Six of Crows

, #1

English language

Published Sept. 25, 2016 by Henry Holt and Co. (BYR).

ISBN:
978-1-250-12356-5
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4 stars (75 reviews)

Six of Crows is a fantasy novel written by the Israeli-American author Leigh Bardugo and published by Henry Holt and Co. in 2015. The story follows a thieving crew and is primarily set in the city of Ketterdam, which is loosely inspired by Dutch Republic–era Amsterdam. The plot is told from third-person viewpoints of six different characters. The novel is followed by Crooked Kingdom (2016) and is part of the Grishaverse. Nina's storyline continues in the King of Scars duology: King of Scars (2019) and Rule of Wolves (2021), and the other Crows make cameo appearances in the latter novel.

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3 stars

Entertaining, light popcorn type fair. Not a lot of substance, but enjoyable.

Expected to despise this book, in part because I really disliked these characters from the Netflix series "Shadow and Bone" and because I am not a fan of YA, but it was actually pretty enjoyable for a while. Did get a bit tiresome near the end.

The plot is pretty predictable. The characters are rather superficial. Everyone has some tragic sob story, which gets pretty old after a while, constant flashbacks break a lot of the tension.

Kaz is a garbage character. The author tells us a hundred times what a terrible person he is, but he seems fine and his sob story was the least believable and most tiresome of them all.

All the characters should have been older, but the author had to make them fit into the YA group so they HAD to be 17 …

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4 stars

Liked this one too, though it started out a bit rough. Great pacing, some actual characters other than Blandy McBland & the love of their life to whom they rarely speak. (I read the first Grishaverse book before this, lol) Inej is still my fave character (I also watched the Netflix show before I read the first book) but Jesper has a secret! What kept me reading after the start was the story between Nina & Matthias.

There's great representation, queer, ace, neurodivergent, PoC, disability - that persists, even where magic & narrative exist to 'fix' it. So extremely refreshing.

Also magic & explosions, fuck yeh

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4 stars

I was a bit sceptical since I started watching the newly released tv show Shadow & Bone just before getting started with Six of Crows and got annoyed by the show so much that I expected the worst from this book (since the show is such a failure for me, having loved Shadow & Bone the book series).

Happily, I was mistaken and this book was very good. I really enjoyed it a lot and cannot wait to continue with this book series. The characters are quite interesting and even though the story itself is well rounded (and ends in no major cliffhangers), the kind of preview of what is to come is very interesting.

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4 stars

Taking the fantasy setting she created in the Shadow & Bone trilogy, the author weaves a very compelling fantasy heist filled with interesting characters with conflicting motivations. The book expands the setting the author established before while presenting a story that is more interesting than the original.

I would recommend starting with this book if not for the multiple spoilers for the original trilogy. If you don't care about spoilers, start with this book. If you do, then you should read the original Shadow & Bone trilogy first.

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5 stars

MY HEART MY FUUUKK ING HEART


can I just say how I love every bit of this book. I loved all six of them. everyone of them is special. I can get enough of them interacting together. from kaz being the perfect thief who's imperfect in every way possible to nina and mattias interesting and intense enemies-to-lovers. and jasper being a badass energetic gay cowboy, inej a assassin who can kill you by her speech before her knives ever touch you, she's just that great, wylan pearl of the group. he's such good guy I wanna hug him. I love all of them to death

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3 stars

I kind of liked this book but didn't love it? I liked the memorable female characters, (Nina and Inej) and the story has an unusual texture that reminds me a lot of "The Lies of Locke Lamora". But it always felt as if I was kept at a bit at a distance.
This might be because the characters were all just a touch too cool to be true, too elegant, too much like stylised photoshop-artworks complete with outer-glow, than real flesh-and-blood people I could care about. They speak the language of "witty banter" rather than anything a real person would say, which made it hard for me to take them seriously. That's why I find it hard to achieve the suspension of disbelief the story asks. This is often the case - if a book has sold me on the emotional angle and I care about the characters I can …

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I had conveniently not noticed that it's a first in a series, so, the end is kind of satisfying, but it's also a set-up for more, not a cliffhanger exactly, but still.
And I think that about covers my objections to this book.

It reminded me a bit of [b: The Lies of Locke Lamora|29588376|The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1)|Scott Lynch|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1458646334s/29588376.jpg|2116675].

It's a fantasy book, with what I would call a hard magic system. The plot of the book is a heist. The story is told from several of the characters perspectives. Helps us, readers, be a bit in the dark about what's about to happen too, but is also just nice, because the characters in it are great.

I really enjoyed this read.

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4 stars

This book has been all over bookstagram for years and I have been wanting to read it but there was something I had to do first. Although this duology stands alone from the Grisha trilogy, I was aware there was a spoiler contained in the pages, so I was determined to finish the trilogy first. And I finally did last year.

Six of Crows is the grown-up, darker cousin to the Grisha trilogy. It follows Kaz Brekker as he prepares his gang for the biggest job of their lives, an almost impossible heist which will pay enough for them all to retire to a life of luxury. Although the job is kinda of a prison break, it follows the formula of a heist story, with the team being assembled and the ensuing disagreements you can come to expect from such a motley bunch.

The characters are fantastic and I enjoyed …

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4 stars

I wasn't particularly fascinated with the setting or the plot, but really liked the characters and the fact that they don't magically overcome their problems in the end. It took me a long time to get into the story, as the beginning was quite dragged out with world building and travelling to where the heist is going to happen and stuff, but once the plot gained momentum, it was really nicely written and almost un-put-downable.

reviewed Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo (Six of Crows, #1)

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4 stars

This novel features both a brilliant heist and a great cast of characters. What more could you want? I finished it quickly and it compares very favorably to similar books.

Kaz Brekker aka Dirtyhands the baddest boy in the baddest part of Ketterdam (a thinly veiled Fantasy disguise for Amsterdam, since I haven't been to either that's a guess though). He does a credible job as (more or less) evil mastermind.
Inej, the Wraith, his personal master spy, knife artist and acrobat.
Jesper the risk-addicted, gambling sharp-shooter, and Kaz' right hand. I seem to imagine him wearing a floppy hat (which he doesn't at least not in the book).
Nina, the witchy witch who literally breaks people's hearts.
Wylan, the slumming merchant's son who makes stuff explode. Also he has a nice singing voice.
And an unnamed "tank" they'll have to "recruit" first. Matthias the northern giant with the moral …

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