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Crooked Kingdom: the highly anticipated sequel to Leigh Bardugo's thrilling #1 New York Times-bestselling Six of Crows.
Kaz Brekker and his crew have just pulled off a heist so daring even they didn't think they'd survive. But instead of divvying up a fat reward, they're right back to fighting for their lives. Double-crossed and badly weakened, the crew is low on resources, allies, and hope. As powerful forces from around the world descend on Ketterdam to root out the secrets of the dangerous drug known as jurda parem, old rivals and new enemies emerge to challenge Kaz's cunning and test the team's fragile loyalties. A war will be waged on the city's dark and twisting streets―a battle for revenge and redemption that will decide the fate of the Grisha world.
- Sales Rank: #1353 in Books
- Published on: 2016-09-27
- Released on: 2016-09-27
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.57" h x 43.31" w x 6.53" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 560 pages
From School Library Journal
Gr 7 Up—Teens will be excited to return to Bardugo's marvelous world, first visited in her "Grisha Trilogy" and in this duology's previous Six of Crows. They will be treated to a visit from old friends—the graceful (and deadly) Inej; Nina, the Grisha Heartrender; Wylan, the discarded, illiterate merchant's son; and the mysterious and vengeful Kaz. Characters from the original trilogy (most notably Stormhund, prince-turned-privateer) also make an entrance in the heart of the slums of Ketterdam. Plots to take control of the city's underworld abound as Kaz rallies his allies and takes on the might of the rapacious merchant class and Pekka Rollins, King of the Barrel and ruler of the dregs of the city. Following the death of his brother, the antihero has surrounded himself with the castoffs of Ketterdam, all of them very young, defective in some way, and abandoned. Together they will either rule the city victoriously or fail magnificently. While it isn't absolutely necessary to have read the other titles in Bardugo's series, readers will be better served by this continuation if they are already familiar with the complex world and characters. This fast-paced dive into the Barrel, where fortunes are made and lost and life itself hangs in the balance, will keep readers enthralled long past bedtime. VERDICT A must-purchase for all YA collections.—Jane Henriksen Baird, Anchorage Public Library, AK
Review
Praise for Crooked Kingdom:
"A delicious blend of masterfully executed elements... Bardugo outdoes herself in this exhilarating follow-up, and series fans will have their eyes glued to every page.”―Booklist, starred review.
"Un-put-down-able excitement from beginning to end"―Kirkus Reviews, starred review.
"Bardugo’s ingenious plotting that characterized Crows is again on full display, and the backstories, loyalties, flaws, and romantic alliances….are richly developed.”―The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (BCCB) starred review
Praise for Six of Crows:
"This has all the right elements to keep readers enthralled: a cunning leader with a plan for every occasion, nigh-impossible odds, an entertainingly combative team of skilled misfits, a twisty plot, and a nerve-wracking cliffhanger."―Publishers Weekly, starred review
"Cracking page-turner with a multi ethnic band of misfits with differing sexual orientations who satisfyingly, believably jell into a family."―Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"Set in a world that will be familiar to fans of the author, this book can be fully enjoyed without having read any previous title. . . . This is an easy choice for teens who enjoyed The Grisha Trilogy, Diviners, or any of the Shadowhunter books."―VOYA, starred review
"The whirlwind pace, along with some witty banter, burgeoning romance, and high-stakes action, makes this series opener a surefire crowd-pleaser."―Booklist
About the Author
Leigh Bardugo is the #1 New York Times bestselling and USA Today bestselling author of Six of Crows and the Grisha Trilogy (Shadow and Bone, Siege and Storm, and Ruin and Rising). She was born in Jerusalem, grew up in Los Angeles, graduated from Yale University, and has worked in advertising, journalism, and most recently, makeup and special effects. These days, she lives and writes in Hollywood where she can occasionally be heard singing with her band.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
...no funerals...
By amy
They say no mourners, but I'm mourning. I'm mourning that this duology is over. I adored the first book, but the with the addition of the second, the two paired go up in my list of ABSOLUTE PERFECT BOOKS EVAR (which, Ima be honest with you, is kind of hard to get into. The Raven Boys is in there. Harry Potter is in there. You know what's not? The Hunger Games trilogy or even the author's first set of work, the Grisha Trilogy. SCANDALOUS)
This was so delicious. It was. Fulfilling, never disappointing, it whetted my appetite for a last job/heist story and satisfied with the level of a Shawshank Redemption-style smack down. It gave me spine-shiveringly-fingers-grazing-slightly-hungrily romantic moments, sweet first love moments, hungry lip-devouring moments. It gave me moments where I wanted to fist pump the hell out of every character, and then clutch them to my chest.and make soothing crooning moments.I read the entire thing in 6 hours. Then I re-read the ending. Multiple times. Tears and shivers and laughing and crying all at the same time. Every time.
I CANNOT ENUNCIATE ENOUGH MY APPRECIATION FOR THIS BOOK. I literally gasped at the presentation of one character who I didn't see coming (literally or figuratively) but was so delighted at the brilliance of the author's move. Everything fit. A perfect puzzle of a story that comes to the most resounding satisfying snap at the ending. I AM NOT KIDDING. BUY THIS BOOK. Actually, buy Six of Crows first, devour that (if you have't) and then BUY THIS BOOK. And if you're like me, voraciously devour it. Then as soon as you hit the ending, immediately go back and start re-reading, because you know you've missed details the first time around because the pacing of the story wouldn't allow you to slow down and appreciate the nuances. That's what 2nd readings are for. And 3rd. AND CAN I GET A HALLELUJAH FOR NO LOVE TRIANGLES?!!!?!!?! (THAT didn't count. IT doesn't count. I'm not counting IT.)
Thank you Leigh Bardugo, for this duology. Thank you for adding to my miserly BEST READS EVAR pile. Thank you for Kaz, Inej, Jesper, Wylan, Nina, Matthias, Sprecht, Rotty and every other brilliant character you've made so readable and loveable/hateable.
Although, could someone please help me out? Most of the lands are pretty obviously references to real life places. Can I get an assist on Novyi Zem? I know I should be able to figure it out - I feel like it staring at me RIGHT IN THE FACE, not mad, just....disappointed.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Underwhelming. Uneven pacing and little character growth.
By Megan - Reading Books Like a Boss
Crooked Kingdom was the book I was most looking forward to reading this year. The depth and edge-of-your-seat suspense that Leigh Bardugo delivered in Six of Crows was nearly absent in Crooked Kingdom. Uneven pacing and lack of character growth was Crooked Kingdom's downfall.
Kaz and the dearly beloved gang of misfits are back in Crooked Kingdom minus one of their own. After they band together to claim back their missing member, they scheme to take down the Barrel's crooked businessmen, Jan Van Eck and Pekka Rollins. But outsmarting these ruthless men isn't easy when their plans are thwarted at every turn.
Until this book, all of Leigh Bardugo's novel had exquisitely paced and beautifully crafted story arcs with fully developed and fully realized characters. I really wanted to love this book as much as I have loved her previous novels, but I couldn't because it was just not good. I have so many things I want to say to explain my feelings, I don't even know where to start. I'm going to point out some of the bigger problems I have.
Uneven pacing and lack of plot cohesiveness
Crooked Kingdom took a long time to get going. While it was fun to be back in the lives of a cast of characters I've grown immensely fond of, it took more than a third of the book to pass before things got interesting. Even as I read further in the book, there was very little plot action that I could grasp on to and get excited about.
In the last book, the focus was on breaking into an impenetrable prison, a plot point that lends itself to some pretty exciting stuff. There was a clear path and goal in the distance for the reader to see that was suspenseful and there was a sense that it was building to something great.
If Crooked Kingdom were a pair of pants, they would be made of several patches of mismatched pieced-together fabric. There was no tangible objective in mind. In fact, the plot here felt very piecemeal and patched together. As soon as the gang would achieve one goal, they were onto something else. It felt very unnatural and had a feel of "and then we're doing this and then we're doing this and then we're doing this" rather than "we are doing this to achieve this final goal" (which was what Six of Crows felt like). The whole book felt very unfocused and scattered: Is messing with the sugar the goal? The auction? The ships coming to and from the port? The moth-people Shu?
Transitions were jarring
The chapter transitions and shifts in point of view in Six of Crows flowed beautifully and were virtually seamless. They felt natural and were conducive to the story's thrilling nature. The same cannot be said of the transitions in Crooked Kingdom. With each chapter change it was like the plot would take one step forward and two steps back. These shifts often would go back in time and then lead the reader back to where the previous chapter left off. This only served to stall the plot more and felt incredibly jarring.
The multiple plot conveniences were really annoying.
Kaz's modus operandi is never revealing his whole plan to anyone, feeding details to his gang on a need-to-know basis. He was constantly one step ahead of his gang and his enemies. But it got really old really fast when he was winning and pulling one over on everyone every single time. It was especially irritating when these grandiose plans seemed to be written in after the fact, serving merely as plot conveniences. It just amounted to lazy storytelling. Others may have found these revelations to be wonderful "plot twists," but it only made me more frustrated with the direction of the story.
Kaz's character shows little vulnerability or weakness
Kaz's character is one of the highlights of this duology. Bardugo crafted his character with so much depth and room for change and growth. Outside of his vulnerability around Inej, he was invincible and it didn't make him seem like a real person.
I don't know how many of you watch The Walking Dead, but I was hoping for a Rick/Negan moment where Kaz is just stripped bare of his arrogance and sure-footedness. I thought for sure there would be a scene in this book where one of Kaz's plans and cons would go terribly wrong, where he didn't have a plan. But that never happened, which was disappointing.
Lack of tension and character development
In Six of Crows, Bardugo had so much to build on and work with, like introducing the reader to the characters, developing them and crafting the complicated relationships. There was so much wonderful tension that moved the plot forward with great characters, outside of the prison break-in plotline. There was very little development of these characters in Crooked Kingdom, aside from what was already accomplished in the previous book.
The tension between Nina and Matthias was gone because they were together now, so some new tension needed to be manufactured. Cue Nina's drug addict storyline. Her struggles with jurda parem only appeared when it was convenient and she was magically okay in other moments. To drum up some more tension between these two, the author really played up Matthias's rigid adherence to following the rules of his country, but it felt forced.
Focus on uninteresting characters
Personally, out of all the characters in Six of Crows, Jesper and Wylan were my least favorite. I didn't dislike them, but I didn't feel like they were as compelling. Outside of what we already knew, I wasn't interested in spending much time with them outside of what was necessary to move the plot forward in Crooked Kingdom.
But what we got in this book was a lot of page time with both of them. The budding attraction between Jesper and Wylan was something Bardugo took and ran with in this book. But I felt nothing between them. Their chapters were so long and frequent that I just became bored.
The one-liners: Can you not?
I love good banter and humor. That's one of the things I loved about Sturmhond in Siege and Storm : he was the comedic relief in the midst of danger and possible death. But the constant quipping and zingers spewing from Kaz and Jesper quickly became monotonous and not funny.
If Jesper making Wylan blush were a drinking game, I'd be blacked-out drunk by 45%. Also, there was a scene towards the end of the book that was meant to be incredibly emotional, yet Nina is making jokes? No, just no.
The way things ended...
I really didn't like the way the book ended. This is the final book in the duology and the author chose to end it through the eyes of a character the reader doesn't like. I wish we could have gotten more finality with one of our beloved Dregs but Pekka Rollins? No, thank you.
Final thoughts
There were some enjoyable moments peppered throughout the book. The bathroom scene with Kaz is arguably the best scene in the whole book, heavy with feeling and so many unspoken words. I also really liked the Inej chapter in the beginning where she ponders her value to Kaz. But these few moments weren't enough to get me to where I could say, "I liked this book."
Many readers may have enjoyed the cameos from characters from the Grisha trilogy. But really, they served little purpose to the overall story and felt like the author was just trying to win over readers' favor.
I've been very vocal about my genuine enthusiasm over this release. I kept my expectations in check. But considering I've read and loved her four previous novels, I truly thought I would enjoy this book. Crooked Kingdom wasn't the worst book ever; it just wasn't good. I hold Leigh Bardugo to a very high standard, as I've seen what she's capable of. She's an immensely gifted writer and storyteller. Crooked Kingdom was a far cry from what it could have been, and I'm so sad!
Audiobook Comments:
I switched back and forth between the book and the audiobook. I listened to the audiobook for probably the last third. Since I found this book to be extremely slow, the narrators' performances made me feel a little more interested in the book. Elizabeth Evans's narration of Nina's chapters was exceptional, my favorite of all the narrators. I didn't like the narrator for Wylan at all, and his voice for Kaz was almost laughable.
* I purchased the audiobook and hardcover book myself. I also borrowed the e-book from my local library.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
"A Battle for Revenge and Redemption"
By Tara Michelle
First of all, if you’re reading this review and you haven’t read Six of Crows, go read that immediately.
Opening this book and starting to read was like seeing a friend you haven’t seen in a while. I did a reread of Six of Crows a few weeks ago and I remembered just how much I loved every single one of the characters. The character development in this book was absolutely phenomenal. The characters questioned what they thought they knew about themselves and their limitations and each of them grew an enormous amount this book. Some of the moments were absolutely heartbreaking and some made me smile.
Even though this is a fantasy series, there are many parallels between the problems experienced by the characters and real-life. Leigh Bardugo addresses everything from a change in faith, whether in a god or a loved one, to mental illness to physical disabilities. Part of what makes her characters so incredible is that, even though they have these fantastical skills, they are ultimately relatable as human beings. It’s incredibly rare that I’m unable to pick a favorite character in a book but after reading Crooked Kingdom, I can’t pick any one character in the crew (except Kuwei, I’m not a huge fan of his) as my favorite. The crew is a family and each character brings something crucial to the group and to the story.
As for the plot itself, just wow. Hold on tight, you’re in for a wild ride. If you enjoyed the heist aspect of Six of Crows, this book is essentially how the team pulled off the ultimate con. I was constantly guessing and in suspense as to what the next move would be. While Six of Crows was more focused on action, this book was more about getting into the mind of your enemy. Seeing everything unfold was like seeing two chess masters face off, albeit with a lot more tension and suspense.
I cannot recommend this book enough. I’m not quite ready to say goodbye to these characters and their world just yet so I’ll be hoping for more novels from Leigh Bardugo in the future. I’ll leave you with a quote from the book that I believe sums up the duology perfectly while demonstrating the difference between this series and the original Grisha trilogy.
“But what about the rest of us? What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary….When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway.”
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