit.

I'll be buying the full book, and look forward to reading it A.S.A.P.!

This preview was..ahh..I can't wait!

I would like to thank the publisher and netgalley for providing me a free copy in exchange for an honest review.

Like every Leigh Bardugo book, I loved the characters. Every single one of them is written out very well, and they all have both likeable and hateful characteristics - which makes them human. I must say that this book was a bit hard to read for me sometimes, because there is so much talk about war and finding allies. This made it a bit hard to read at times, because not a lot was happening. This was especially the case for the Nikolai and Zoya chapters, but not for the Nina chapters; they were great in my opinion.

Full review is posted on Goodreads.

A fabulous sneak peak. The story and world are sure to please any fan of Bardugo's Grishaverse.

The first few chapters set up an intriguing plotline and hit the ground running. We follow Nikolai on following through his arranged marriage, Zoya on confronting old feelings for the darkling, and the conflict in Shu and how it effects all the characters.

Here is my full review of the full book of Rule of Wolves!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4pXC5B2WOU&t=439s

This book was by far my favorite of the grishaverse series. I love how it brought all of the characters together one last time. Love it sooo much

So I think I’m in a pretty similar space and feeling about this book as I was with book one. It didn’t quite deliver the kicking of ass I expected but I was a lot less bored. And yet..

I don’t know, I feel like this book did a lot of good, or great things, but I think I enjoyed it because of the whole. This really is a ‘verse now, and we had even more reunions and cameos in this follow up installment than we did in book one, and I did enjoy myself. But this particular book and series? I don’t know.

But what this spinoff set up for us to come? Some of the loose ends, or unknowns, it tied up and revealed to us? I mean, I’m pretty satisfied.

While I was less bored, which was my main complaint about KING OF SCARS, this did take me a huge chunk of the day to get through (and yes it a chonky book in general) because it just didn’t compell me, capture my attention, keep me from reaching for twitter. But despite that it did keep me reading all day which is in short supply lately (always).

So, make of all this what you will! I will continue to reach for books, or whatever kind of content (one week as of the writing of this before the show!) Bardugo offers us, but is this series a favourite? No. Maybe on reread? Who can say. But I had a good time anyway.

3.5 stars

So, the book is already put, and and I’m super excited and hella nervous for both of my boys. For my king and moi sovereniy. I’m so afraid of Leigh will do with my pour heart and soul. But as usual, our Grisha Queen serving THE best characters and plot twist.
Oh, so. See you on the other side

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Thank you to NetGalley, Macmillan Publishers and Leigh Bardugo for this sneak peek ARC in exchange for my honest review.
I LOVED this three chapter preview of Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo.
The blight is spreading, a marriage is on the horizon and King Nikolai is riding out among his people to address their fears and prejudice. Reading the first chapters of this book was like sitting down with old friends. As always the writing is beautiful and the characters are magical.

A wonderful teaser of this breathtaking world! I can't wait to dive back into it! This chapter sampler sets up the plot for the rest of the novel, and leaves you on the edge of your seat—a must read before completing the series!

Rule of Wolves is the sequel to the amazing King of Scars, two books part of The Grishaverse, I had very high expectations for this book, and the first few chapters did not fail to hook me in and keep me wanting to read. I can't wait to get my hands on the book to read.

I’m pretty sure this was the best grisha book I read. I have read all the books in the grisha world besides for the lives of saints and while I was a big fan of the world and all of its series, I didn’t realize how in love I was with the world and all of the characters until Rule of Wolves.

I read King of Scars right before picking this one up and while I gave it 4 stars and really enjoyed it, I found it to have a slow start and I was waiting for some stuff to happen that just didn’t happen by the end of that book.

BUT, everything I was hoping for and more than I could have asked for was delivered in this book. This whole book was super fast paced in a really good way, we got to see so many of our favorite characters, and I was so happy with everyone’s ending! Plus it gave us hope for a new series in the future!

There’s not much more I can say without adding in spoilers for other grisha books as well as rule of wolves prequel, king of scars. So all I’ll say is that this book blew me away, I didn’t want to put it down and if you are a fan of the grishaverse already, there should be nothing stopping you from reading this book! It was by far my favorite from every other Leigh bardugo book I’ve read so far.

I also mentioned more of my thoughts on this duoligy in a video I posted to my YouTube channel. https://youtu.be/ZQwAAwCkdZk

This book has been waited for , for a long time. I was so excited to review the beginning and I cannot say I was not disappointed I cannot wait for the book to come out and finish the rest of the Grishaverse world. This world has brought a new meaning to stories for me.

So I read this book the day it came out I got an extended excerpt and was more than ready
I really enjoyed Zoya and Nikolai interactions they are absolutely adorable
change of POV threw me off a little but after I got used to everything else was pretty good there were some characters like Retvenko that I wanted to see

Bardugo writes so well but I wasn’t as sucked into this sample as much as I wanted to be. But I am very interested to see what happens next!

Leigh Bardugo is definitely one of my favorite authors and I’m so excited to finish the Grishaverse books.

Leigh Bardugo knows how to start a book right (well, maybe except the very first chapter but who cares) I read this sample in one setting.