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Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

40 reviews

futureofmydays's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny hopeful reflective relaxing 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Drug use, Drug abuse, Violence, Slavery, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Gun violence, Forced institutionalization, and Trafficking

citymouse's review

• 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Addiction, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, and Violence

Minor: Religious bigotry and Slavery

Gambling

danicaleblanc's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Forced institutionalization

Minor: Rape, Child death, and Torture

valyn_grebe's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious reflective 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Blood, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Kidnapping, and Medical content

Minor: Addiction, Vomit, Animal death, Child death, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Grief, Trafficking, and Physical abuse

lisaearley's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Death of parent, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Murder, Racism, Slavery, Trafficking, and Violence

confusedmuse's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Murder, Religious bigotry, Slavery, and Trafficking

Moderate: Blood, Emotional abuse, Grief, Kidnapping, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Ableism, Addiction, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Physical abuse, and Sexual content

roseamillerg's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Finished 5 minutes after midnight. Damn. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Trafficking, Slavery, Murder, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Animal death, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, and Medical trauma

brianareads's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Torture, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Drug use, Drug abuse, and Addiction

Moderate: Religious bigotry and Slavery

Minor: Ableism

betweentheshelves's review

adventurous dark 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

4.0

Here we are again because of the Shadow and Bone show, and no one is surprised. I'm actually liking the way that they are adapting these books because it works well for integrating all of the characters. Plus, it gives us more time with the Six of Crows characters, which I will never complain about.

One thing that I always really like about this duology in particular is that there are a lot of narrators, but they all have distinct voices and they don't blend together like other books with multiple narrators. Plus, Bardugo is just great at writing characters in general!
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Watching Shadow and Bone made me want to re-listen to this, so here we are! This duology is still my favorite at the moment, I just like the characters in this better than the original trilogy. I just got King of Scars, so I can't wait to continue!
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Re-listened to this because I never read the second book and I didn't remember a lot of the details from this one. Just as good. He second time, and I loved all the narrators! They brought so much to all the characters. Now, onto Crooked Kingdom!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Death, Racism, Religious bigotry, Addiction, Confinement, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Physical abuse, Violence, Cursing, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Murder, Drug abuse, and Gun violence

Moderate: Grief, Slavery, Sexual violence, Rape, and Sexual assault

kaylamoran's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny lighthearted 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? Yes

4.0

This book stands up to a reread!  But like last time, I found the first half to be rather slow.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Xenophobia, Violence, Trafficking, Slavery, Sexual violence, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Murder, Misogyny, Medical content, Medical trauma, Gun violence, Gore, Forced institutionalization, Drug use, Death, and Death of parent

Minor: Ableism