King of Scars Duology - Leigh BardugoGenre: Fantasy Pages: Book One King of Scars 511 pages Book Two Rule of Wolves 588 pages Series: The King of Scars duology Blurb from the first book: Face your demons or feed them. The dashing young king, Nikolai Lantsov, has always had a gift for the impossible. No one knows what he endured in his country's bloody civil war and he intends to keep it that way. Now, as enemies gather at his weakened borders, Nikolai must find a way to refill Ravka's

blur and everyone's faith in humanity is tested

that he can truly understand the tragedy of sin

school headmaster and model of Utilitarian success

and I lost him anyway

Joyce writes of social decline

I'd waited a lifetime for that epic

travel bans and world sealings

The next day

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the notoriously reclusive Thomas Carlyle was "seized with a perfect convulsion of hospitality" and threw not one but two Christmas dinner parties

My mother saved my life and became my hero

George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece