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Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

11 reviews

datgirllani'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? No

4.0

A good read. Slow at the start but you can tell it is to set up the plot. Kaz is so badass. Definitely reading book 2 as the cliffhanger is unbearable. “Because our crime is existing. Our crime is what we are.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Addiction, Death, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Drug use, Cursing, Grief, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Child death, Kidnapping, Torture, Animal death, Slavery, Death of parent, Vomit, Animal cruelty, Excrement, and Genocide

gillian_aftanas's review

adventurous dark funny 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: Blood, Religious bigotry, Genocide, Gun violence, Addiction, Medical content, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Body horror, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Violence, Grief, Sexual harassment, Gore, Trafficking, Slavery, Ableism, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism

Minor: Excrement, Death of parent, Animal death, and War

adamparrishlover's review

adventurous dark emotional funny 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, and Gun violence

Moderate: Slavery, Trafficking, Gore, Child abuse, and Child death

Minor: Religious bigotry and Excrement

shelvesofivy's review against another edition

adventurous 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Gore, Murder, Torture, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Vomit, Child death, Addiction, Blood, Classism, Cultural appropriation, Death, Drug use, Racism, and Slavery

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Cultural appropriation, and Sexual assault

Minor: Excrement, Animal death, Fatphobia, and Death of parent

near drowning,

infjkiki's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Animal death, Gun violence, Slavery, Death, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Torture, Gore, Trafficking, Blood, and Genocide

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Bullying, Excrement, Grief, Misogyny, Child death, Cultural appropriation, Death of parent, Abandonment, Ableism, Alcohol, Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, Cursing, and Panic attacks/disorders

storykath's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

5.0

epic. as a lightning-pace heist YA, it's perfect. i could be lucky about some of the world building but whatever. gets dark and grim, check content warnings for sure

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Trafficking, Slavery, Confinement, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Child death, Classism, Death, Kidnapping, Murder, Violence, and Addiction

Moderate: Vomit, Xenophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Physical abuse, War, and Gore

Minor: Misogyny, Alcohol, and Excrement

illgiveyouahint's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? Yes

I started reading in the mornings and that helps me to read more so i finally finished it.
I liked the setting and the story so much more than the shadow and bone series, however reading the series back-to-back I'm starting to be tired of this world and kinda cannot wait to go back to some other worlds and stories. Luckily I only have one more book ahead of me.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cultural appropriation, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Slavery, Torture, Violence, and Xenophobia

Minor: Ableism, Alcohol, Blood, Excrement, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Slavery

dhwani's review

adventurous emotional 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

*screaming*
*screaming intensifies*
*pause*
*more screaming* 
(no but fr i cannot write a review to this masterpiece wtf am i supposed to write)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Excrement, Murder, Slavery, and Sexual assault

li_reading's review against another edition

adventurous funny 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Gun violence, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Violence, Confinement, Death, Drug use, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Trafficking, Blood, Grief, and Vomit

Minor: Religious bigotry, Excrement, Slavery, and Torture

margueritestjust's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? No

5.0

What an amazing book.  I had held off on reading this for such a long time because it was so popular not just when the series came out but back when I was in high school when it was first released.  But I decided to finally pick it up, and it was written so, so well.

I love the world and setting - some of my favorite stories have characters that are so much a part of their world that they can't be taken out of that world and put somewhere else and still be the same.  The world and the characters very much play off of each other - each character is a product of their environment.  Though Kaz is technically not a "bastard of the Barrel", he may as well be, because that is the world that shaped him, and it comes through in the way that he dresses, the way that he speaks, the way that he's created a myth around himself.  Each of the main crew is similarly part of the setting and their own character at the same time.  

One of the things that Bardugo does really well is to reveal information in portions and only when it's necessary.  We learn of these characters' pasts as their relationships, fears, and goals are talked about in the present, and it's the restraint of a writer who knows to only give the necessary information at the necessary time.  Obstensibly, this book is about a heist, but the book is really about the characters - the plot drives the character work at the end of the day.  That being said, Bardugo was still delivering flashback exposition during the actual heist, and perhaps it was just me being impatient but I felt that it was information that could have been truly covered earlier - and then left the heist completely running on its own time.  Everything was going poorly enough for our main characters that I needed to know about them in the present, not them in the past lol.  

The book does raise a lot of questions about what is going to happen in the next, and while there are some obvious ones and clear threads that will have to be picked up (

will Inej be rescued?  What will happen to Kaz/Inej's dynamic?  What will happen to Nina?  My favorite question is how on earth the crew will not be prosecuted and extradited for rescuing Kuwei from the Ice Court.  The Fjerdans literally know how every single one of them looks and two of their names thanks to Ms Heleen lmao.  Perhaps this will happen, perhaps it won't.

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I love all of the main crew dearly except for Matthias.  He's still on thin ice.  (Unintended pun.)  However, Inej my beloved <3

In all seriousness, I had a really hard time getting into the Helnik romance. 

If it had been me, I would have left Matthias in prison and never given it a second thought.  It's really hard to want to cheer on a romance when a male character who is a fantasy racist thinks about killing the woman that he's in love with all the time.  He gets better, but I'm really not an enemies-to-lovers kind of gal and while it's very clear that this is a story of Matthias getting deradicalized, we should have known about his tragic backstory concerning his family earlier, because it does help to make him more sympathetic.  By the end of the book, he had grown a bit on me, but I still had a hard time wanting the two of them to be together.

  In comparison, I think that Kanej and Wesper(?  are those the ship names?)  were both nicely well done, with Kanej taking the clear lead. 

When it said "Kaz needed to say thank you for his new hat" I legit started to tear up.  And when earlier in the book, he says "your enemies" to Inej in a conversation and she repeats "my enemies" and then he says "our enemies" like hello?????  I think it's fascinating how much there is unsaid between the two of them that is instead spoken through their actions.

  As for Wesper, it's a relationship that is still somewhat loosely defined in terms of the romance department, and honestly I wasn't sure if they were really flirting with each other or not until probably 1/2 or 3/4 of the way through the book.  

All of my reviews turn out to be unreasonably long, so I'll just say this to wrap up.  It's a book that I genuinely could not put down.  I read most of it within one night, and I found that reading along with atmospheric white noise really added to my experience as well, which is something new that I've discovered and I can't wait to use that for the next book that I read as well.  I adored this book, I think it's lovingly crafted from start to finish.  Definitely deserves the hype that it gets.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Addiction, Animal death, Blood, and Child death

Minor: Excrement

Lots of death - often by gun or knife, but it does have the death of animals and describes three bodies that have been burned to death. There is some description of an eyeball that gets a bit gory.