Leigh Bardugo talks 'The Language of Thorns' and the dark power of folktales

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If you've ever read an original folktale (and not the sanitized Disney adaptations), you can likely relate to the feeling of being unsettled and uneasy. While often conveying a culturally and time-specific moral, those tales lacked the neat bows and happy endings to which we're now accustomed. 

But it's that feeling — the darker side of classic stories — that first inspired author Leigh Bardugo.

Bardugo, the YA powerhouse behind the Shadow and Bone trilogy and Six of Crows duology, has just added the next chapter to her beloved Grishaverse: a collection of folktales, set within her fictional world, called The Language of ThornsRead more...

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