Do you know what it feels like to go back into a fictional world, and be able to call it home; to feel like you’ve finally found a part of you didn’t even know was missing? Well, that is exactly what Six Of Crows is to me. A return to the world of Alina and Mal and Nikolai and The Fold and The Darkling and everybody else that I had no idea I missed so much…

I’d heard about Leigh Bardugo’s new book, of course, but through all my research (I did that extensively, believe me) there was a lot of mystery surrounding the book, leaving me with little to no idea of what to expect from the storyline of it – except the hope of a great new story and the anticipation of a new trilogy to get into!

With the billions of other books releasing this fall, this wasn’t exactly on the top of my to-buy pile – but now I see how COMPLETELY wrong I was!

If you’re considering this book, let me tell you: it is BRILLIANT, Leigh Bardugo is a genius, and you will be transported in a matter of a few sentences, back to the world of the Shadow and Bone trilogy – except from a completely different point of view.

In Six of Crows, the Ravkan Civil War is over, and the Grisha (yes, the GRISHA!) are still reeling from it, but we see it all not from the royalty’s perspective, but from thieves and low-lives and we see the whole world in a completely different light.

Kaz Brekker is a criminal prodigy. Kaz is calculating, cold and ruthless. He has been offered all the money he could ever hope for, in exchange for a prisoner. Simple, right? The prisoner is a notorious doctor who has created a drug that in the wrong hands, could be deadly.

So this isn’t normal? A drug – Jurda Parem –is designed especially for Grisha, making them unstoppable. It can make Healers convince rooms of people to do exactly as they are told. It can make Heartrenders stop eternal life at whatever distance. If it falls into the wrong hands, the drug can mean the end of Grisha freedom as they know it.

To free the scientist, and ultimately hand him over to the merchant lords of Ketterdam (you know, where Alina and Mal ran off to in the end of Shadow and Bone) Kaz Brekker needs a team, a team as deadly, as cunning and as ruthless, as he is. He needs a team of criminals that have nothing to lose and everything to gain, to break into the most impenetrable fortress known to their world.

If captured, death will be a blessing to them. If they succeed, they earn their freedom – and money of course!

I absolutely LOVED Six of Crows. Reading it was like getting sucked into this whirlpool of emotions and that feeling of falling hopelessly in love with a whole new host of characters, however imaginary they might be – and loving every second of it!

It was a perfect novel, as perfect as young adult gets, with Leigh Bargudo producing her best work to date.

If you’re hesitant, like me, or simply haven’t heard of this book I can only say READ IT! It will blow your mind!

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