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Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo
4.0

Some of my favourite flashback backstory/characterization scenes. Even more inclusive. It’s much different of a heist and doesn’t have the perfect pacing of the prequel because of the cliffhanger. It has to rebuild the momentum and deal with a few more subplots. The ending is absolutely perfect.

You put both books together and it’s a 5 star read. The only thing that holds this back is the overarching structure between the two books. Absolute banger when read back to back. Obviously less money in publishing a 1000 page book vs two though, of course.