I apologize for the long absence! For some reason, this review was really hard to write and this was all that I could get out. Even still, I hope you enjoy!
Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price—and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can’t pull it off alone. . . .
A convict with a thirst for revenge
A sharpshooter who can’t walk away from a wager
A runaway with a privileged past
A spy known as the Wraith
A Heartrender using her magic to survive the slums
A thief with a gift for unlikely escapes
Kaz’s crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction—if they don’t kill each other first.
Having heard so much about Leigh Bardugos’ books and how fantastic they are (so fantastic that the universe that the books are based in—the Grishaverse—have a Netflix deal), I wanted to read at least one of Bardugo’s novels. My wishlist had Shadow & Bone on it, but I found that I wasn’t interested in that—I wanted to read Six of Crows and learn what everyone loved so much about it.
And, to no one’s surprise, I loved it. Loved it enough to get the sequel, actually.
First off, I’m not much of a consumer of heist movies, books, or heists as a plotline in general. I’ve avoided those, but I still saw Ocean’s Eight when it was in theaters with a friend, and I enjoyed the Now You See Me movies, which are essentially heists but with magic tricks (a gross oversimplification of the plot).
When I started off reading Six of Crows, I wasn’t sure I was going to get into. With different points of view, a gritty landscape, and a misfit group of people, I thought that I wasn’t going to like it. It worked, though. Bardugo created a world where the grittiness of the landscape shaped the characters and built a world from that.
Arguably, although Kaz and Inej were OTP, a standout character for me was Nina.
A former soldier, Nina was captured by people that hunted the Grisha—what people call those with abilities far from the norm. Throughout the novel, I saw how Nina’s guilt with events that happened before the book led her to make the decision to stay in a place that she hated and make choices that she otherwise wouldn’t make.
She was also a sucker for cookies.
Though just a brief review, if you like novels with twists and turns that make you think, I definitely feel that Six of Crows is a good novel to read. And although it’s part of the Grishaverse, you don’t have to read Shadow & Bone in order to understand things, as, from what I understand, Shadow & Bone take place in a different country.
This book—and the sequel—are available at wherever books are generally sold.
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