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A review by mint_renegade
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
adventurous
dark
funny
lighthearted
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
What's a marker of a not-5-star-read?
- i read the last sentence and my first thought was "i guess".
- I'll read the 2nd book eventually but I'm not clamouring to buy it.
- I rolled my eyes at the 'female lead gets used as insurance/gets kidnapped because of course this had to be a series' trope. Just as I was about to declare to the universe that I enjoy reading YA, it suddenly dawned on me that fresh ideas died with twilight and willy shakes. And if I wanted to read YA I would have to innoculate myself against the same dusty corpse/husk called TROPE whose parched veins all YA authors (I've read from exactly 2 YA authors in the last 2 years) insist on sucking on.
- i can see it now, through the mists of time. when I recall it, it will be through google that i source the title, through wiki that i confirm the plot. It will be in the pile of books i want to donate when i eventually downsize my collection. When i recall it, it will only be in relation to the other books it reminded me of. One where dessert djinn are persecuted for their powers, one where canal rats pull a heist only to fall short at the close (Locke Lamora). You see it all reeks of the same colour, even the memorable ones have no names, no depth, just light descriptors.
- for God's sake, no one even kissed.
A 3star isn't bad, it's worse...its middling. Fencing, undecided, both bad and good; where neither camp could defeat the other so they remain locked in endless struggle.
I've leant heavily on the crutch tilted to 2, now let's focus on its counter. I fell in love with the love these characters had for each other. At each moment of tension, my muscles clenched, my kneepits began to sweat and I braced against a punch declaring to the world "I swear to god leigh, if you let Wylan or Jesper die I'll do...something". The banter, the devastating cruelty of choice and chance. The little lines hoisted at the gallows, tethered to hope.
How do I move on from this?
Read another book?
I may flounder on thr decimal, given time; but the reality remains true. as things stand, this isn't surpassing .75
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i cant stop thinking about this book. (10.04)
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Original rating 3/5) An unjus review? 15.04 and I can't stop thinking about Matthias. Why do I feel like he dies at the end?
- i read the last sentence and my first thought was "i guess".
- I'll read the 2nd book eventually but I'm not clamouring to buy it.
- I rolled my eyes at the 'female lead gets used as insurance/gets kidnapped because of course this had to be a series' trope. Just as I was about to declare to the universe that I enjoy reading YA, it suddenly dawned on me that fresh ideas died with twilight and willy shakes. And if I wanted to read YA I would have to innoculate myself against the same dusty corpse/husk called TROPE whose parched veins all YA authors (I've read from exactly 2 YA authors in the last 2 years) insist on sucking on.
- i can see it now, through the mists of time. when I recall it, it will be through google that i source the title, through wiki that i confirm the plot. It will be in the pile of books i want to donate when i eventually downsize my collection. When i recall it, it will only be in relation to the other books it reminded me of. One where dessert djinn are persecuted for their powers, one where canal rats pull a heist only to fall short at the close (Locke Lamora). You see it all reeks of the same colour, even the memorable ones have no names, no depth, just light descriptors.
- for God's sake, no one even kissed.
A 3star isn't bad, it's worse...its middling. Fencing, undecided, both bad and good; where neither camp could defeat the other so they remain locked in endless struggle.
I've leant heavily on the crutch tilted to 2, now let's focus on its counter. I fell in love with the love these characters had for each other. At each moment of tension, my muscles clenched, my kneepits began to sweat and I braced against a punch declaring to the world "I swear to god leigh, if you let Wylan or Jesper die I'll do...something". The banter, the devastating cruelty of choice and chance. The little lines hoisted at the gallows, tethered to hope.
How do I move on from this?
Read another book?
I may flounder on thr decimal, given time; but the reality remains true. as things stand, this isn't surpassing .75
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i cant stop thinking about this book. (10.04)
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Original rating 3/5) An unjus review? 15.04 and I can't stop thinking about Matthias. Why do I feel like he dies at the end?