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alexblackreads 's review for:
Six of Crows
by Leigh Bardugo
Eh it was fine. Honestly, this is about how I thought I'd feel about the book. I just find heists in stories to be boring. It was well done enough here that it did hold my interest, but it was still just a heist.
Problems in summation: six main characters is too many and often it seemed like Wylan was an afterthought, having an even number of characters so everyone can be coupled up at the end, the whole bad boy with a dark past and heart of gold trope, maybe I'm just too old but I do have trouble suspending disbelief with an elite team is chosen and they're all 17, all the really long flashback memories felt jarring and out of place
Things I liked: Inej's character was so well done and her sections were my absolute favorite, I also appreciated that each character had a detailed story and didn't just boil down to their one thing which would have been an easy trap to fall into, the writing style flowed easy and after the first hundred pages it was a pretty quick read
I will also say I struggled a bit with the world. At a point I just gave up on trying to understand anything other than the Scandinavian coded country hated the Grisha and the plant made magic 100x, although I am willing to accept fault for this one because I didn't read the Grisha trilogy first.
Problems in summation: six main characters is too many and often it seemed like Wylan was an afterthought, having an even number of characters so everyone can be coupled up at the end, the whole bad boy with a dark past and heart of gold trope, maybe I'm just too old but I do have trouble suspending disbelief with an elite team is chosen and they're all 17, all the really long flashback memories felt jarring and out of place
Things I liked: Inej's character was so well done and her sections were my absolute favorite, I also appreciated that each character had a detailed story and didn't just boil down to their one thing which would have been an easy trap to fall into, the writing style flowed easy and after the first hundred pages it was a pretty quick read
I will also say I struggled a bit with the world. At a point I just gave up on trying to understand anything other than the Scandinavian coded country hated the Grisha and the plant made magic 100x, although I am willing to accept fault for this one because I didn't read the Grisha trilogy first.