![]() ![]() ![]() The fantasy heist concept morphed into her 2015 novel “Six of Crows” and its 2016 follow-up, “Crooked Kingdom.” Three years later, she would embark on another duology kicking off with the 2019 novel “King of Scars.” That book’s sequel, “Rule of Wolves,” is being published on March 30 through Orion Children’s Books. With that revelation, Bardugo fell back into the Grishaverse, where she’s spent a lot of time over the past few years. “I had to pull over to the side of the road because I realized that I really wanted to write a fantasy heist,” she recalls on a recent phone call, “and I knew exactly where to set it, and I knew which characters I was going to bring together to try to pull off this impossible job.” The L.A.-based author didn’t actually want to see what was being advertised - the film “The Monuments Men” - but it got her thinking about “Oceans 11” and that generated another idea. ![]() When Leigh Bardugo finished “Ruin and Rising,” the third book in her Shadow and Bone trilogy published in 2014, she wanted a break from the Grishaverse, the Russian-inflected fantasy world that she had been building in her novels. ![]()
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