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A review by abinthebooks
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
5.0
SEPTEMBER 16th 2019
⭐️4⭐️
REVIEW TO COME
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OH MY FUCKING GOD! MY MIND IS BLOWN!
Six of Crows is one of the best, (if not the best) YA fantasy I’ve ever fucking read. I can not tell you how much I enjoyed this book, nor can I tell you how much I appreciate it.
We follow our main character Kaz Brekker the criminal mastermind in the fantasy city of Ketterdam. It’s the number one city for trade, trouble, and tricks. (All T’s lmao). He had his group of people in his Crow gang (hence the title. And their is also six people in his little group), and they caused trouble around the city.
Kaz is offered like 30 million kertz (I think that was there currency. I wasn’t paying all to much attention for the first 100 pages of this book. I’ll get into that later), and Kaz being the villain he is (jk he’s my fucking husband and no one can hurt him), decides that he is going to seek out this mission for the money. He comes up with his crew of 6.
Inej (my child, and we Stan and ship her with Kaz for the rest of our mother fucking lives), Nina (my baby), Matthias (we don’t really Stan him that much), Wesley (WE FUCKING STAN HIM), and Jesper (who we also Stan). They all owe Kaz a sort of payment or debt in some way to Kaz or someone else, so Kaz is basically blackmailing most of them.
We learn some significant details about why we’re going on the adventure (which I won’t spoil for y’all), and the characters set off onto their heist to the Ice Court.
I’m just gonna say it right now, I FUCKING LOVED ‘SIX OF CROWS.’ And here is why. (I have way to many reasons but imma narrow it down to 3.)
The characters in this book were OUTSTANDING. I wish I could give Leigh Bardugo a standing FUCKING ovation. Her character descriptions, depth, and development (Look their all D’s lmao) is astonishing. I remember trying to read ‘Shadow and Bone’ (also Leigh Bardugo) And DNF’ed it for the same reason here. Except it was be opposite. I couldn’t get into her characters. In this book I think that the characters are so flawed out and written so well, and I just grew attached to them all. (Even though I still don’t love Matthias lmao)
While the world can be confusing at times, I thought the world building was still phenomenal. Since this duology is a spin-off of ‘The Grisha Trilogy’, the world wasn’t as thawed out as it was in their because you are usually expected to read that series first. But I didn’t. And again, I got confused but I think the world building was exquisite.
I LOVE THE 3RD PERSON IN THIS BOOK! It’s crazy to me. 1st person is usually my go to, and when I see or start reading a book in 3rd person I internally groan. But, IT WAS DONE OUTSTANDING. This book wouldn’t have been as good in 1st person. The way Leigh Bardugo switches from characters in 3RD PERSON IS SO INSANE! I just-I-I think I would have loved ‘Shadow in Bone’ if it was in 3rd person and I can’t believe I’m saying that. I loved the way Leigh Bardugo took 3rd person POV and twisted and turned it into her own and I absolutely loved it.
I’m gonna say something though. The first 100-150 pages are a bit hard to get into a bit confusing. But, I SWEAR TO GOD THEY GET BETTER.
Also, we have 2 badass female leads and 4 badass male leads and I LIVED for it.
And finally, I LOVED HEARING THE BAD GUYS STORIES! We always hear about the good characters in stories. We always hear about the princess that needs saving, or the badass GOOD female heroine, and we never read about THE BAD characters. And I loved doing something new with this book. It was refreshing and enjoyable reading about the villains and why the way they are. What possesses them to do these things. Why are they doing these things. HOW did they do these things. I think Leigh Bardugo also did an amazing job of telling us a short backstory within 10-15 pages. We got subtle glimpses into the characters pasts, but it was enough to make us UNDERSTAND why they do the things they do, and what their going through and I just loved learning these things. Reading about the ‘bad guys’ and villains was refreshing and new. Something I usually don’t read about.
*Favorite Characters*
Inej and Kaz or AKA the BIGGEST FUCKING SHIP OF ALL TIME
⭐️4⭐️
REVIEW TO COME
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OH MY FUCKING GOD! MY MIND IS BLOWN!
Six of Crows is one of the best, (if not the best) YA fantasy I’ve ever fucking read. I can not tell you how much I enjoyed this book, nor can I tell you how much I appreciate it.
We follow our main character Kaz Brekker the criminal mastermind in the fantasy city of Ketterdam. It’s the number one city for trade, trouble, and tricks. (All T’s lmao). He had his group of people in his Crow gang (hence the title. And their is also six people in his little group), and they caused trouble around the city.
Kaz is offered like 30 million kertz (I think that was there currency. I wasn’t paying all to much attention for the first 100 pages of this book. I’ll get into that later), and Kaz being the villain he is (jk he’s my fucking husband and no one can hurt him), decides that he is going to seek out this mission for the money. He comes up with his crew of 6.
Inej (my child, and we Stan and ship her with Kaz for the rest of our mother fucking lives), Nina (my baby), Matthias (we don’t really Stan him that much), Wesley (WE FUCKING STAN HIM), and Jesper (who we also Stan). They all owe Kaz a sort of payment or debt in some way to Kaz or someone else, so Kaz is basically blackmailing most of them.
We learn some significant details about why we’re going on the adventure (which I won’t spoil for y’all), and the characters set off onto their heist to the Ice Court.
I’m just gonna say it right now, I FUCKING LOVED ‘SIX OF CROWS.’ And here is why. (I have way to many reasons but imma narrow it down to 3.)
The characters in this book were OUTSTANDING. I wish I could give Leigh Bardugo a standing FUCKING ovation. Her character descriptions, depth, and development (Look their all D’s lmao) is astonishing. I remember trying to read ‘Shadow and Bone’ (also Leigh Bardugo) And DNF’ed it for the same reason here. Except it was be opposite. I couldn’t get into her characters. In this book I think that the characters are so flawed out and written so well, and I just grew attached to them all. (Even though I still don’t love Matthias lmao)
While the world can be confusing at times, I thought the world building was still phenomenal. Since this duology is a spin-off of ‘The Grisha Trilogy’, the world wasn’t as thawed out as it was in their because you are usually expected to read that series first. But I didn’t. And again, I got confused but I think the world building was exquisite.
I LOVE THE 3RD PERSON IN THIS BOOK! It’s crazy to me. 1st person is usually my go to, and when I see or start reading a book in 3rd person I internally groan. But, IT WAS DONE OUTSTANDING. This book wouldn’t have been as good in 1st person. The way Leigh Bardugo switches from characters in 3RD PERSON IS SO INSANE! I just-I-I think I would have loved ‘Shadow in Bone’ if it was in 3rd person and I can’t believe I’m saying that. I loved the way Leigh Bardugo took 3rd person POV and twisted and turned it into her own and I absolutely loved it.
I’m gonna say something though. The first 100-150 pages are a bit hard to get into a bit confusing. But, I SWEAR TO GOD THEY GET BETTER.
Also, we have 2 badass female leads and 4 badass male leads and I LIVED for it.
And finally, I LOVED HEARING THE BAD GUYS STORIES! We always hear about the good characters in stories. We always hear about the princess that needs saving, or the badass GOOD female heroine, and we never read about THE BAD characters. And I loved doing something new with this book. It was refreshing and enjoyable reading about the villains and why the way they are. What possesses them to do these things. Why are they doing these things. HOW did they do these things. I think Leigh Bardugo also did an amazing job of telling us a short backstory within 10-15 pages. We got subtle glimpses into the characters pasts, but it was enough to make us UNDERSTAND why they do the things they do, and what their going through and I just loved learning these things. Reading about the ‘bad guys’ and villains was refreshing and new. Something I usually don’t read about.
*Favorite Characters*
Inej and Kaz or AKA the BIGGEST FUCKING SHIP OF ALL TIME