Reviews

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

estelanardoni's review

adventurous challenging emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

junereads's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious 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

gimbal_lock's review

dark mysterious tense fast-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

5.0

pixifirebolt's review against another edition

5.0

This. Was. So. Good.
Going in, for whatever reason, I had no idea that this took place in the Grishaverse and I haven't read the Grisha series so when I started reading I thought I'd made a mistake in picking it up. I did a bit of research to check that I didn't need to have read Grisha and then continued on. And am I glad I did! It maybe would have been helpful to have read Grisha but it definitely is not required.

Everybody always raves about the characters in this book and I totally agree, they are so well developed and you grow to love all of them. I always hear people go on about Kaz and Inej, but what about Nina and Matthias? I think I actually preferred reading their relationship, but maybe that will change after reading Crooked Kingdom.

I did find the pacing a little slow to begin with but it soon picked up and I realised that everything at the start of the book was needed for the rest of it to work. The only real issue I had was that I found some of the perspectives weren't distinct from each other and I had to remind myself who I was reading from on occasion, but I honestly don't think it was a big enough problem for me to dock it a star.

olivera420's review against another edition

5.0

2020: 1 star
Three years later I'm doing a full 180.
Kaz just owns me I guess.

sydney_arcuri's review against another edition

5.0

after reading the shadow and bone series i understand a lot more of the book and omg i forgot how much i missed it.

kmkasiner's review against another edition

3.0

Unpopular opinion time! This book was the perfect storm for me--ensemble cast, magnificent bastards, urban fantasy setting, moral grey areas--but I thought it was just good, not great. It reminded me a lot of The Bone Season and I found myself constantly comparing the two books, so that might be part of it. (Jaxon Hall has a sense of menace that I never completely felt from Kaz.) None of the characters seemed like teenagers to me...we're supposed to believe they're all super competent, hardened criminals and I can't reconcile that with them being 15-17 years old. There was no sense of coming of age. Maybe I'm too old and jaded. Despite my complaints, I did enjoy the heist plot and I liked most of the romance.

pato_oso's review

adventurous emotional 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

5.0

romantasy_reader's review

adventurous dark mysterious 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

scarlizziereads's review against another edition

5.0

Nina please marry me