Six Of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
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quippeThe Blurb On The Back:
Criminal prodigy KAZ BREKKER has been offered wealth beyond his wildest dreams. But to clam it, he’ll have to pull off a seemingly impossible heist:
Break into the notorious Ice Court
(a military stronghold that has never been breached)
Retrieve a hostage
(who could unleash magical havoc on the world)
Survive long enough to collect his reward)
(and spend it)
Kaz needs a crew desperate enough to take on this suicide mission and dangerous enough to get the job done – and he knows exactly who: six of the deadliest outcasts the city has to offer. Together they just might be unstoppable – if they don’t kill each other first.
17-year-old Kaz Brekker is a criminal prodigy. Having risen from nowhere among the canal rats of Ketterdam, he’s now a lieutenant of Per Haskell (leader of the Dregs, one of the criminal gangs that runs the darker dealings in the port) and a rising force in the city. When the powerful merchant Van Eck approaches him with a proposal from the Kerch Council for an impossible task, Kaz sees his opportunity to get seriously rich. Van Eck wants him to break into the Fjerden Ice Court and rescue a man who has a formula that vastly amplifies the power of the Grishas – with deadly consequences. No one has ever broken into the Ice Court before and Kaz knows that for anyone else it would be a suicide mission but he thinks that with the right crew, he can pull it off. And so he assembles a rag tag band – sharpshooter Jesper, Grisha Heartrender Nina, acrobat Inej, demolition expert Wylan and inside man Matthias – who may, with a little bit of luck, pull off the biggest job of their lives …
Leigh Bardugo’s YA fantasy heist novel is an exhilarating and exuberant read set in the same world as her bestselling GRISHA TRILOGY – think OCEANS’S ELEVEN with a fantasy twist. The plot unfurls at a rollicking pace and the fun lies in how Bardugo puts obstacles in the path of her gang of thieves and shows them overcoming them. Although the gang themselves are taken from stock stereotypes, Bardugo invests enough in their backstory and relationships with each other to make you care about what happens to them – especially the apparently heartless Kaz, who I found fascinating both because of what happened to make him as he is and because of his fractious relationship with Inej and his ambitions for his future. I also enjoyed the expansion of the Grisha world and the hints of what is happening in Ravka following the dreadful civil war – this book draws more from Dutch, Chinese and Scandinavian influences in its world building and I enjoyed how Bardugo twists and makes them her own. The pace is relentless with Bardugo switching points of view to keep the action coming and seamlessly reveal backstory and as a result, I was gripped from beginning to end. The book ends with a set-up for a sequel, which I will most definitely be checking out.
The Verdict:
Leigh Bardugo’s YA fantasy heist novel is an exhilarating and exuberant read set in the same world as her bestselling GRISHA TRILOGY – think OCEANS’S ELEVEN with a fantasy twist. The plot unfurls at a rollicking pace and the fun lies in how Bardugo puts obstacles in the path of her gang of thieves and shows them overcoming them. Although the gang themselves are taken from stock stereotypes, Bardugo invests enough in their backstory and relationships with each other to make you care about what happens to them – especially the apparently heartless Kaz, who I found fascinating both because of what happened to make him as he is and because of his fractious relationship with Inej and his ambitions for his future. I also enjoyed the expansion of the Grisha world and the hints of what is happening in Ravka following the dreadful civil war – this book draws more from Dutch, Chinese and Scandinavian influences in its world building and I enjoyed how Bardugo twists and makes them her own. The pace is relentless with Bardugo switching points of view to keep the action coming and seamlessly reveal backstory and as a result, I was gripped from beginning to end. The book ends with a set-up for a sequel, which I will most definitely be checking out.
Criminal prodigy KAZ BREKKER has been offered wealth beyond his wildest dreams. But to clam it, he’ll have to pull off a seemingly impossible heist:
(a military stronghold that has never been breached)
Retrieve a hostage
(who could unleash magical havoc on the world)
Survive long enough to collect his reward)
(and spend it)
Kaz needs a crew desperate enough to take on this suicide mission and dangerous enough to get the job done – and he knows exactly who: six of the deadliest outcasts the city has to offer. Together they just might be unstoppable – if they don’t kill each other first.
17-year-old Kaz Brekker is a criminal prodigy. Having risen from nowhere among the canal rats of Ketterdam, he’s now a lieutenant of Per Haskell (leader of the Dregs, one of the criminal gangs that runs the darker dealings in the port) and a rising force in the city. When the powerful merchant Van Eck approaches him with a proposal from the Kerch Council for an impossible task, Kaz sees his opportunity to get seriously rich. Van Eck wants him to break into the Fjerden Ice Court and rescue a man who has a formula that vastly amplifies the power of the Grishas – with deadly consequences. No one has ever broken into the Ice Court before and Kaz knows that for anyone else it would be a suicide mission but he thinks that with the right crew, he can pull it off. And so he assembles a rag tag band – sharpshooter Jesper, Grisha Heartrender Nina, acrobat Inej, demolition expert Wylan and inside man Matthias – who may, with a little bit of luck, pull off the biggest job of their lives …
Leigh Bardugo’s YA fantasy heist novel is an exhilarating and exuberant read set in the same world as her bestselling GRISHA TRILOGY – think OCEANS’S ELEVEN with a fantasy twist. The plot unfurls at a rollicking pace and the fun lies in how Bardugo puts obstacles in the path of her gang of thieves and shows them overcoming them. Although the gang themselves are taken from stock stereotypes, Bardugo invests enough in their backstory and relationships with each other to make you care about what happens to them – especially the apparently heartless Kaz, who I found fascinating both because of what happened to make him as he is and because of his fractious relationship with Inej and his ambitions for his future. I also enjoyed the expansion of the Grisha world and the hints of what is happening in Ravka following the dreadful civil war – this book draws more from Dutch, Chinese and Scandinavian influences in its world building and I enjoyed how Bardugo twists and makes them her own. The pace is relentless with Bardugo switching points of view to keep the action coming and seamlessly reveal backstory and as a result, I was gripped from beginning to end. The book ends with a set-up for a sequel, which I will most definitely be checking out.
The Verdict:
Leigh Bardugo’s YA fantasy heist novel is an exhilarating and exuberant read set in the same world as her bestselling GRISHA TRILOGY – think OCEANS’S ELEVEN with a fantasy twist. The plot unfurls at a rollicking pace and the fun lies in how Bardugo puts obstacles in the path of her gang of thieves and shows them overcoming them. Although the gang themselves are taken from stock stereotypes, Bardugo invests enough in their backstory and relationships with each other to make you care about what happens to them – especially the apparently heartless Kaz, who I found fascinating both because of what happened to make him as he is and because of his fractious relationship with Inej and his ambitions for his future. I also enjoyed the expansion of the Grisha world and the hints of what is happening in Ravka following the dreadful civil war – this book draws more from Dutch, Chinese and Scandinavian influences in its world building and I enjoyed how Bardugo twists and makes them her own. The pace is relentless with Bardugo switching points of view to keep the action coming and seamlessly reveal backstory and as a result, I was gripped from beginning to end. The book ends with a set-up for a sequel, which I will most definitely be checking out.
