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A review by berrynee
Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo
5.0
“I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.”
I am stunned!
There is no right way to explain the perfection that [b:Crooked Kingdom|22299763|Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)|Leigh Bardugo|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1456172607l/22299763._SY75_.jpg|42090179] is and the feels it left me with. By feels I mean the huge reading slump and the realization that no other book or book series will ever come close to the greatness of this one. It's especially hard to remember being this emotionally attached to the characters of a book and not being able to move on from them. Not being able to stop tears from falling as I read about the hardships that every single one of them had to go through. What made these characters feel almost real is Leigh Bardugo's ability to make them all have those vulnerabilities, problems and traumas that are devastating and somehow relatable at the same time because we all have that one thing that's always holding us back. I'm very pleased that this was acknowledged here.
Whenever someone that I know talked about this book and the Grishaverse in general they usually mentioned how Six of Crows duology was better than Shadow and Bone or that they liked the former more. Honestly, at first, I was a bit sceptical about this 'cause from my experience authors are very consistent in their work and they usually stick to what the readers loved and recycle that. It's even harder when they create something that people already love so much. Are they going to be able to write something better? Are they going to disappoint or deliver? In this case, Leigh definitely delivered and now I am one of those people that will never stop talking about these books to everyone.
To heal from this series I will fortunately have to re-read it and experience the excitement, the joy and the sadness which it contains again and only then will I be able to move on and not be dissappointed by other books because "They're not as good as Six of Crows or Crooked Kingdom".
“No mourners, no funerals. Another way of saying good luck. But it was something more. A dark wink to the fact that there would be no expensive burials for people like them, no marble markers to remember their names, no wreaths of myrtle and rose.”
I am stunned!
There is no right way to explain the perfection that [b:Crooked Kingdom|22299763|Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)|Leigh Bardugo|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1456172607l/22299763._SY75_.jpg|42090179] is and the feels it left me with. By feels I mean the huge reading slump and the realization that no other book or book series will ever come close to the greatness of this one. It's especially hard to remember being this emotionally attached to the characters of a book and not being able to move on from them. Not being able to stop tears from falling as I read about the hardships that every single one of them had to go through. What made these characters feel almost real is Leigh Bardugo's ability to make them all have those vulnerabilities, problems and traumas that are devastating and somehow relatable at the same time because we all have that one thing that's always holding us back. I'm very pleased that this was acknowledged here.
Whenever someone that I know talked about this book and the Grishaverse in general they usually mentioned how Six of Crows duology was better than Shadow and Bone or that they liked the former more. Honestly, at first, I was a bit sceptical about this 'cause from my experience authors are very consistent in their work and they usually stick to what the readers loved and recycle that. It's even harder when they create something that people already love so much. Are they going to be able to write something better? Are they going to disappoint or deliver? In this case, Leigh definitely delivered and now I am one of those people that will never stop talking about these books to everyone.
To heal from this series I will fortunately have to re-read it and experience the excitement, the joy and the sadness which it contains again and only then will I be able to move on and not be dissappointed by other books because "They're not as good as Six of Crows or Crooked Kingdom".
“No mourners, no funerals. Another way of saying good luck. But it was something more. A dark wink to the fact that there would be no expensive burials for people like them, no marble markers to remember their names, no wreaths of myrtle and rose.”