Six of Crows: Book 1 + Crooked Kingdom Six of Crows Book 2 (Set of 2 books)

Everyone should read it once in their lifetime

The box set i recieved is published by henry holt.few things i noticed are a)books do not have the edges coloured (paper edges) and b)they have netflix logo on the cover...which makes me believe these are newly published hardcover edition . The price on the cover is 30 usd => 2300 rs.... I believe it is a steal deal at 400rs..Thanks amazon and cucubloo..

This series is one of those that'll keep you hooked up every page and every line. Has a good mix of action, adventure, suspense, humor, romance. The title of the book is itself something different and quite attractive.The plot and setting: The setting in Ketterdam and its surroundings will absorb you into the story ( the gambling areas, the merchant areas, the Ice court, Hellgate etc ). The backbone of the book is ordinary- a heist. But the way the idea was executed was brilliant!The characters: Beautifully "crafted". Each of the six main characters have their own secret pasts, are intelligent and differ from each other widely. The characterization done for each of them is pretty good.The dialouges: The dialouges are well written, convey what the speaker wants to express and the short italic quotes are new and interesting.All I want to say is, do not miss this wonderful series. It started off with something and ended up differently. WORTH READING...

The hardcover edition is so good i haven't started reading it but the feeling of holding it and the way it looks is so satisfying. And i got it for a great price so i am really happy with it.

The story was nice but the condition was really bad and the first books first page had finger prints and there were torn pages in both book the second book pages were torn as well and the spine was slightly damaged

10/10 would recommend the books but these are not the original copies . The print of the map of the first book (six of crows) is very unclear . It's better in the second book (crooked kingdom) . The actual text is fine tho . Also they changed the cover of six of crows , and frankly it's a big downgrade from the original

What a great book !!!! The plot twist was amazing. Beautiful packaging. Page quality is very good. I am highly satisfied with this book. Thanks to Amazon for their awesome collection.

The books are of course great. I'm very happy with the quality. It's been delivered properly, nothing is damaged.

Six of CrowsWow, I did not think I would enjoy this as much as I did, but WOW amazing! Like I don’t even now where to begin.I haven’t read the shadow and bone trilogy and I thought that might be a trouble but it really wasn’t and I’m so happy that Leigh decided to make it possible to read six of crows for themselves!Kaz, damn that man is smart. And so so unpredictable. You never new what he would come up with next and it always made me wonder how I couldn’t have thought of that, just when you thought you had him figured out, nope next page proved you all wrong. And his backstory, it made my heart ache for him. To be so young and have been through that all and then being forced to be the person he was in the book and how his character was perceived, it’s a wonder he’s still sane, well some might argue he’s not😂Inej, WHAT A CHARACTER! this strong wilded girl who never doubts in her faith and never stumble in her loyalty, it’s honorable. She was definitely one of my faves of the crew and her chapters where always my fave.I’m so excited to see what happens in crooked kingdom and I’m trying to predict it but I know it’s of no use since Kaz will just prove everything I thought otherwise!Crooked kingdomHoley guacamole and every power that is above. IT HAPPENED, I CRIED: I have now cried too two books in my entire life, and to both I was SOBBING. The worst part, I knew that the thing that made me sobbed was gonna happen. I knew it even before i started reading six of crows, but... holy... the way it was described and especially the reactions around it, IT MADE ME FREAKING CRY and I cant get over it.Like the romance in this book was very off center and was not a main part of this series, like if you read the six of crows duolugy you read it for the genius writing, the genius story telling, the genius plotting, like it was impossible to foresee what was gonna happen. This book, i had no clue what was gonna happen and it always took me by surprise and when you thought it was all gonna end something new came up and you were left stunned. While reading it you are confused, but you still get it, but you dont get enough to be able to figure anything out. So you get enough information to know that something is happening, a plot is being written, but you dont know enough to actually understand and it was impossible to read between the lines, like that only made my brain hurt, in a good way. it was so amazing.The found family trope in this book, I got so pissed off, but i also so adored it. like there are so many good moments but there also is so many hurtful ones, it was like my heart got broken and then glued together at the same time.I WOULD DEFINITELY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK

6 of Crows ReviewI'll admit that it took me a while to get into this book, 70+ pages. It's not the typical style of book I read. I'm not really into heist stories. I had enjoyed reading "Shadow and Bone," so I figured I'd give this one a try since it's in the same created world and some of the characters were also in the tv show. No spoilers, but once I really got into it, I read it quickly. I typically don't enjoy books where the narrator changes from chapter to chapter and that might have been why it took me longer to get into the story. I think it works here though. There are a ton of slang terms and names of people/places from this world that you have to get used to when you first start reading. It was a bit much at times in the first few chapters. I have the sequel and plan to start reading it.Crooked Kingdom reviewI really enjoyed this book. Unlike the first book in the series, it did not start slow; it picked up where book 1 left off. No spoilers. I thought that the narrators changing chapter to chapter worked better in this book than it did in the first book. It felt more natural and the author put in more backstory that way which I really liked. I didn't see any of the plot twists coming, and the story was action-packed most of the time. It felt less like a heist story than the first one (not my type of story) and more about survival, revenge, and rescues. I think it came off as more natural. I've heard the author plans to write 3rd Six of Crows book. Who knows if it's true or not, but I'd read it.

J'avais beaucoup aimé la trilogie Shadow and Bone, mais pour moi la duologie Six of Cross est la meilleure. L'histoire est passionnante, j'adore les personnages, et même si l'histoire s'inscrit dans l'histoire globale de la saga, ce sont vraiment deux livres à part.

I loved the story, even better than the TV series and I even liked it better than the Shadow and Bone trilogy. I love this Leigh Bardugo's universe and did not want the books to end.The binding is quite good, the book opens almost 180 degrees without having to crease the spine.Also, the shipment was fast and without issues. Books arrived in perfect condition.

WARNING: THIS REVIEW IS SPOILERY!Honestly, what is all this hype about? Because frankly I don’t understand where it comes from. Is it because the Grisha trilogy was good and so must be another series from the same author? I’m confused.I’ll start by saying that no, I didn’t read the Grisha trilogy. This was the first Bardugo book for me. Sadly, I didn’t enjoy it a bit.Story:The book follows the story of this group of six people that - for different reasons - come together and try to penetrate into an impenetrable building, the Ice Court. What this Ice Court is, we’re not quite sure. We learn - after almost 300 pages - that it is a massive palace that hosts druskelle, men who’s job is that of chasing Grishas, because they’re believed to be demons or some things like that. If there are other things this palace is needed for, we don’t know. Nobody cares to explain us something about it. There’s a place called Ice Court and that’s it, we’re just supposed to accept it.My main - HUGE - problem is: Bardugo, would you care explain to me how this damn world you created works? Or am I supposed to read the Grisha trilogy before? Because if that’s so, nobody told me. When you decide to write a new series, completely independent from the other one you wrote before but set in the same world, you must explain everything all over again. You can’t expect people to read the Grisha trilogy before and then move on with Six of Crows! If you don’t want to explain everything again, just make the book part of the original series, so it’s clear I can’t venture in it without reading the previous ones.But since you decided Six of Crows had to be part of a new series, why did you leave everything unexplained? Why - after 500 pages of book - do I not know why Grisha exists? Why, in a world so similar to ours, there are people with extraordinary powers and people with none? And why the only people you talk about are criminals, merchants and druskelle? Aren’t there any other jobs in this fictional city? What the hell is jurda?Another big problem: for the first 300 pages nothing happens. Literally nothing. I spent days reading only about the Barrel, this area in Ketterdam where our criminals live and “work”. That’s what 3/5 of the book is about. I mean, I’m glad I’m not the type to DNF books, because if I was I wouldn’t have made it to the point where finally things starts to develop.This book is full of informations thrown at the reader without a proper explanation, just like the writer thought we were just supposed to accept everything and move one without questioning anything.“Should I dwell on what Grishas are and where they come from? Uhm...nope, I’m just gonna write the word “Grisha” and they’re gonna work with that” clearly something Bardugo thought while writing this book.Characters:Before diving into every single one, I wanted to mention how much I hated the different POV (point of views). I get that the writer probably wanted to let us know everyone on a deeper lever, but I think she didn’t manage to achieve this goal. Given that - as I already said - the first 300 pages are full of nothing, the changes between characters are just annoying and pointless. Instead of making me emphasize more with the characters, this actually made me feel them very distant and plain.Kaz: he’s one of the main characters. Got to Ketterdam with his brother after their parents died, they do a bad investment with the wrong man and manage to lose every money they’ve made selling the family farm. After that his brother gets sick and dies because they don’t have money to pay a medik. Kaz has to swim using his brother’s body as a lifebelt to save his own life. From that moment on he won’t touch anyone without gloves ever again and he will do anything to drown the man who cheated his brother. Am I supposed to believe that this incredible criminal known as Dirtyhands, who always manages to get the most difficult jobs done, who knows more tricks than the Devil, is a 17 years old? I mean, I’m not asking for a 50 years old character, but he could at least have been in his late twenties to be realistic. Honestly I read the books imagining him older and I still believe every character is actually older than the age the writer gave them. Apart from that, I actually pretty enjoy him and his story. Pity that we get to know it almost at the end of the book, making him unpleasant and quite boring for most of the story.Inej: I already forgot why she arrives in Ketterdam. She is one of the girls that work at The Managerie - even though I didn’t quite understand if she had to prostitute herself or not - but Kaz convince his boss to buy her indenture and she becomes a member of the Dregs. Maybe the only character I truly felt a (little) connection with. I think that’s because she’s the only one who’s story is being told from the beginning, making the chapters from her POV more interesting than the others. I also ship her with Kaz a lot. Is it realistic that she’s 16 years old? Of course not, she’s at least 20.Jesper: he’s a Grisha fabrikator, but we discover this only at the very end of the book. Why does he hide this isn’t very well explained. The rest of the time he’s a compulsive gambler with lots of debts and a love for guns. A funny one, but did he make a difference for me? Not quite. The chapters from his POV were boring most of the time, they became a little more interesting when Wylan came into the picture. I like the idea of a romantic something between them and I hope it’s gonna be developed better in the next book of the series. I would have preferred to read fromWylan POV though.Nina: she’s a Grisha heartrender who works at the White Rose. I liked her, didn’t love her. Again, I didn’t find anything truly special in her, but she wasn’t that bad. I do enjoy her complicated relationship with Matthias.Matthias: it could’ve been interesting to see how a druskelle, a witch hunter basically, grown around people who teached him how Grishas are monsters that need to be killed, changed his mind because of one specific Grisha. Which is what Bardugo tried to do, but there was something missing in my opinion and since the beginning it was too obvious he and Nina loved each other, too obvious that he already wasn’t so sure about what he had been thought. I wish his psychology was a bit more complex.Wyland: he’s the son of Jan Van Eck. He joins the team because of his knowledge in demolitions and his use as a hostage in negotiating the reward. I don’t have much to say about him, given the fact that - for some reason - there wasn’t any chapter from his POV, even though he was part of the group of protagonists. He seems like a nice guy, with morals and a personality that could develop and become very enjoyable and interesting. As I already said, I would’ve loved to read from his POV rather than Jesper’s one.I give it two stars, because the writing style was good and I quite enjoyed the last 200 pages. I do really hope Crooked Kingdom won’t be a pain as this one was.