Six of Crow: Crooked Kingdom Collector's Edition

talented brilliant incredible amazing show stopping spectacular never the same totally unique completely not ever been done before

I'm awful at writing reviews but I just need to world to know how amazing this book was. There was so many twists and turns, I never shouted so much over a bit. It was so smartly written, all these schemes and plots must have needed so much thought behind them. The character are amazing, such good back stories and development and emotions. This book was he most exciting thing I've read for as long as I can remember and I'm so so sad that it's over. I NEED MORE

i CRIED cried and now i need a nap.

I just love these losers so much.

Just wanted to say that this book stole my heart, my body, my everything every single page and I just can't believe I finished! This was beautiful, it was amazing, it was heartbreaking but also so damn funny! Leigh Bardugo, thank you so much for this masterpiece No mourners, no funerals.

This is the kind of book they should add in to high school curriculums to make kids effing love reading. I LOVED this book. LOVED it. Plot: Taut, twisting, the opposite of lazy. Pace: Perfect. Characters: I’m still crying. Villains: SO MANY. My favorite kind of villain is multiple villains. Dialogue: Incredibly not shitty. I did not cringe once. Do you know how rare that is? It’s fucking rare. Writing: 5x better than I expected it to be and I didn’t expect it to be not good. Setting: Holy shit my head exploded Kerch was exquisitely/brutally drawn and holy eff the god damn map at the beginning!? Stop it. Ending: I am so satisfied and also I can stop weeping. Emotional Pack: See above. Laid on the floor crying for a little bit a couple times. My husband got made at me because I kept audibly yelling and gasping and laughing and see above crying ugly cry sounds. My one complaint: Kaz did a really out of character thing once and it was kind of pivotal to the story that he did it and he shouldn’t have in the first place and it made me mad. But that lasted for like 5 seconds and I don’t really care anymore.

Fourth book of Tis the Damn Readathon Album: Fearless Prompt: Fifteen (Read a book that is YA in genre) Even better than Six of Crows. But also, HOW DARE

highkey really want another book about all of them

When I finished reading Six of Crows I was really excited to start Crooked Kingdom but also a little worried because I didn't think anything could be better than the first book. But boy was I wrong! This book takes you on a whirlwind ride. The way that this book was written was so clever and I thought that it was absolutely beautiful. Leigh Bardugo was able to write emotional scenes that just make you want to ball your eyes out, action scenes that make you feel like you are sat on the edge of a cliff and plot twists that have you shouting at the book!  I absolutely loved the character development and the direction in which the duology went. I loved every character and just like in the previous book they all stood out and even though they were so different they fit together so well and made for a story that was amazing! “I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.” The characters are so realistically flawed and they didn't just change from page to page, Leigh was able show progress without it feeling rushed and she has a way of making you fall in love with her characters. There was some emotional scenes that were amazing I'm not going to go into too many details because I really don't want to spoil the plot for those of you who haven't read it yet so i'll just weave some of my favourite quotes into this review instead.  “Meeting you was a disaster.” She raised a brow. “Thank you.” Djel, he was terrible at this. He stumbled on, trying to make her understand. “But I am grateful for that disaster. I needed a catastrophe to shake me from the life I knew. You were an earthquake, a landslide.” “I,” she said, planting a hand on her hip, “am a delicate flower.” “You aren’t a flower, you’re every blossom in the wood blooming at once. You are a tidal wave. You’re a stampede. You are overwhelming.”  The relationships developed wonderfully and I really found it refreshing that they didn't take away from the main story of the book and never became the main focus yet they were still amazing and I was rooting for all of my favorites! “You’re stupid about a lot of things, Wylan, but you are not stupid. And if I ever hear you call yourself a moron again, I’m going to tell Matthias you tried to kiss Nina. With tongue." Wylan wiped his nose on his sleeve. “He’ll never believe it."  "Then I’ll tell Nina you tried to kiss Matthias. With tongue.”  Overall I thought that this book was incredible and had everything an amazing book should. I would highly recommend that you read The Grisha Trilogy before this Duology because some characters from that series do appear in this book and knowing about what happens in The Grisha Trilogy definitely made the experience even better. (I literally screamed when Nikolai made his appearance!) Six of Crows: 5 Stars Crooked Kingdom: 5 Stars

BRILLIANT!!!!! I can’t fully organise my thoughts on this, or even wrap my mind on what I’ve just read. What an amazing awesome book! The characters are *chef’s kiss*; their connections as well. And the plot wow: talk about plot twist followed by plot twist, and all mind-blowingly unexpected. And the emotions, the feelings this evoked… oh my heart. I absolutely loved it.

5/5⭐️

** spoiler alert ** I loved the sequel as much as the first book. Omg the characters 😍 Kaz and Inej are pure gold ! What about chapter 40 !!!! Poor Mathias and poor Nina 😭😭

As much as I enjoyed Six of Crows, I think this story was just a little better. Whereas in the first I was pretty sure the gang would pull their heist off one way or another, the story in this book was a lot trickier and it wouldn't have surprised me if in the end it all would have gone terribly wrong. There were really only two pretty small things I did not enjoy. One was the use of some Dutch sprinkled throughout. I know that Rotterdam (and other cities) were just an inspiration, but it still pained me to see something simple as "good morning" being translated the wrong way. Maybe it was on purpose, but it irked me nonetheless. The second thing is the age of the characters. The truly gory scenes and the romance scenes felt off to me but I didn't really know why until there had been a few of them. Then I realised it just felt weird that some kids from 16 to 18 years old were behaving this way. In my head I had just unconsciously aged them up to their early twenties, which made a lot more sense to me. It was just that their ages were sometimes mentioned throughout the book which would then make it feel weird. Overall though I loved the story and even the characters as far as that's possible for people who do the things they do. It was an ingenious combination of character growth and scheming mixed together into a diverse story which I definitely more than enjoyed.

j'aimerais tellement qu'il y ait 40 000 tomes de SOC... c'est tellement tout sauf lassant. je ne sais pas comment Leigh Bargudo fait pour avoir un tel talent avec ses personnages et son univers, c'est juste dingue. C'est un livre qui mérite clairement tout le succès qu'il a, si pas plus. J'ai trop hâte de voir l'adaptation Netflix. Juste si vous êtes tenté par le grishaverse, n'oubliez pas de lire ça dans l'ordre car si soc en vaut la peine, grisha aussi ! august 21 i think this is the definition of a really good book. There are no weaknesses who can’t become strengths. Everything is there. Words. Feelings. Cleverness. Imperfections who built the story and an end who concludes a glimpse of life in another space time.

** spoiler alert ** Me costó acabarlo, ya que es muy largo y tampoco quería llegar al capítulo 40, porque sabía lo que pasaba. Me gustó la forma en la que se va formando la relación entre Kaz e Inej y la confianza que él empieza a tener ella, hasta tal punto que la toca sin los guantes puestos. Hubo momentos entre ellos muy tiernos, pero el mejor fue la escena del baño y la final, donde ella le presenta a su padres. La relación entre Wylan y Jasper me parece adorable y me alegré de que acabaran juntos. No me terminaba de convencer el rollo que se llevaba Kuwei con Jesper y que le engañara para que lo besara. El final de Nina y Matthias me dolió mucho, ya que por fin él había cambiado y había logrado deshacerse del odio hacia los grisha y quería hacer lo mismo con los demás fjerdanos, para que luego uno de ellos le matara. Hay mucho drama, mucho misterio, mucho lío con los planes, ya que nadie sabe lo que Kaz tiene planeado excepto Kaz. Lo que más me gustó es que cada uno de ellos se enfrentó a lo que más le asustaba: Wylan a su padre, quitándole todo su poder. Jesper a su hábito de juego, que había puesto a su padre en peligro. Kaz a su trauma, hablando de ello y resolviendo las cosas con Inej. Nina a su nuevo poder, que al final fue lo que les ayudó a sobrevivir. Inej a su trauma, sobreviviendo a las torturas de Van Eck. Y Matthias a sus instintos, enamorándose de Nina y muriendo defendiendo a los grisha.

This book put me through a rollercoaster of emotions. I never knew what was happening next. I was also a little confused on what was currently happening sometime but hey everyone is confused when it comes to Kaz Bekker. The mer size of this book was so daunting to me. It was difficult to pick it up at time and I felt I would never finish it. But let me tell you the last 200 pages was a whirlwind! -SPOILERS- I was a little upset about how the relationships ended. So much build up for very little. Kaz and Inej need either a short story or a whole book!! I need ANSWERS. Wylan and Jesper were adorable and got some closure to their story. DON’T get me started on Nina and Matthias. I was not expecting that at all and I am still broken. I was fully expecting Nina to do something about it but NOOOOO. I don’t know if I can forgive Ms. Bardugo.

"𝑇𝘩𝑎𝑡'𝑠 𝑤𝘩𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢'𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑔," 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝐾𝑎𝑧. "𝐼 𝑑𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝘩𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑎 𝑔𝑟𝑢𝑑𝑔𝑒. 𝐼 𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑙𝑒 𝑖𝑡. 𝐼 𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑑𝑙𝑒 𝑖𝑡. 𝐼 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑡 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑐𝑢𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝘩𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑠𝑐𝘩𝑜𝑜𝑙𝑠. 𝐼 𝑛𝑢𝑟𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑚𝑦 𝑔𝑟𝑢𝑑𝑔𝑒𝑠, 𝑅𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑠." 𝐸𝑁/𝐹𝑅 Being the second volume’s review, It’ll be principaly compose of spoilers. And also because since I’ve closed this book I only had two desire, screaming or re-read it. Before anything, let’s applause once again Leigh Bardugo’s evolution, whom writing and creativity seem to have made giant step since her first trilogy. I preferred this second book to the first for the simple reason that I found the story’s pacing extremely well done, no point of the plot was left on the side of the road, and we should also point out the fact that she managed to use only the city of Ketterdam as a scene for her story. Speaking of which, I’ve rarely been this happy to have a map and to be able to come back as often as I wanted to, and need to. From a personal point of view, and here It’s more my feeling rather than my reason who speak, I didn’t want to finish this book, it was to such a point that I did not want to move forward in it, I have much better time to read it for that reason. I didn’t want to leave the crew, these six characters that we inevitably ends up considering as companions. But again, Bardugo succeeds this trick with an outrageous address, even when the time comes to let them go and close the book, they continue to live in your mind. Etant la revue du deuxième tome, mon avis sera principalement composé de spoilers. Et à titre accessoire parce que depuis que j’ai fermé ce livre je n’ai que deux envie, hurler et le relire. Avant tout, saluons encore une fois l’évolution de Leigh Bardugo, dont l’écriture et la créativité semblent avoir fait un pas de géant depuis sa première trilogie. J’ai préféré ce second livre au premier pour la simple et bonne raison que j’ai trouvé son rythme extrêmement bien mené, aucun point de l’intrigue n’a été laissé sur le côté, et il faut aussi souligner le fait qu’elle ait réussi à n’utiliser que la ville de Ketterdam comme scène pour son histoire. D’ailleurs en parlant de ça, j’ai rarement était aussi heureuse d’avoir une carte et de pouvoir y revenir aussi souvent que j’en avais envie, et besoin. D’un point de vue purement personnel, et ce sont ici mes sentiments plus que ma raison qui s’expriment, je ne voulais pas finir ce livre, c’était à un tel point que je ne voulais pas avancer dedans, j’ai d’ailleurs mis beaucoup de temps à le lire pour cette raison. Je ne voulais pas quitter cette bande, ces six personnages qu'on finit inévitablement par considérer comme des compagnons. Mais encore une fois, Bardugo réussit ce tour avec une adresse scandaleuse, même quand vient le moment de les laisser partir et de fermer le livre, ils continuent à vivre dans votre esprit. (view spoiler)[ Alright, now I can scream. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH. Okay thanks. First of all, WHAT THE FUCK? Killing Matthias you psycho wtf Bardugo ??? Let’s keep some calm. I have to say that I’ve had understand that the story will be an enormous plan on how Kaz will trick the entire city, destroying it, build on it and as he love to say “watch it burn” However, I didn’t see Nikolaï coming to be honest and It was such a good surprise oh my god I love this man so much please give him to me. I love and respect the fact that the author keeps all her universe attached and logical, she never forgets that she has other characters in this world that exist there and can find themselves mixed in the current story. Only little thing that I keep being curious about is Dunyasha’s story. Where did this psycho come from ? You have to know that I love a good business plan, with more economic than psychologic terms. And once again, I was amazed by Brekker giant brain, scheming abilities. As for my first review I’ll go character per character, as honestly they’re the heart of the story. Inej was way more interesting in this book than the first one in my opinion, we were able to appreciate her strength and determination, especially at the end when she say that she’ll not dedicate her life to cure Kaz, that she had more important goals. THAT MY FRIENDS IS THE FEMINISM THAT WE WANT IN FANTASY, THAT WE NEED. Also, I arrived to the conclusion that I only like two type of romance, enemies to lovers, and Kaz-Inej type of things. Jesper my boy, I love you. Sorry, little bit too much I know. But man he was good. Everything was so well done with him. His “sickness”, being addict to gambling, due to his lack of use of his power was perfectly logical and I’m kinda ashamed to say I didn’t see it coming after knowing he was a Fabrikator. And his background story has allowed to give another perspective to the fact of being a Grisha in this universe, you can be the weapon, or the victim. Also, I ship him so hard with Wylan. Talking about Wylan, I’ll not accept any divergent opinion, this man had the best development and I was so glad to have chapter in his point of view. I’m so proud of him, he become a real crow, I’m soft. We’ll not talk about Kuwei that long because to be honest, I didn’t digest this son of a bitch trick to kiss Jesper. at least he understood what he owed to others, his freedom. Nina, darling, how can you doubt the fact that you’re now a powerful grisha ? I mean you can raise the dead? Can you imagine more powerful power ? There will always be dead, nobody can escape it and you can control it. I may sound like a crazy bitch, what’s new? But I found it quite poetic the fact that the Heartrender of the story ends up being heartbroken. Matthias, I’m sorry. I had the sense that his place in the story was less important than in the first book, probably because Ketterdam isn’t his territory like the Ice Court but I quite enjoy seeing him understand that the world can change and what you thought was pure truth yesterday, can be all wrong today. I saw his death coming and honestly, I found it quite ridiculous. But I cried like a baby, and I hope that the wolves were glad to have him back. It may seem funny, but I loved the idea of Pekka’s point of view being the last chapter of both books, giving him the last word and seing how he change between the two was really interesting and I even re-read the last chapter of Six of Crows to see the evolution, chief’s kiss. Kaz, honey. I still want to marry you, but If I can have Nikolaï, I’ll applause to your weeding with Inej. I’m way too extreme today I’m sorry. Am I the only one who thought that his character was less developed in this book? I mean always the most funniest one (yes for me he’s funny) in a sarcastic way, an absolute genius who has deserved his place as a Barrel king, and the fighting scene with the Dregs gave me chills to be honest. I loved the fact that the author made him more human in a way, but also gave explanations for everything he is. You won Brekker, my heart and the game. Okay maintenant je peux hurler. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH Bien merci. Avant tout, WHAT THE FUCK ? Tuer Matthias vraiment Bardugo ??? Essayons de garder notre calme. Je dois dire que j’avais bien compris que l’histoire serait un énorme plan sur comment Kaz allait piéger la ville entière, la détruire, construire à nouveau et comme il aime le dire « regarder tout brûler » Cependant, je n’ai pas vu Nikolaï arriver pour être honnête, et oh mon dieu c’était une tellement bonne surprise. J’aime tellement cet homme donnez-le moi merci bien. J’adore et respecte le fait que l’autrice garde tout son univers lié et logique, elle n’oublie jamais qu’elle a d’autres personnages dans ce monde, qui y existent et peuvent se retrouver mêlés à l’histoire en cours. La seule chose qui continue à m’intriguer est l’histoire de Dunyasha. D’où cette espèce de folle vient-elle ? Il faut que vous sachiez que j’apprécie toujours un bon business plan, avec des retombées davantage économiques que psychologiques, et encore une fois j’ai été fascinée par le cerveau surpuissant de Brekker et ses capacités de manigances. Tout comme dans ma première revue, je vais faire personnage par personnage car honnêtement, ils sont le cœur de l’histoire. Inej a été bien plus intéressante dans ce second livre que le premier de mon point de vue, on a pu apprécier sa force et sa détermination, spécifiquement à la fin quand elle dit qu’elle ne dédiera pas sa vie à soigner Kaz, qu’elle a d’autres buts plus importants. ET CECI MES AMIS EST LE FEMINISME QUE NOUS VOULONS EN FANTASY, DONT NOUS AVONS BESOIN. Aussi, j’en suis arrivée à la conclusion que je n’aime que deux types de romance, d’ennemis à amants, et le genre Kaz-Inej. Jesper, mon gars, je t’aime. Désolé c’était un peu trop je sais. Mais mon dieu qu’il a été bon. Tout était tellement bien fait à son propos. Sa « maladie », son addiction aux jeux, due au fait qu’il n’utilise pas son pouvoir, était parfaitement logique et je suis un peu honteuse de ne pas l’avoir vu venir après avoir appris qu’il était un Fabrikator. Et son histoire personnelle nous a aussi permis de donner une autre perspective au fait d’être Grisha dans cet univers, vous pouvez être l’arme ou la victime. Et aussi, c’est un ship gagnant avec Wylan. En parlant de Wylan, je n’accepterai aucun argument contraire, il a eu le meilleur développement personnel, et j’étais tellement heureuse d’avoir enfin des chapitres de son point de vue. Je suis tellement fière il est devenu un vrai corbeau. Nous n’allons pas parler de Kuwei très longtemps car pour être honnête, je ne lui ai toujours pardonné son sale coup pour embrasser Jesper, au moins il a compris ce qu’il devait aux autres, sa liberté. Nina, ma chère, comment peux-tu douter du fait que tu es une puissante Grisha ? Enfin soyons honnêtes, tu peux réveiller les morts ? Peux-tu imaginer un pouvoir plus puissant ? Il y a aura toujours des morts, personne ne peut y échapper et tu peux les contrôler. Je vais peut-être passer pour la tarée de la bande, mais est-ce nouveau ? J’ai trouvé ça très poétique que la personne qui est Heartrender finisse avec le cœur brisé. Matthias, je suis désolée. J’avais l’impression que sa place dans l’histoire était moins importante que dans le premier livre, probablement car Ketterdam n’était pas son territoire comme la Ice Court mais j’ai bien apprécié le fait qu’il évolue, qu’il comprenne que le monde peut changer et que ce qu’il pensait être la pure vérité hier peut être entièrement faux aujourd’hui. J’ai vu sa mort arriver, et honnêtement je l’ai trouvée assez ridicule. Mais j’ai quand même pleurer comme un bébé, et j’espère encore et toujours que les loups étaient heureux de le retrouver. Cela peut sembler drôle mais j’ai adoré le fait que le point de vue de Pekka Rollins était le dernier chapitre de chaque livre, lui donnant le dernier mot et voir comment il a changé entre les deux livres était vraiment enrichissant, j’ai même relu le dernier chapitre de Six of Crows pour voir l’évolution, délicieux. Kaz, honey. Je veux toujours t’épouser, mais si je peux avoir Nikolaï, j’applaudirai à ton mariage avec Inej. Je suis bien trop extrême aujourd’hui, pardon. Suis-je la seule à avoir trouvé que son personnage était moins développé dans ce livre-ci ? Enfin je veux dire, il est toujours le plus drôle de la bande (pour moi il est drôle d’accord ?) d’une façon très sarcastique, un génie absolu qui mérite largement sa place comme roi du Barrel, et la scène de combat avec les Dregs m’a foutu des frissons. J’ai adoré le fait que l’autrice l’a rendu plus humain, mais a aussi donné des explications sur absolument tout ce qu’il est. Tu as gagné Brekker, mon cœur et la partie. (hide spoiler)]

4.25 stars I really enjoyed this. The first half was a little slow, but I especially like the second half because it was much about the character's development and let's be honest, that's the best part of these books.

I cried. Thanks bardugo, thanks .

*CRIED ALL THE TEARS* *Hello darkness, my old friend I've come to talk with you again...* I haven't cried this much since The Return of The King, by J.R.R. Tolkien. My heart hurts and I feel so lost. I grew insanely attached to the crows and now that I reached the end of CK, I don't really know what to do with myself. How am I supposed to move on to other books after this? *cries again* Time to go rewatch Shadow and Bone and eat chocolate to calm my nerves. Bye.

4,5⭐