Series: Six of
Crows (bk. 1)
Genera(s): High
Fantasy
Subjects: criminals,
gangs, magic, abilities, drugs, rescues
Setting: Ketterdam,
Kerch and Fjerda
POV/Tense: 3rd
person POV, past tense: Kaz, Inej, Jesper, Nina, and Matthias
Age/Grade
Level: Teen
Length: 462 pgs.
HC/PB:
Hardcover
List Price: $18.99
Publisher: Macmillan:
Henry Holt
Summary/
product description:
“Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for
the right price—and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker.
Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his
wildest dreams. But he can't pull it off alone...
A
convict with a thirst for revenge.
A
sharpshooter who can't walk away from a wager.
A
runaway with a privileged past.
A
spy known as the Wraith.
A
Heartrender using her magic to survive the slums.
A
thief with a gift for unlikely escapes.
Kaz's
crew are the only ones who might stand between the world and destruction—if
they don't kill each other first.”
My Review: This
book came out last year and I finally got around to reading it because the sequel
just came out. It took me about two weeks to read this book because I was so
busy with school, and then my bird died, which made it hard to read. So now I’m
finally done with this book. Even though it took so long, I still enjoyed it.
It only took me 3.5 hours to read the last 120 pages.
This book was
like a fantasy version of Suicide Squad, and I kind of want to compare Inej to
Katana and Nine to Harley Quinn and Jesper to Deadshoot, and I’m not sure who
the others seem like. It’s about a group of misfits, criminals from various
places who came together is a city called Ketterdam, which is basically like
Amsterdam. It has cannels and different districts and legal prostitution and
lots of gambling dens. It has a late 1800s feel. It’s not even a decade after
the event of the Grisha Trilogy and I feel like there’s lot of industrial
advancement that happened.
So the book has
six main characters, but it only rotates between five point of views: Kaz,
Inej, Jesper, Nina, and Matthias. Wylan doesn’t get his own chapters. Kaz is a
theif who uses slight of hand, he’s the leader and he also limps because his
leg never healed quite right. Nina is a Heartrender Grisha originally from
Ravka and she’s busty and bold and has a talent for languages. Inej, a Suli
girl, is also known as the Wraith. She moves very silently and collects secrets
for Kaz by spying on wealthy people. She used to be an acrobat. Jesper is a
Zemeni sharpshooter who has a bad gambling habit. Matthias is a Fjerdian witch
hunter who ended up in prison. Wylan is the son of a mercher, and he’s got a
lot of talents.
These character
are given a task that will earn themselves 30 million kruge (dollars)if
completed. They must rescue the scientist who developed a drug called jurda
parum from the Fjerdians. The drug make’s Grisha powers powerful beyond
imagination and it’s also highly addictive and eventually fatal. The take a
boat to the Ice Court in Dierholm and plan to enter and prisoner, hoping to
find the scientist in a cell, but like all plans, there are quite a few bumps
along the way and tons of twist and turn you won’t see coming. The book also
features many flash-backs that give us more backstory on the characters.
I recommend
this book to fans of fantasy who want something a little different and unique,
also fans of steampunk, because this is kind of like steampunk in a way. And
the Curseworkers series by Holly Black, another book about magical criminals.
Cover Art
Review: I like the illustration of the crow and towers.
