There is always fear associated with trying something new and temptation to stay in the place where you’ve been warmly received, but this story has been haunting me for so long. TIME: Why did you choose to write this book for adults?

The day before the release of Ninth House, Bardugo spoke to TIME about her move from YA to adult fiction, writing about her alma matter and the things she fears most. Netflix is adapting her novels Shadow and Bones and Six of Crows for television. Michael Schaub is a Texas-based journalist and regular contributor to NPR.Ninth House marks Bardugo’s first foray into adult fiction, but she has proven herself in the fantasy genre, having sold more than three million copies of her YA books in English. Rule of Wolves is slated for publication on March 30, 2021. Leigh Bardugo (away for a while) August 22, 2020 There are monsters of every variety in this book. But a dark threat looms that cannot be defeated by a young king's gift for the impossible.”īardugo offered a few more details about the novel on Twitter, writing, “There is kissing in this book.

The book’s publisher, the confusingly named Macmillan imprint Imprint, wrote, “As Fjerda’s massive army prepares to invade, Nikolai Lantsov will summon every bit of his ingenuity and charm-and even the monster within-to win this fight. King of Scars followed King Nikolai Lantsov as he fought to keep his homeland of Ravka united a reviewer for Kirkus said the novel “will leave readers begging for the sequel.”īardugo told Entertainment Weekly, “I think of this as the allies and enemies book, because those relationships are constantly shifting as Nikolai tries to keep his country from all-out war.”

The novel, Rule of Wolves, will be the final book in Bardugo’s Grishaverse series of books, which debuted in 2012 with Shadow and Bone. Fantasy author Leigh Bardugo’s next book will be a sequel to her 2019 novel King of Scars, Entertainment Weekly reports.

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