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A review by heloise_lifeinbooks
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
adventurous
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? It's complicated
4.5
I loved this book! It’s somewhere around 500pgs long and I devoured it in like 2 days! I wish I had read this as a teen it might have become my whole personality haha.
I love a good heist, and that’s totally what this was! The planning, the multiple POVs, the betrayals and opposing goals, the perfect crew!
I loved the setting, kind of a Victorian-era crime-filled Amsterdam-like city?
And I loved the characters - I was so into every POV!
Inej and Nina are the best, I wish Jesper had been given more time, and Kaz is Kaz (he gets better over the course of the book).
Matthias starts out as the worst and also improves, though I do tend to wish that these types of characters (bigoted, blinded by hate, etc) get humbled a bit more before coming around to reason, and instead it kinda just… happened?
Most of the romances in this book except for Matthias and Nina, all felt kind of suddenly presented. I think the development of all of the romances were probably the worst written/planned part of the book, but since this is solidly YA that thankfully wasn’t the main aspect of the story.
This is definitely YA, and sometimes I found myself wishing it was NA, and that the characters were somewhat older (as they seemed to be written that way imo), but that didn’t retract anything from the experience.
I would also add that my one regret besides the romance development was the character development. We definitely got some, but since the heist was so fast paced, it felt like the character development was equally fast paced (except for Inej), and we were presented with conclusions without ever really seeing the work/turning points behind them. I would have loved more time to explore each character’s inner struggles before they changed.
Also, the ending! A cliffhanger! I need to read the next book ASAP!
I love a good heist, and that’s totally what this was! The planning, the multiple POVs, the betrayals and opposing goals, the perfect crew!
I loved the setting, kind of a Victorian-era crime-filled Amsterdam-like city?
And I loved the characters - I was so into every POV!
Inej and Nina are the best, I wish Jesper had been given more time, and Kaz is Kaz (he gets better over the course of the book).
Matthias starts out as the worst and also improves, though I do tend to wish that these types of characters (bigoted, blinded by hate, etc) get humbled a bit more before coming around to reason, and instead it kinda just… happened?
Most of the romances in this book except for Matthias and Nina, all felt kind of suddenly presented. I think the development of all of the romances were probably the worst written/planned part of the book, but since this is solidly YA that thankfully wasn’t the main aspect of the story.
This is definitely YA, and sometimes I found myself wishing it was NA, and that the characters were somewhat older (as they seemed to be written that way imo), but that didn’t retract anything from the experience.
I would also add that my one regret besides the romance development was the character development. We definitely got some, but since the heist was so fast paced, it felt like the character development was equally fast paced (except for Inej), and we were presented with conclusions without ever really seeing the work/turning points behind them. I would have loved more time to explore each character’s inner struggles before they changed.
Also, the ending! A cliffhanger! I need to read the next book ASAP!