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Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

43 reviews

inkdrinker2007's review against another edition

5.0

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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Grief

ruthannejoy's review against another edition

5.0

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Fantastic. I read the thing in one sitting and couldn't put it down. By 1 am, I was about 75% of the way through, and knew there was no turning back. The last quarter of the book, if not more of it, is a complete page turner, with the action building and twisting in delightfully complex ways. The action is so well written! And the style of each chapter told from a different character's perspective is masterfully done. It wasn't until the last chapter that I even consciously realized they were told in third person, because the narration was so personal and pulled me in so intimately, I felt like I was the first person character.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Sexual harassment

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

Child death/endangerment: All the main characters are teenagers who are threatened with death or receive life threatening injuries on the page.

shannolse's review against another edition

5.0

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: Complicated

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Multiple Points of View, all with unique voices! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Ableism, Violence, Trafficking, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail

kiwisandtea's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense slow-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

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Third read and still one of my all time favorite books. The world building is incredible and smoothly integrated, as are the flashbacks/background for all the characters. I absolutely love the diversity in this book, the strongly built characters, and how fantastically well written they are. Even as a reread, the plot is thrilling and the twists and turns are still exciting. The found family aspect of a ragtag group of teens who couldn't be any more different from each other is so heartwarming. I could sing this book's praises for ages. There are many darker themes, so check your trigger warnings, but it is absolutely worth it in my opinion.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Murder

Moderate: Slavery, Trafficking, Grief, Religious bigotry

Minor: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Drug use, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Kidnapping, Classism

natyourusual_'s review against another edition

2.0

adventurous dark emotional slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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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, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Misogyny, Kidnapping, Grief

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

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

akane_reads's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Slavery, Violence, Police brutality, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, Gaslighting

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts

kalelove's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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I'M SORRY I PUT THIS BOOK DOWN A FEW YEARS AGO. I'LL NEVER DO IT AGAIN

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Torture, Violence, Murder

Moderate: Racism, Slavery, Cultural appropriation, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, Classism

Minor: Cursing, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts

josiee's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional funny medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Dementia, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Outing, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Pandemic/Epidemic

noodletheriddle's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous dark 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death

Moderate: Slavery

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Death of parent, War

bashsbooks's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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OMG Six of Crows is incredible! I don't know why it took me so long to read it, but I'm glad I finally did. The character dynamics are so messy and fun; the heist keeps you on the edge of your seat; the worldbuilding is thorough (and you can see the cultural differences through the eyes of various characters). I can't wait to read the sequel!

I love Jesper so much he is like a blorbo to me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Misogyny, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Body horror, Gore, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, War

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Death of parent, Sexual harassment

-Many references to one character's history of forced prostitution when she was a young teen