Thank you to NetGalley and Titan Books for the chance to read this!

I know without a doubt, this is going to be one of my favorite reads of the year (and this year is shaping up to be a very well-read year).

Told through two points of view, The Gryphon King manages to show the vast differences in circumstances when one protagonist decides to invade another protagonist's country. Tying them slowly together is Qaira, a healer who takes care to hide her sharp edges and shows her soft parts first and foremost, an extremely effective disarming technique.

Nohra is a warrior princess, a Harpy Knight meant to defend her father and brothers. Her love is to her pegasus, then her scythe-sword, which she earned at too young an age. She's not isolated from other women either, closest to her sister Shaza, and protective of her younger sisters. Still, when her country is invaded and her father killed, she leaps at the chance to spend more time with Qaira, the chief wife of her conqueror.

Bataar is a conqueror, a man who as a child saw the younger brother of a friend killed before him by a gryphon, his spirit destroyed. He must make up the fact that he was born alive, and follow what he sees as the only way he can do so: by becoming so great a ruler that his realm will stretch from one side to the other. He's also deeply in love with his wife Qaira, his helpmate and the person he relies on most when dealing with politics of his newer, expanded kingdom.

But they're not alone. Nohra's spoiled brother Nasser, vast civil unrest, Nohra's despised aunt who may be the helpmate Nohra and her sisters need to overthrow Bataar, and the growing abilities of Nohra's best friend who very much *does not want to talk about it*.

There's Qaira to tie Bataar and Nohra together, but a Harpy Knight must defend the kingdom from all-- inside and out. And Nohra's Bleeding Edge is needed...