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sissiemilia's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Child death, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, and Sexual harassment
Minor: Ableism
1emijoy's review against another edition
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Body horror and Gore
Moderate: Ableism
Minor: Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Misogyny, Trafficking, Grief, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment
viacrow's review against another edition
- 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? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, and Classism
mathii's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, and Sexual harassment
Moderate: Sexual violence
sydneyluxford's review against another edition
- 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
4.5
THE CHARACTERS. I JUST LOVED THEM SO MUCH. They’re so well developed and have the best personalities. I genuinely wish they were real.
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Drug use, and Panic attacks/disorders
Minor: Child abuse, Misogyny, Sexism, and Sexual harassment
ynkm's review against another edition
- 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
3.75
Graphic: Child death, Death, Gun violence, and Violence
Moderate: Racism, Slavery, Blood, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Suicide attempt
beautifulminutiae's review against another edition
- 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
4.0
Graphic: Gun violence, Torture, and Violence
Moderate: Sexual assault, Trafficking, and Sexual harassment
emeraldrina's review against another edition
- 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
3.5
First, the ages of the main characters are nonsensical given their absurdly high skill levels. Until their ages were mentioned (about 60% of the way into the book) I was picturing them all in their late 20s. At that age, they were believable. At 16-18? I was baffled and thrown right out of the story. They somehow all became the best of their specialties and internationally infamous in like 2-4 years?? That’s ridiculous. For the most part they don’t act like teenagers and aren’t treated like teenagers. As far as I can tell the only reason for making them so young was to meet YA expectations. Only in the very last chapter do we see a character viewing them and treating them as they were probably meant to be seen - scrappy and over-ambitious kids who keep escaping disaster by the skin of their teeth due to hidden reservoirs of talent not yet developed. If they had acted and been treated that way the entire book, it would’ve been a lot more believable. And interesting. Unfortunately, they were all made a bit OP, which resulted in their near escapes being a lot less exciting and nail-boring than they could have been.
Second, I found the MANY and constantly changing POVs to be disorientating. Right when I finally got into a character’s head, the chapter and POV would change. It made me not want to keep reading even when I was invested in the story. There were even several whole chapters from the PoV of side characters, which was both confusing and unnecessary. Though I did enjoy Pekka’s chapter. But the ones at the beginning were boring and spent too much time getting me interested in a romance that got annihilated a few pages later. Frankly if the entire book alternated between Kaz and Nina it would’ve been a lot better. They were the only two whose thoughts I cared about.
Those issues aside, the world is wonderful, the plot is fun, and the writing style is very smooth and easy to read. The first third of the book is 2 stars, the latter two-thirds is 4, so I’ll average it out to 3.5 stars overall. Despite my qualms, I will definitely read the next book as well!
Moderate: Child death, Death, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Sexual assault, Trafficking, and Sexual harassment
babsi_222's review against another edition
- 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? Yes
4.75
I am in love with every main character, especially Inej and well every crow and I love the little romance going on. If you know you know, I never like Matthias, though, I never did. Nina can do so much better!!
I love the ice court heist!! It was so interesting and funny, but I have no idea how to imagine that and that’s why started watching the show Shadow and bone. But I’m honestly so disappointed because first of all I didn’t like the shadow and bone triology, and the show is mainly about that, and I only love the the crows. Also, the show was not like any of the books and that make me really mad. I just wanna watch the heist not some other random mission. Anyways I need to read a different genre now, but I’ll come back for Crooked kingdom!
Moderate: Addiction, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
onefineelephant's review against another edition
- 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
I only have two critiques: I wish all the characters were just a few years older. To me, especially the romances would be more compelling but the characters would also be more developed. Also, I think that the beginning of the book was a bit muddled and seemed to have too much all at once for introducing a new setting/social scene. Even though I read Shadow and Bone, I was still confused and disoriented about introducing how everything works in Ketterdam, especially since the characters are already established there instead of learning along with the reader.
Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment