View Spoiler » though is it super dark of me to wish she would have talked to Matthias in her head longer? I missed that big brute’s thoughts. I love Nina so much and I sobbed during *that* particular scene. I actually really enjoyed those chapters for the first half of the book…maybe even a little more than Nikolai’s which seems like a sin which I type it lol.

The main reason this is different than expected is because instead of this book being entirely about Nikolai, we have a whole side plot featuring Nina on a mission in Fjerda. I’m not saying that’s a bad thing though! No, not at all. But loss was something different, because she saw no end to it, only the far horizon, stretching on and on. If I’m being completely honest, I’d say that I am even a tad .disappointed(?) and that this book isn’t exactly what I thought it would be. I actually finished last night and honestly I’m a little torn on what to think. This book was in my top five for new releases that I was DYING to get my hands on. I literally have no idea how I’m going to review this. “I don’t like that word,” Nina said, advancing. But some secrets aren’t meant to stay buried-and some wounds aren’t meant to heal. He will risk everything to save his country and himself. With the help of a young monk and a legendary Grisha Squaller, Nikolai will journey to the places in Ravka where the deepest magic survives to vanquish the terrible legacy inside him. Yet with every day a dark magic within him grows stronger, threatening to destroy all he has built. Now, as enemies gather at his weakened borders, the young king must find a way to refill Ravka’s coffers, forge new alliances, and stop a rising threat to the once-great Grisha Army. No one knows what he endured in his country’s bloody civil war-and he intends to keep it that way.

Nikolai Lantsov has always had a gift for the impossible.

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