“No mourners. No funerals. Among them, it passed for good luck.”

Ketterdam is a bustling hub of trade and crime. A place where you can get anything for the right price and with the right connection. Kaz Brekker is a member of the Crows gang and is offered a chance at a heist, perhaps the greatest one in history. To break into a foreign capital and steal something that could change the fate of the world, if his gang doesn’t kill each other first. A convict with a thirst for revenge, a sharpshooter with a gambling problem, a runaway with a privileged past, a spy known as the wraith, and a heart render whose magic could be the key to their survival. As they cross the ocean and learn more about what they’ve been sent to steal they start to realize this could be bigger than all of them. 

Leigh Bardugo’s Six of Crows is the perfect book for people who love fantasy, adventure, crime, and love. This is one of my favourite of Bardugo’s books as it has a rich plot and several very unique characters. There are both gay and bisexual characters that I feel are represented in a very good way, they are accepted for it and do have love stories (not just side characters that are mentioned and forgotten). I loved being able to read from multiple different points of view, there isn’t one main character so much as six equal characters who each have unique story arcs. Reading about a group of teenage gangsters pulling off an insane crime was so fun to read about as they were really funny and dramatic. This book also mentions some characters from her Shadow and Bone series (I would read that one first) and they make appearances in the second book. There is also some dark stuff in this book such as traumatic back stories involving prostitution, kidnapping, and dead bodies as well as mentions of executions and torture but there isn’t gorey details of most of it just mentions. I would recommend this book to anyone not just fans of fantasy because it is a really amazing and well written book. 

If you enjoy this book try the second in the series, Crooked Kingdom, or Leigh Bardugo’s Rule of Wolves series.