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A review by colbymillsaps
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
5.0
I'm impressed.
I won't lie, it took me a solid 100 pages to get into this book. Maybe if I read Shadow and Bone stuff first I would have had a better head for this world? But I went in clueless and there is a lot going on here. So yeah, the beginning of the story is all sorts of all over the place.
HOWEVER
Man can Bardugo weave a tale that has character growth and continually keep the reader on their toes and learning more. Little by little, she peeled away at these characters. Throughout the entirety of the novel, you got to learn a little bit more, never all at once. It was all planned. Cultivated. Revealed at exactly the right moment. You don't know who to love and who to hate. You don't know who to trust, or if you can trust anyone at all. And beneath it all, in an impossible world of magic and kids apparently in charge of a heist, there is something so human in each and every one of them. She somehow keeps them real and childish in the banter enough to make this ridiculous thing not only believable but something you can't put down.
It's been a while since a book has taken such hold of me. It's exciting.
I won't lie, it took me a solid 100 pages to get into this book. Maybe if I read Shadow and Bone stuff first I would have had a better head for this world? But I went in clueless and there is a lot going on here. So yeah, the beginning of the story is all sorts of all over the place.
HOWEVER
Man can Bardugo weave a tale that has character growth and continually keep the reader on their toes and learning more. Little by little, she peeled away at these characters. Throughout the entirety of the novel, you got to learn a little bit more, never all at once. It was all planned. Cultivated. Revealed at exactly the right moment. You don't know who to love and who to hate. You don't know who to trust, or if you can trust anyone at all. And beneath it all, in an impossible world of magic and kids apparently in charge of a heist, there is something so human in each and every one of them. She somehow keeps them real and childish in the banter enough to make this ridiculous thing not only believable but something you can't put down.
It's been a while since a book has taken such hold of me. It's exciting.