This book completely and utterly destroyed me! I am still shook and its been three days since I finished it. Leigh Bardugo has made me her No:1 fangirl with this book and this duology.
This books picks up right where Six of Crows ended. The crew is making plans and setting everything in motion to get back Inej back and wreak havoc on Van Eck who dared to cross them. Everything seems to be going according to plan but then suddenly out of nowhere, things start falling apart.
“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.”
SoC started out a little slow because I had to get used to the world and all the different characters. Crooked Kingdom on the other hand is jam packed with action from the very first page. It was a crazy roller coaster ride of twists and turns, highs and lows and crossings and double crossings. It was dark, complex, multilayered and hands down one of the best reads of 2018
Told in multiple POVs, each and every character leaves an unforgettable mark on you. If SoC was an introduction, Crooked Kingdom guves you an indepth character study of all the members in the gang. Right along with the action, seamlessly incorporated into each page, is the past and future, dreams and fears, strength and weakness of each member of the gang. I didn’t think I could fall any more in love with the characters of JKaz, Inej, Nina , Mathias, Jesper and Wylan but I was proved wrong again.
It was a beast of a book with more than 500 pages in the hardcover but I still finished it in under a day. I literally couldn’t stop turning the pages. I knew there would be twists upon teists but even then I could never predict what was going to happen next. It kept me on the edge of my seat throughout and not even for a second, was I bored. The ending completely destroyed me. I was not expecting it and it gave me such a whiplash that I am still not completely over my shock.
“Crows remember human faces. They remember the people who feed them, who are kind to them. And the people who wrong them too. They don’t forget. They tell each other who to look after and who to watch out for.”
So people, if you havent read this one yet, it would be like missing the ride of your life. Seriously, get this book now and start reading!!!
Rating : not even a 1000 stars would do this book justice.
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Doodlebug
Page missing from my copy of the collector's edition.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 October 2019Verified Purchase
Page missing from my copy of the collector's edition.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 October 2019
I love the book, but page 431 is missing; they've printed an extra 'part 6' title page where it should be - literally mid-sentence. Returning for a replacement, and if the next copy is okay I'll come back and up it to five stars, but I feel like I can't give a collector's edition five stars if it's faulty (and I'm wondering how many people haven't spotted the fault because they've already read the non-collector's editions and bought this as an extra).Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 October 2019
Other than that the edition is beautiful.
EDIT: Yeah, the second copy sent had the same misprint. Be sure to check your copy.
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 December 2019Verified Purchase
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 December 2019
After my reread of Six of Crows I just had to read Crooked Kingdom and even though I knew what happens I was still not ready for that ending. This duology is one of my all time favourite books!Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 December 2019
It’s no secret that I adore everything that Leigh Bardugo writes and of course this book did not disappoint. This was a reread via audiobook and I highly recommend listening as it’s a full cast and amazing!
This book starts where Six of Crows ends and it’s set entirely in Ketterdam unlike Six of Crows where they travel to Fjerda and back. So this story is a little different but no less enthralling and action packed. As usual the characters are absolutely wonderful and I love seeing their character development. I also loved seeing cameos by some of my favourite characters from the Grisha trilogy!
Once again I was completely enthralled by the story and the characters. The banter between the characters is my favourite thing ever! They always seem so much older because of what they’ve been through but then they squabble and fight and sass each other just like your regular teen and it would just remind you how young they really are.
The development of my ships was another thing I absolutely loved! The angst and the slow burn between them and how each couple is so different from the others and each go through their own journey and together as a couple and then on another growth in their gang together. Leigh had their character developments in all different areas of their life and did it so well.
My favourite ship is of course Kaz and Inej. The slow burn between them and their own hardships and barriers they’ve built that makes it hard for them to even admit their feelings for each other. It just killed me! But I really love how Leigh handles Kaz’s PTSD. He cannot touch people and I loved that he wasn’t “magically cured” because he wanted to be with Inej. He struggled with it, it prevented him from being able to be close to Inej and it felt so much more real.
This story is quite different from Six of Crows as it isn’t just one quest that they go on throughout the book. They have to make multiple plans and deal with lots of different groups of people. It was absolutely amazing to see how their plans came together. This book will take you on a wild ride!
The ending of this book is so satisfying in so many ways but will also break your heart and drag it through the mud and run it over with a truck. I first read this book in 2016 and I have never gotten over a particular thing that happens at the end. They had so much potential and it was ripped away from them. BRB going to go cry.
Anyways I highly recommend you go read this duology and all the Grishaverse books because they are amazing! I absolutely love all the grisha books but this duology will forever be my favourite!
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nocaptainreuben
So good it resets my bar for all books from this point on
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 April 2020Verified Purchase
Hayley
No mourners, No Funerals
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 June 2020Verified Purchase
No mourners, No Funerals
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 June 2020
No mournersReviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 June 2020
No funerals
After finishing Crooked Kingdom this morning I realised 2 things:
1. My own headcanon is the only thing that's keeping me going today.
2. I wish I read this sooner - so I would have recovered by now!
After finishing Six of Crows a few weeks back - my plan was to jump right in to Crooked Kingdom. I knew I would love it, so I held off reading it in a bid to savour it.
It certainly lived up to my expectations (though SoC is my fave).
There were times when I thought the plot was too slow and nothing was really happening. But - overall I think that help build the tension for the climax at the end. I certainly wished I could flip back a few pages and stay in the safety of the previous chapters, before Leigh Bardugo ripped my heart out and squeezed every last bit of hope out of it.
I laughed out loud at Jesper's and Nina's banter with the rest of the gang. It was needed in an other wise fairly bleak to and fro between everyone.
When you're fed crumbs of hope on one page and then given a slap in the face back to reality on another - my emotions were frayed for the second half of this book.
As most of you know - I love a good romance. And, although I couldn't say that the main 'romance' in this is even that - the bitter sweet affection that could be something more in time is the only hope I have. I'm filling in the gaps myself.
Through all the scheming, distrust and harsh reality of life in the barrel - whether Kaz would ever admit it or not - he is the reason that all of them came together and he was used as a buffer as they all bonded. He's the reason for their friendships/relationships and I bet that just makes him feel all warm and fuzzy lol.
I truly hope that one day we get another story from the Barrel because I'm not ready for this to be the ending.
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N. Mummy
Good price, great book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 February 2019Verified Purchase