Six of Crows

by: Leigh Bardugo


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 are the only ones who might stand between the world and destruction--if they don't kill each other first. {cover copy}
Well hello there! It's only been 14 days since my last review? It feels like four months. Wow. But yey for me not being as bad this month at posting as I thought I was!
Anyway.

This book. Was great. Despite me having a lot going on, and therefore taking forever to read this, I was engaged every time I opened the book. Leigh Bardugo does characters and relationships really well. I especially enjoyed the ones in this book. While I enjoyed the characters in the Grisha series, I find these six more compelling. The richness of their backgrounds gives them great depth, and their personalities are such a good mix. Because there's always tension. And tension is lovely. Especially in relationships. While I loved Kaz {except for this one thing he did that made my eyes go all big and I had to cover my mouth because it was gaping open} and his one-liners and smarts, it was Nina and Matthais whose interactions and relationship was my favorite. That is, until close to the end, when a certain something is said by a certain someone to Kaz, and it was perfect and they were edged out. 

Aside from characters, I really enjoyed this plot. It had that Ocean's Eleven feel, where you root for the bad guys the whole time and watch them succeed at pulling one over on people left and right. But it was definitely not as easy for these six as it was in Ocean's Eleven. And definitely not as clean, either. People die. That didn't happen in Ocean's Eleven. This book was a great new story in the world of the Grishas that Bardugo has built, and it actually made me love the world more than I did before. I'm very much going to jump on the sequel the first moment its available! In fact, I can't wait. So, I would kindly request that Ms. Bardugo WRITE FASTER! Thanks.

Joost had two problems: the moon and his mustache. {first line}
"Every act of violence was deliberate, and every favor came with enough strings attached to stage a puppet show."

"Besides, old women must know something, or they wouldn't live to gather wrinkles and yell from their front stoops."

"A secret's not like coin. It doesn't keep its value in the spending."

"Men mock the gods until they need them."

"If you fail, all the world will suffer for it." || "Oh, it's worse than that ... If I fail, I don't get paid."

"You're passable at demo. You're excellent at hostage."

"The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true."

"Facts are for the unimaginative."

"Better terrible truths than kind lies."

"She looked like someone facing the firing squad and saying damn the blindfolds."

"A gambler, a convict, a wayward son, a lost Grisha, a Suli girl who had become a killer, a boy from the barrel who had become something worse."

"There was no part of him that was not broken, that had not healed wrong, and there was no part of him that was not stronger for having been broken."

"That she was lovely and brave and better than anything he deserved."

"We are all someone's monster... "

"I will have you without armor ... or I will not have you at all."


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