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Crooked Kingdom: A Sequel to Six of Crows (edition 2016)

by Leigh Bardugo (Author)

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Kaz Brekker and his crew have just pulled off a heist so daring even they didn't think they'd survive. But instead of divvying up a fat reward, they're right back to fighting for their lives. Double-crossed and badly weakened, the crew is low on resources, allies, and hope. As powerful forces from around the world descend on Ketterdam to root out the secrets of the dangerous drug known as jurda parem, old rivals and new enemies emerge to challenge Kaz's cunning and test the team's fragile loyalties. A war will be waged on the city's dark and twisting streets--a battle for revenge and redemption that will decide the fate of the Grisha world. --… (more)
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Title:Crooked Kingdom: A Sequel to Six of Crows
Authors:Leigh Bardugo (Author)
Info:Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) (2016), 560 pages
Collections:Your library, Signed, Audiobook, Read 2021
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Tags:Fantasy, GrishaVerse, YA, Signed, 100 Books 21

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Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

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...I'm already feeling nostalgic over these books. The Crows are so great, and Ketterdam is so cinematic and sensory it swallowed me whole. (Even now, part of me is still in the dark, scrappy port town waiting to see what blows up next.) I'm not ready to part with themmmmm! Might die of heartbreak if they don’t get their alleged third book lol. ( )
  hannerwell | Feb 24, 2024 |
Wonderful. I love Kaz. *sniffle* ( )
  Megan_Demers | Jan 27, 2024 |
This picks up about a week after Six of Crows leaves off and jumps right into the action! Our band of criminals has another desperate mission that keeps them in mortal peril more often than not!

It’s dark & creepy but exciting & fun and of course has true love woven through the whole thing. It really just begs to be a movie or a TV show. I’m really looking forward to seeing what HBO comes up with. ( )
  hmonkeyreads | Jan 25, 2024 |
The second in the Six of Crows really met my expectations and passed them exponentially. The ability to continue through the plot line created by the first book, but expand through some of the loose threads creating more back stories for the characters we already love. I continued to be surprised by the jumps back and forth in the plot, leading me one way and ultimately going another.

I think that the series ended in a way that was fitting for the series. Was I devastated in the best way, going through the emotional turmoil that follows finishing a series. I think that Leigh really plays with the balance of what readers want with what characters need in a way that results in a beautiful yet tragic conclusion that leaves readers wanting more but content enough to put the world away ready to be reread on a later date. ( )
  clougreen | Jan 23, 2024 |
For a book filled with trauma, violence, and pain, this is somehow a very fun and thrilling read. I tip my hat to Leigh Bardugo. The writing is great, the characters are memorable, the plot is riveting, the setting is superb. Again, I'm amazed at how she can pull off both pathos and levity. Her heroes are all underdogs (extremely talented underdogs) who can be clever and funny even as they're recalling trauma and risking their lives.

This book has not one, not two, but at least three daring plans put into action. That makes the book quite long, but for fans of the characters, it's like not enough. Only two books in the Six of Crows series! What?!

I think Bardugo's book has one of the most diverse casts I've read in YA fantasy. Though it's a fantasy world, identities have real-world analogs. Jesper is Black, Inej read as Romani to me, Kaz is disabled, Wylan is dyslexic and LGBTQ, Kuwei is Asian. Nina and Matthias's relationship plays out a bit like Romeo & Juliet (they've been conditioned to hate each other for who they are). Like X-Men, the main prejudice in the book involves the Grisha because they have special powers. But there are also a lot of poor young people exploited by an unfair system that doesn't protect them.

The major theme of the books is power. The villains aren't pure evil -- mainly they are powerful, greedy, and ruthless. The heroes are also ruthless but they are all teenagers with broken childhoods. No one is going to give them a better life. They have to take it by force.

I'm super excited to watch the TV version of this when it comes to Netflix. ( )
  LibrarianDest | Jan 3, 2024 |
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To Holly and Sarah, who helped me build;
Noa, who made sure the walls stayed standing;
Jo, who kept me standing too.
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Retvenko leaned against the bar and tucked his nose into his dirty shot glass.
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But wasn't that what every girl dreamed? That she'd wake up and find herself a princess? Or blessed with magical powers and a grand destiny? Maybe there were people who lived those lives. Maybe this girl was one of them. But what about the rest of us? What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary. That was how you survived when you weren't chosen, when there was no royal blood in your veins. When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway. (460)
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Kaz Brekker and his crew have just pulled off a heist so daring even they didn't think they'd survive. But instead of divvying up a fat reward, they're right back to fighting for their lives. Double-crossed and badly weakened, the crew is low on resources, allies, and hope. As powerful forces from around the world descend on Ketterdam to root out the secrets of the dangerous drug known as jurda parem, old rivals and new enemies emerge to challenge Kaz's cunning and test the team's fragile loyalties. A war will be waged on the city's dark and twisting streets--a battle for revenge and redemption that will decide the fate of the Grisha world. --

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Crows bent on revenge
devise intricate plan for
sting operation.
(passion4reading)

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