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Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)

Leigh Bardugo

Start date: January 6, 2022

Finish date: January 31, 2022

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Aug 22, 2022 Princess Night rated it really liked it

Loved it 😭

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Sep 23, 2021 marina rated it it was amazing

Finally. Finished. This. Book!!!! I don’t mean “finally” as in “wow it was so hard to get through this book,” I mean finally as in “I didn’t have any free time to read.” I don’t think I can say a single negative thing about this book. It’s a masterpiece. The characters, the plot, the deep details, everything about it was just perfect. This is one of those books that will always be my first choice for anyone who asks me for a book recommendation. 100000/10. Thank you Leigh Bardugo!!!!

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Nov 11, 2021 vivienne rated it it was amazing

Shelves: main-books, grishaverse, re-read, she-is-the-moment, getting-out-of-my-reading-slump, 5-star-predictions

god this book made my adrenaline skyrocket (jesper tease) i was stressed in the best way possible. i absolutely LOVED this book. the povs i loved them all, the quotes OH MY GOD THE QUOTES CRIMINAL. and the plot was so good i fell in love with it and the characters. KANEJ GET THE STRETCHER I REPEAT GET THE STRETCHER. all in all i LOVED this book and i will be reading it again and you can believe that

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May 21, 2021 Shreyan Das rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Since GoodReads doesn't have half-star ratings (cos, otherwise, I would rate it 4.5), I decided to look past this book's flaws and gave it a full 5 star rating (mighty generous of me, I know).
Excellent story-telling, beautiful world, nail-biting suspense and topple-off-your-chair plot twists - this book has it all!
I will be posting a longer review shortly, till then, hold you breaths (and if you can't, Nina will help you with it *wink-wink*).

COMPLETE REVIEW

𝑺𝒊𝒙 𝒅𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒔, 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆 Since GoodReads doesn't have half-star ratings (cos, otherwise, I would rate it 4.5), I decided to look past this book's flaws and gave it a full 5 star rating (mighty generous of me, I know).
Excellent story-telling, beautiful world, nail-biting suspense and topple-off-your-chair plot twists - this book has it all!
I will be posting a longer review shortly, till then, hold you breaths (and if you can't, Nina will help you with it *wink-wink*).

COMPLETE REVIEW

𝑺𝒊𝒙 𝒅𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒔, 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒔𝒕 - can Kaz, the criminal prodigy, with his band of thieves, convicts, and miscreants, break into the impenetrable Ice Court? Or, will they find themselves locked up in the tightest prison in GrishaVerse?

To be brief, Six of Crows is Money Heist meets Game of Thrones — a book with the best of both worlds. Magic and menace, powers and politics, danger and deceit — Leigh has mixed all the right ingredients in just the right amounts to brew a perfect concoction of wit and imagination. Seasoned with spicy dialogue and shocking plot-twists, the story becomes a perfectly delicious read.

Six of Crows is a daring novel, unbound and unshackled by convention. While traditional fantasies depict a dark spasm in an otherwise utopic world, GrishaVerse makes no such promises. Instead, it rips apart the veil of illusion to reveal the depravity that exists even in fantasies. The story orbits slaves, orphans and prostitutes — survivors of oppression who fortified and built themselves with nothing but dust. They have no friends or family. “No mourners. No funerals.” — they chant as a charm of good luck.

Aside from that, what makes it truly a novel of the 21st Century is its diversity; readers will get to witness LGBT romances bloom on top of the hackneyed Romeo and Juliet trope.

Something I found disarming at first was that the novel begins with the assumption that readers will be well acquainted with the technical intricacies and terms indigenous to the GrishaVerse (a universe that Leigh has introduced in her previous works). So, if you’re new to this terrain, like I was, you are going to find yourself before a giant mass of unseen vocabulary, but that is nothing a quick googling can’t fix.

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Jun 19, 2021 necia rated it it was amazing

Shelves: just-can-t-put-it-down, all-time-favs

I've read this book couple months ago and it's itching me to write a review because this is literally my favourite book. I used to think that I can only enjoy a book if it's romance and though this book do contain an amount of romance it gave me more than I could've wanted in a book.
I'm talking about suspension lots of suspension, an amazing plot and really heart felt back stories etc..
I wish I knew how Leigh Bargudo does it, I started and was confused with the writing and all these knew charact ...more

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Apr 29, 2023 Brooke (brookesbooktoks) rated it it was amazing

“No Mourners. No Funerals.” This book was absolutely amazing! Inej and Nina were my favorites however all the characters were great. It’s 1am and I’m super tired lol so my review isn’t the best but I had the day off and was gonna take advantage of that to get this book finished. I absolutely cannot wait to read the sequel! I will say though I’m glad I read the Shadow and Bone trilogy first because I wouldn’t have understood a lot of this book. I know some people say you don’t have to read them t ...more

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