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The Six of Crows Duology Boxed Set by Leigh Bardugo

3 reviews

ineedrhythm's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Ableism, Body shaming, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Trafficking, and Classism

Minor: Torture

bel017's review against another edition

Too depressing for me. So miserable. Yes there's competent protagonists and found family, but there's not enough kindness. And if

you don't all survive so the book ends miserably

then what's the point of reading 2200 ePages? I want to feel better at the end of that.

Maybe I'm just too old. I most related to Colm Fahey.

ETA: The MCs relationship is still annoying to me.

I don't like that she essentially said 'if you don't touch me you can't have me'. There are presumably millions of wonderful long-term relationships where there is minimal skin contact (e.g. ACE, loved one in a care facility, sensory issues, preference, very young/old) that that viewpoint discounts. In a YA I would prefer to see more nuance about that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, and Death of parent

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Body horror, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

la_dee_da's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Overall, great duology. I will say that  it’s confusing in the beginning of Six of Crows, for the first few chapters, because they just throw you into the story, but overall, great characters, great plot, great development. An absolutely epic sequel series to the “Shadow and Bone” trilogy. 
Representation: Two disabled MCs, two MCs of color, three LGBTQ+ MCs

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence