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Banda celor șase ciori by Leigh Bardugo

929 reviews

thestarsaresad's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Wow. It took me a while to get into this book due to college taking up a lot of my time and being in a reading slump, but once I got sucked in, I couldn't put the book down. I loved being able to see each character's point of view and learning about their backstories. Normally, I don't really enjoy separate POV's, finding myself naturally gravitating to and waiting for a specific characters chapter. But this book? I enjoyed each character's point of view equally, and I sped through these chapters like crazy.  The overall story and backstories of each character are all so fleshed-out; I loved being able to piece together bits of the story over time. I especially enjoyed the plot twists -- nothing is ever as it seems. And I absolutely adored seeing the growth that the characters went through. I truly truly hope that Crooked Kingdom lives up to my expectations because my expectations are to the moon from Six of Crows.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders

adalina_xox's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

emotape's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Slavery, and Trafficking

Minor: Ableism and Sexual violence

alsira98's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Blood

Moderate: Xenophobia and Trafficking

Minor: Death of parent

megh_'s review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Slavery, and Trafficking

Minor: Sexism

emilie_lilly_31's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Favorite book ever (with crooked kingdom )

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, and Trafficking

Moderate: Sexual violence and Injury/Injury detail

theresamothinmyroom's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Body shaming, Cursing, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

im_hungry_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Easily five (six) stars. Though, I considered being petty and put a 4 just because it ended on a cliffhanger but thankfully, I had picked up the Crooked Kingdom as well. Leigh make them canon, you amazing author 🫵

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Blood, and Death of parent

Moderate: Addiction, Torture, and Trafficking

Minor: Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Slavery, and Sexual harassment

iseefirede's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

Fantastic read. Little slow at the beginning but I loved seeing the way their relationships grew.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug use, Slavery, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Confinement and Torture

voypel's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

Summary:

All in all, „Six of Crows“ tells an adventurous, compelling story about an impossible, dangerous heist. While the book is quite good in some aspects such as storytelling, diversity of characters and a compelling plot, there are some issues.

Worldbuilding:
As I don’t have any experience with the Grisha universe outside of „Six of Crows“, I can’t really say much about the worldbuilding in general. I think it’s sufficient and fitting for this story and much mystery remains to be explored in the second part. However, the introduction into the topics and concepts in the beginning is a bit lacking for new readers.

Characters:
This might be the biggest issue I have with the book. While I especially like Kaz, Inej and Jesper as characters, their backstories, motivations and their appearances, some characters strongly irk me.

Honestly, Matthias and Nina’s romance and character arc is unsatisfying and patchy at best and very problematic at worst. Honestly, it’s not even adressed, that he was literally part of a genocidal zealot group that tried to exterminate Nina’s entire people.

Plot:
I like the plot, it’s easy to follow most times and wraps up nicely in the end and leaves room for the sequel.

I have a bit of personal issues with the end as I find it unsatisfying. Abducting Inej and making Nina into a parem addict and then leaving this for the sequel is a bit meh for me, but the rest about it is great sooo…

Sometimes the pacing is a bit funky, especially in the middle part where many suspenseful arcs are interrupted by an annoying flashback.

Especially Nina or Matthias lol.

Tldr:
It’s a good story, not showstoppingly great. Points get docked for characters and pacing.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence and Violence