A review by ever_laurel
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

adventurous dark funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.5

Another book I don't quite know where to put. There are parts of the plot I thoroughly enjoyed, there are characters I loved (Nina, Jesper and Wylan, and I will die on this hill, no matter how much my buddy read disagrees). There are other parts of the plot which felt a little silly to me, especially towards the end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Murder, and Deportation

Moderate: Genocide and Abandonment

I am no fan of overly dreadful background stories in fantasy novels, this book has plenty of that. I am also no fan of all too graphic descriptions of violence, and of books treating the lives of enemy forces as disposable (no need to kill that many guards). But then again, the worldbuilding felt good, refreshingly unique, the descriptions of Fjerda immersive (although the Fjerdan treatment of Grisha is a bit holocaust-coded, I think, and I am really unsure if I consider a fantasy book the right place to deal with this topic) and the language nerd inside me is especially enamored with every sentence of Fjerdan language we got to see. Well, well. Let's see how part 2, or, dare I say, the second half of this unfinished story, turns out.