King of Scars ( King of Scars Duology #1 ) by Leigh Bardugo

A 2020 LOCUS AWARD FINALIST!   The Grishaverse will be coming to Netflix soon with Shadow and Bone, an original series!Enter the Grishaverse with the instant #1 New York Times-bestseller King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo, the first book in the King of Scars Duology.   [Bardugo] touches on religion, class, family, love -- all organically, all effortlessly, all cloaked in the weight of a post-war reckoning with the cost (literal and figurative) of surviving the events that shape both people and nations. -- NPR   The story exists at an intersection of past and future selves, and in the dawning understanding that what you most fear may be what you most need. -- Washington Post   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 coffers, forg