I absolutely adore the Grishaverse. I thought the shadow and bone trilogy was fantastic but this.. this blew me away. It was all written, incredibly smart and funny - all the characters were well developed, and throughout you never know what was about to happen around the corner, or what the plan was - you found out as it happened piece by piece, all while set in a different part of the incredible world that Bardugo created. Instead of armys and royalty its gambling, theives, murder, the criminal underworld and survival. You don't have to have read the shadow and bone trilogy to have read this, and you Don't have to be a fan of the shadow and bone trilogy to completely fall in love with this story!! Can't wait to start "crooked kingdom!"