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Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

197 reviews

nicwilkins22's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful 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: Violence, Trafficking, and Slavery

Moderate: Confinement, Kidnapping, Death, Drug use, Physical abuse, Torture, Blood, and Classism

Minor: Ableism and Adult/minor relationship

softgalaxy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny 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

Content Warnings: graphic violence, xenophobia, sexual assault inference, death, trauma flashbacks, themes of addiction, misogyny, ableism

Okay, dang, where do I even start with Six of Crows? I LOVE THIS BOOK WITH ALL MY HEART. I first read Six of Crows back in late 2017, and I just loved it from the beginning until the end. The plot, the characters, the world, and just the writing style? Loved it. 

I’ve never so strongly loved and admired fictional characters than I have with Kaz Brekker, Inej Ghafa, Nina Zenik, Jesper Fahey, and Wylan Van Eck. (let’s forget about Matthias Helvar, shall we?) In each of them, I found parts of myself that I had often pushed away or dismissed about myself. These characters are by no means perfect, but that is why I love them. They’re all incredibly flawed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Torture

Moderate: Misogyny, Gun violence, Classism, Ableism, Xenophobia, Addiction, Slavery, Death, Trafficking, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual assault and Rape

thescribblebug'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

5.0

Honestly my favourite book of the last five years - I’ve reread so many times now and every time I love the characters more. Smart writing, sharp-tongued characters, brilliant character development and the heist plot is so perfectly done. Can’t recommend enough.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child death, Mental illness, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Ableism, and Classism

gothmiku's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Blood, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Slavery, and Violence

Moderate: Racism, Sexual violence, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Ableism and Vomit

siltha's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.5

The plot is action packed but it only advances by a series of fortunate occurrences disguised as an intelligent plan, which just broke my suspension of disbelief constantly. 

The characters are teenagers and are way too adult in some things but way too childish in other, so to me the characters aren't built in a way that makes sense. 

The characters are diverse, but still they brush over slavery, forced prostitution and rape whereas they focus on the trauma of the main guy a lot more, and the 2 female characters are both in awe and take care of their male counterparts that treat them badly. 

Then the story of Nina and Mathjias, he's basically a nazi soldier yet the book puts Nina's wrongdoings at the same level as his, when she's from a minority that's being prosecuted, enslaved and killed all over. 

I won't be reading more of these books, very disappointing. I don't understand the hype except if it's from people that don't read much and this is one of the first fantasy books they read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia

Moderate: Ableism, Classism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, and Trafficking

linus_rieper's review

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious sad 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? Yes

5.0

Epic fantasy heist novel with the most incredible cast of charaters that hold their stance all over the alignment chart. There's fun, there's banter and there is beautiful and dramatic inner monologues and snappy one-liners. You get to dive into most of the characters' inner lives and it's incredible how well they are seperated from each other, and how each character can have a different perception of each of the others in their group. Each dynamic is unique and is reflected in their views of each other.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Trafficking and Death

Minor: Ableism, Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual harassment, and Slavery

chaoticace's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Blood, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Slavery, and Violence

Moderate: Abandonment, Murder, Torture, and Trafficking

Minor: Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Colonisation, and Grief

emilywasbored's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Religious bigotry, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Torture, Ableism, Child death, Slavery, Trafficking, and Addiction

Minor: Sexual violence and Gun violence

komarov's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Ableism, Classism, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction and Sexism

thewordsdevourer's review against another edition

adventurous funny tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

im no longer the last person on earth to not have read this! and finally having read it, i get why six of crows is so hyped and its fanbase so passionate. 

tbh it's not like there's a lot of ~deep~ substance to the book, but no one can deny that it's rollicking, entertaining, adventurous fun. the characters and their dialogue, imo, are the crux of this book; the former is distinct and i actually like everyone on the crew (the character development's particularly satisfying), and the latter made me smile on almost every pg bc of how clever and witty it is. 

i havent read a lot of heist stories, but this one's pretty enjoyable, though a tad predictable. and although the worldbuilding isnt sth out of the ordinary, it's interesting enough and serves its purpose, and the machinations of the ice court is intriguing. i also rly like the themes and many of the opposing conflicts, like grisha vs normal folks; decency in a cruel, greedy world; hatred and loyalty. cant wait to see what (and i already know there'll be some deaths) awaits the crew in the sequel.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Ableism, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, and Trafficking