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A review by vermidian
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
5.0
This book was thoroughly enjoyable. While The Lies of Locke Lamora will likely forever keep the throne in the hierarchy of my favorite heist books, this may be the future heir to that throne. Actually, this book may have been the eye opener I needed to realize that I really like heist books, or at least I've really enjoyed the few that I've read. I'm not sure if that extends to more modernized stories or not - I suppose I'll just have to find out. While I'm more of the 4.5 star mind, I rounded up for the purposes of the Goodreads rating.
The world is lush and while I wouldn't quite call it vibrant seeing as it's a pretty war-torn and dangerously dark world to live in, it features a world of many cultures and races and is rich in that way. Each nation seems to have it's own defining characteristics and attitudes toward different things, such as the Grisha. I'm told this book and it's sequel shares a world with another series, which I will be sure to look up after this one.
The characters are pretty great to be honest. I think I preferred Inej over the others, but they were all pretty great and pretty flawed. I love a character that I can picture meeting in real life and all of these characters had that sense of tangibility for me. Sure, you want to punch Kaz in the face on several dozen occasions. (If you've ever seen Sherlock, he's the Sherlock.) He's smart and he makes sure that everyone knows it. In addition to this, he's got dirt and secrets on just about everyone in all of Ketterdam. The relationships between the six are supposed to be pretty complicated, but really they seem to be pairing off all of the six as the book goes along. It's not really heavy on romance, which is nice. I like a good build-up as someone who identifies as demiromantic. I guess we'll see what happens in book two, but everyone seems to have a lead on a romance potential by the end of the book.
As someone who didn't read the other trilogy first, I can definitely tell you that this book is readable on it's own without explanation. While some of the magic seems a little vague at first, it was kind of fun piecing together what the author gives you to make sense of the different terms. I would definitely recommend this to others.
The world is lush and while I wouldn't quite call it vibrant seeing as it's a pretty war-torn and dangerously dark world to live in, it features a world of many cultures and races and is rich in that way. Each nation seems to have it's own defining characteristics and attitudes toward different things, such as the Grisha. I'm told this book and it's sequel shares a world with another series, which I will be sure to look up after this one.
The characters are pretty great to be honest. I think I preferred Inej over the others, but they were all pretty great and pretty flawed. I love a character that I can picture meeting in real life and all of these characters had that sense of tangibility for me. Sure, you want to punch Kaz in the face on several dozen occasions. (If you've ever seen Sherlock, he's the Sherlock.) He's smart and he makes sure that everyone knows it. In addition to this, he's got dirt and secrets on just about everyone in all of Ketterdam. The relationships between the six are supposed to be pretty complicated, but really they seem to be pairing off all of the six as the book goes along. It's not really heavy on romance, which is nice. I like a good build-up as someone who identifies as demiromantic. I guess we'll see what happens in book two, but everyone seems to have a lead on a romance potential by the end of the book.
As someone who didn't read the other trilogy first, I can definitely tell you that this book is readable on it's own without explanation. While some of the magic seems a little vague at first, it was kind of fun piecing together what the author gives you to make sense of the different terms. I would definitely recommend this to others.