Six of Crows

Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo - 462 pages
"Trickery is not my native tongue, but I may learn to speak it yet."

You know when you read a book and you could talk for hours about all the beautiful writing, life lessons, and perspective on life it gave you? That's wonderful. You know what's also wonderful? When you read a book past three in the morning because you need to read "just one more chapter". When you giggle or gasp out loud in public spaces because you are so engrossed in what you're reading. When you know the book you're reading has flaws, but it's so easy to look past them because you just love living in that world for a little while. When you finish the book and all you can say is "Jarlnwgrboaiebwngerzaowefoi!!!??!"
Six of Crows was the latter for me. I haven't had that much fun reading a book since Golden Son. And even though a part of my brain every once and a while would whisper "But that doesn't make sense" or "Obvious plot device", I'd reply with "SHUT UP WHO CARES LOOK WHAT HAPPENS NEXT"

"A gambler, a convict, a wayward son, a lost Grisha, a Suli girl who had become a killer, a boy from the Barrel who had become something worse. What bound them together? Greed? Desperation? Was it just the knowledge that if one or all of them disappeared tonight, no one would come looking?"

I'm a sucker for a good heist story. I mean, Oceans 11? Come on. A group of lowlifes banding together to pull off the impossible? Yes please. Thieves, assassins, and thugs you come to care for tricking everyone (including you) and making you laugh, gasp, and cry along the way? Gimmie. Six of Crows isn't just a good heist story, it's a great one. Not only do you get non-stop action (and I mean non-stop, this book just keeps punching), you also get interesting backstories. The kind you actually CARE about and don't skim over to get back to the main plot.
Do you want to read a book with action, sass, a little bit of magic, and a whole lot of heart centered on a group of outcasts led by a Demon in gloves breaking into an extremely secure building to steal an impossible target?
Six of Crows is your book.
Meanwhile, I'm going to be over here, adding to the hype. And adding myself to the six of crows crew. (What do you mean you can't use an emotional fan girl??)

Read on,

Jamie