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Six of Crows
by Leigh Bardugo
3.5
It took me until somewhere between page 200 and 250 to get interested. Before that it was slow, and I found myself putting away the book after every chapter to do something else. The only reason I kept reading, is because I want to have read the books before watching the Shadow and Bone show, since some of the Six of Crows characters will appear.
A lot of people told me this would be way better than Shadow and Bone, but to be honest, I don't agree. I also don't really get the hype about Kaz. I don't dislike him, but I don't love him either.
However, I really liked (and could possibly love after reading the second book) Jesper, Wylan, Inez and Nina. After those first 200/250 pages, I really enjoyed reading about them.
A thing I find unrealistic (yeah, yeah, it's fantasy, it's not supposed to be realistic, but you get what I mean) is the age of the characters. I've seen 2 other people also point this out. The characters read as if they are in their twenties or thirties, they don't read like 16, 17 and 18 years olds. But that happens a lot in YA books. It didn't bother me or anything, because I just imagined them as older anyways.
What I really enjoyed was the world building. The author was able to create multiple countries, all with different cultures, languages, history. Different kind of people from those countries. Not a lot of fantasy books have that, so it was amazing to read.
Sometimes the switch between present time and past time gets confusing. From one sentence to another, it's suddenly a scene of a year back, and it's not in a seperate paragraph, but in the same, so if you're not 100% paying attention (which I found myself not always able to do with this books) then you'd have to reread the whole page for it to make sense.
These flashback scenes also started happening in the middle of the book, as if the author suddenly decided that they wanted to include it. It's not there in the first part of the book.
Overall I did end up enjoying the book. And as soon as I'm able to, I'll definitely pick up the sequel. I'm even more excited for the show!
It took me until somewhere between page 200 and 250 to get interested. Before that it was slow, and I found myself putting away the book after every chapter to do something else. The only reason I kept reading, is because I want to have read the books before watching the Shadow and Bone show, since some of the Six of Crows characters will appear.
A lot of people told me this would be way better than Shadow and Bone, but to be honest, I don't agree. I also don't really get the hype about Kaz. I don't dislike him, but I don't love him either.
However, I really liked (and could possibly love after reading the second book) Jesper, Wylan, Inez and Nina. After those first 200/250 pages, I really enjoyed reading about them.
A thing I find unrealistic (yeah, yeah, it's fantasy, it's not supposed to be realistic, but you get what I mean) is the age of the characters. I've seen 2 other people also point this out. The characters read as if they are in their twenties or thirties, they don't read like 16, 17 and 18 years olds. But that happens a lot in YA books. It didn't bother me or anything, because I just imagined them as older anyways.
What I really enjoyed was the world building. The author was able to create multiple countries, all with different cultures, languages, history. Different kind of people from those countries. Not a lot of fantasy books have that, so it was amazing to read.
Sometimes the switch between present time and past time gets confusing. From one sentence to another, it's suddenly a scene of a year back, and it's not in a seperate paragraph, but in the same, so if you're not 100% paying attention (which I found myself not always able to do with this books) then you'd have to reread the whole page for it to make sense.
These flashback scenes also started happening in the middle of the book, as if the author suddenly decided that they wanted to include it. It's not there in the first part of the book.
Overall I did end up enjoying the book. And as soon as I'm able to, I'll definitely pick up the sequel. I'm even more excited for the show!