Reviews tagging 'Classism'

Das Lied der Krähen by Leigh Bardugo

78 reviews

entityj's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Alcohol, Classism, Chronic illness, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Murder, and Torture

Minor: Gore and Grief

seren's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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, Blood, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, Gun violence, Sexual harassment, Classism, and War

Moderate: Alcohol, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Slavery, Racism, Drug abuse, Child death, Gun violence, Ableism, Torture, Physical abuse, Misogyny, Drug use, Death of parent, and Cursing

Minor: Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, and Sexual violence

imaginary_space's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

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

3.0

I was told this was not really YA, but I guess it still was too much YA for me. That's not the book's fault, though. So if you generally like YA, I suspect you will like this book a lot more than I did.

What I liked:

• The world building - European inspired, plus a fantasy story set (mainly) in a big city, that's a nice diversion from the majority of books in the genre. If you know any more books, don't hesitate to point me in their direction!
• Also, I liked the Grisha magic.
• I like stories about ragtag bands/found families doing things (okay, crime) together.
• It was so well written that I found the plot interesting and wanted to know not so much what would happen next, but how it would happen.
• I started to appreciate Inej and Kaz once I stopped thinking about their age and just embraced how utterly, unapologetically edgy they are. Teenage me would have probably loved them.
• Jesper is quite the cinnamon roll, and I enjoyed him as a character. He was the most believable and most interesting (and layered) of the bunch.
• There was some entertaining dialogue.

What was meh:

• Even though interestingly written, the plot didn't hold any major surprises.
• Nina and Matthias were annoying, even more so because there wasn't ever any real doubt about the outcome. Also, very tropey romance story.
• Yes, growing up in a slum ages people beyond their years. Sure, I get that. But at times it was just too unbelievable, especially with the way they talked sometimes.
• Even more unbelievable that Kaz managed to have this badass mysterious reputation for being a criminal genius when apparently every other major player in that city was an adult. I would have gotten it if the gang members in the slums were all roughly about the same age. But like this it makes very little sense.
• Towards the end, I was pretty annoyed by the twentieth "... BUT they had seen it coming!" surprise. Especially since there was very few foreshadowing.
• There was some pretentious edgy dialogue. It's a fine line.

Overall, I wasn't too emotionally engaged, but I did enjoy it enough to probably read the second book in the series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Animal death, Toxic friendship, and Violence

Minor: Classism, Grief, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Slavery, and Torture

emmabogush's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Classism, Alcohol, and Cursing

Minor: Trafficking, Kidnapping, and Sexual assault

Brothels and pleasure houses are mentioned often - one of the main characters was kidnapped and trafficked into one of the houses in her past and it comes up in her storyline - I don’t remember any graphic or detailed descriptions of her past but it does come up multiple times in the book.

ronjaorsomething's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

The characters were very diverse and out of all the main characters there was really only one that I didn't like (Matthias, he was kinda annoying) but I still found it interesting to see his point of view. I loved the way the backstories were explored for each character although sometimes it is "interrupting" the plot (or the present) in order to tell a backstory in form of a flashback or memory (I personally liked this but I can understand if it might bother someone else).
I also liked how unpredictable the plot/outcome was because a lot of the time you don't even know what the characters intend to do (so you don't even know what the "ideal" plan is and therefore you can't really predict what might go wrong).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Addiction, Classism, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Slavery, and Trafficking

Minor: Animal death, Gun violence, Kidnapping, and Violence

ka_ke's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

2.0

I don’t understand the love for this series, or anything by Leigh Bardugo for that matter. Six of Crows definitely had a lot of potential, but I found it to be lack luster. I didn’t need, nor did I want  300 pages of character introduction and backstory. Look, If you’re boring, just say so. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Death, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Murder, Racism, Blood, and Body horror

Moderate: Trafficking, War, Mental illness, and Genocide

ajboyd_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious 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

Moderate: Addiction, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Classism, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Hate crime, Religious bigotry, Slavery, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, and Racism

embla_v's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional

4.75

Jag älskar den här boken och den är fantastisk. Men den når inte riktigt hela vägen till 5/5 även om den är otroligt nära. 

Boken handlar om Kaz och hans gäng som ska göra det omöjliga och bryta sig in i Isfästningen. Ska de lyckas eller inte? 

Rekommenderar denna bok till alla fantasy älskare som vill följa med på kråkornas resa. Rekommenderar nog att läsa Grisha-trilogin först, jag gjorde inte det men jag tror att man skulle första mer om man gjorde det. Men en oerhört bra bok som definitivt är värt det. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Grief, Gun violence, Murder, Slavery, Addiction, Blood, Ableism, Drug use, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, and Violence

thesecretsapphic's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death of parent, Child death, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Alcohol, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Slavery, Trafficking, Blood, Classism, Confinement, and Death

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