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A review by filmingpages
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
5.0
My first initial reaction after finishing this book, was: "WHY DIDN'T I READ THIS SOONER???" To say that I loved it, is an understatement about how passionately I feel about this book and those characters!
I have to admit that the first few chapters felt a little bit slow to me, I didn't know what was going on and I was trying to understand everyone's relationship with one another! I felt a bit lost, but shortly after, everything was quite clear and the plot started moving fast and I was able to thoroughly enjoy it!!
The most important part of this book is it's characters and I loved them all for different reasons!! I'd love to be friends with Kaz and Nina so much, I think they make excellent company, even though Kaz can be a bit brooding sometimes! Inej has amazing skills and I loved her so much, because she also had morals, something that the other members of the Dregs seem to lack often! Matthias was so funny without knowing it, I loved his scowling face and grumpy retorts and his relationship with Nina was aaaaall the feels!! My least two favorite characters are Jesper and Wylan. I don't have much to say about Wylan, because I felt like he was a filler character, but I have to say that I almost despised Jesper. He was so arrogant all the time and the fact that he was the reason why the got ambushed and Inej almost lost her life, was unforgivable for me. I'm not saying that I hate him, I just really really don't like him!
Plot wise, I think the siege in the Ice Court was so well written and I loved that nothing happened easily and they had complications on the way. Also, I have to note that there were many nice and unexpected plot twists that I really loved and made me want to keep reading all night long!
I liked the world building, I couldn't shake the feeling that maybe Ketterdam is Amsterdam and I loved that I knew everything about the Grisha from the Grisha trilogy and so it was easy to follow this story too.
Lastly, something that bothered me a bit, was the fact that everyone seemed to be in need of a love interest. Matthias and Nina's love story was my favorite, because it had a solid backstory and their emotions were palpable throughout the whole book. I can also see the attraction between Kaz and Inej, they've been working together for years, so I can totally understand their feelings. But Wylan and Jesper's relationship was completely unnecessary for me. I just felt the author made them fall in love just for representation. I know that's a controversial opinion, many people loooove their relationship, but unfortunately it didn't do it for me...
All in all, "Six of Crows" is an awesome book that I'll always cherish and most definitely will reread!!
I have to admit that the first few chapters felt a little bit slow to me, I didn't know what was going on and I was trying to understand everyone's relationship with one another! I felt a bit lost, but shortly after, everything was quite clear and the plot started moving fast and I was able to thoroughly enjoy it!!
The most important part of this book is it's characters and I loved them all for different reasons!! I'd love to be friends with Kaz and Nina so much, I think they make excellent company, even though Kaz can be a bit brooding sometimes! Inej has amazing skills and I loved her so much, because she also had morals, something that the other members of the Dregs seem to lack often! Matthias was so funny without knowing it, I loved his scowling face and grumpy retorts and his relationship with Nina was aaaaall the feels!! My least two favorite characters are Jesper and Wylan. I don't have much to say about Wylan, because I felt like he was a filler character, but I have to say that I almost despised Jesper. He was so arrogant all the time and the fact that he was the reason why the got ambushed and Inej almost lost her life, was unforgivable for me. I'm not saying that I hate him, I just really really don't like him!
Plot wise, I think the siege in the Ice Court was so well written and I loved that nothing happened easily and they had complications on the way. Also, I have to note that there were many nice and unexpected plot twists that I really loved and made me want to keep reading all night long!
I liked the world building, I couldn't shake the feeling that maybe Ketterdam is Amsterdam and I loved that I knew everything about the Grisha from the Grisha trilogy and so it was easy to follow this story too.
Lastly, something that bothered me a bit, was the fact that everyone seemed to be in need of a love interest. Matthias and Nina's love story was my favorite, because it had a solid backstory and their emotions were palpable throughout the whole book. I can also see the attraction between Kaz and Inej, they've been working together for years, so I can totally understand their feelings. But Wylan and Jesper's relationship was completely unnecessary for me. I just felt the author made them fall in love just for representation. I know that's a controversial opinion, many people loooove their relationship, but unfortunately it didn't do it for me...
All in all, "Six of Crows" is an awesome book that I'll always cherish and most definitely will reread!!