Katie’s Reviews > Crooked Kingdom > Status Update

cool. cool cool cool.

saw that coming from a book and a half away and am still sad.

“I’m dying anyway, Da. I’m just doing it slow.”
🤯

Well. This is all going quite poorly.

"'He was going to /break my legs/...Would you have come for me then, Kaz? When I couldn't scale a wall or walk a tightrope? When I wasn't the Wraith anymore?'

Dirtyhands would not. The boy who could get them through this, get their money, keep them alive, would do her the courtesy of putting her out of her misery, then cut his losses and move on.
'...I would come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you,'"

"'Why the net, Kaz?'
Yes, why the net? Why something that would complicate the assault he'd planned on the silos and leave them twice as open to exposure? /I couldn't bear to watch you fall./"

[dysfunctional noncommunication intensifies]

You think Nina's fine, and then you get into Nina's head and you realize that she's NOT fine, not at all, and it is BRUTAL.

[spoilers]

I think Kaz is being cold to encourage Jesper to go home with his dad when they’re through. Just a theory, though.