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Das Lied der Krähen by Leigh Bardugo

97 reviews

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

Minor: Torture and Confinement

a_islandcriptid's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Grief, Violence, Trafficking, Racism, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Classism, Drug use, and Confinement

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Slavery, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Blood, Classism, Gaslighting, and Self harm

Minor: Alcohol, Blood, Cultural appropriation, Child death, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Suicidal thoughts

kmarr's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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? No

4.75

I loved this book! it took a while to fall into the world, but once i was there i was hooked!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Gun violence, Addiction, Alcohol, and Blood

torturedreadersdept's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny 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

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, Confinement, Genocide, Grief, Gore, Child death, Cursing, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Trafficking, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Slavery, Toxic friendship, Violence, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Medical content, Body horror, Bullying, Death, Animal death, Child abuse, Drug use, Dysphoria, Ableism, Murder, and Torture

cnjg88's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Body horror, Trafficking, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, and Murder

Moderate: Blood, Ableism, Child death, Chronic illness, Classism, Cursing, Alcohol, Medical trauma, Cultural appropriation, Fire/Fire injury, Police brutality, Rape, Death, Addiction, Racial slurs, Child abuse, Gun violence, Murder, Pedophilia, Trafficking, Colonisation, Kidnapping, Drug abuse, War, Xenophobia, Sexism, and Vomit

bubbly_lara's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This was so fun to read! Being back in the Grishaverse was a blast, with a new set of characters that are each so intriguing but a as crew absolutely unstoppable. I loved the little hints at characters we've met in the "Shadow & Bone" Trilogy. The story kept me on the edge of my seat, questioning at every turn whether they'll make it or not. I cannot wait to continue with "Crooked Kingdom" to see hiw the Crows' story continues.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Blood, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Drug use, Gore, Vomit, Grief, Body horror, Classism, Cursing, Death, Violence, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Trafficking and Slavery

bessadams's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Gun violence, Animal cruelty, Blood, Drug use, Death of parent, Death, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Grief, Confinement, Child death, Animal death, Alcohol, Trafficking, Torture, and Addiction

natyourusual_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional slow-paced

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

2.0

Once you reach the actual heist happening and the first major problem in the Ice Palace, it becomes a fun read. Unfortunately, that takes over 280 pages which is roughly 2/3 of the whole book. I should not have to slog through that much for it to get good. Plus, certain characters got hyper-speed development at the end despite having enough page time to get better slowly. Other characters got so little page time of substance that I barely knew who they were until the end. It just felt a little sloppy imo. All of the characters should have been aged up as well. I hated being reminded that they’re literal children because that did not make any sense for their character arcs/backgrounds and took me out of the story. Explanation of my biggest gripe in the spoiler section (and it has some pretty big spoilers):

Okay so I have one major gripe with this book and it’s the Nina/Matthias romance. He is a former witch hunter and she’s Grisha. The horrendous things we see from him and his ilk throughout the story are absolutely disgusting. He’s essentially former gestapo yet we’re supposed to be rooting for him to get with someone he was going to torture and murder on several occasions. Even after they’re into each other and they see the burnt corpses of her people, he has the audacity to say to her “have you ever considered that you were never meant to exist?” Like, I get that he “grows” and realizes that maybe everything he was taught was propaganda and wrong, but he also pulls the “killing Hitler means you’re as bad as him” argument when he stops Nina from killing his genocidal mentor. I just think a lot of that arc was not good and I hated it. Them being friends and him growing and then helping her stop more of her people being murdered by helping her end (read: kill) the main cause of that violence would have been a better arc. No romance, though, ever. I cannot stand this type of romance. </spoiler

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Grief, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Cursing, and Gun violence

Moderate: Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Abandonment, Slavery, and Ableism

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, and Pandemic/Epidemic

ghoststations's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

4.75

A wild ride from start to finish. Leant a little heavily on the changing points of view to give the reader the element of surprise/suspence towards the end, but was still thoroughly enjoyable though all of those moments. Characters that I loved/loved to hate, worldbuilding that blended nicely into the story. Relationships (friendships, romance, rivalries, etc) that all felt real and were compelling. Can't wait to read the sequel! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, and Gun violence

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Alcohol, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, War, Gore, Slavery, Trafficking, Violence, Blood, Child death, Misogyny, Racism, and Sexism

Minor: Gore, Sexual assault, Alcohol, and Blood

Casual use of the word "cripple", with the context that the books is written by a disabled author.

icedlemonade's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

This book is amazing!! It’s a little hard to understand what’s going on at some points but the plot twists and character development are great!!

I FEEL SO BAD FOR WYLAN HIS DAD IS THE ABSOLUTE WORST I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Slavery

Moderate: Death, Ableism, Blood, and Gun violence

Minor: Alcohol