Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price - and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can't pull it off alone.

A convict with a thirst for revenge. A sharpshooter who can't walk away from a wager. A runaway with a privileged past. A spy known as the Wraith. A Heartrender using her magic to survive the slums. A thief with a gift for unlikely escapes. Six dangerous outcasts. One impossible heist. Kaz's crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction - if they don't kill each other first.

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Listening Length	15 hours and 4 minutes
Author	Leigh Bardugo
Narrator	Jay Snyder, Brandon Rubin, Fred Berman, Lauren Fortgang, Roger Clark, Elizabeth Evans, Tristan Morris
Audible.ca Release Date	September 29 2015
Publisher	Audible Studios
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B0716VKMH4
Best Sellers Rank	#412 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #1 in Thrillers & Suspense for Teens #12 in Action & Adventure Fiction for Teens #14 in Science Fiction & Fantasy for Teens

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Merhebi

Love love love

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 31, 2023

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Really great story. Sucks you in after the second or third chapter!

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SIX OF CROWS

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on September 20, 2018

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Once in a while a book will come in your life and turn your world upside down. Long after it's done, you will think about it while trying to do go on with your life. For me, this book did that. It took me a long time to read it, the fault was mine.
I love reading books where author manages to make me forget that I'm reading a book and Leigh Bardugo did that with her awesome writing. It felt so smooth like I was not reading a book but watching a movie. All six characters were unique and had something to add to the story in their own way.
They're misfits which fit perfectly with each other.
The best thing about this book

1. Character: Each one has something to bring to the story. Each one has a talent that takes the story forward. Even the side characters come with their own flavour. Its written from five points of views. The only book with so many characters pov is game of thrones. And just like GOT, Six of Crows pov are different, each one has their own voice and own way of looking at the same situation. Their emotions are raw and I believe their past experience helps them to bond with each other. They know how it feels to be so alone, so hopeless.

2. Story and the twist: Six of crows will go down as a book that had something new happening in each page. You will always be on alert. Every word will demand your attention, every twist will make your heart race, your jaw to drop. Many times, I stopped reading just to let it sink, all the while wondering how will the author pull her characters out of this situation. And each time she did it so smoothly that it made me realise how well she knows this character especially with the background story. We get to know what each of the characters has been through and why they believe or do certain things in such a way.

3. Place: Ketterdam, oh!!! how I loved and hated the city. It was a perfect place for the city. I could smell the salt in the air and humidity just like the characters.

4. Writing: Just brilliant. The dialogue is the best part of the book. The command on the language is strong. Not every author can pull off great writing but Leigh Bardugo is the queen.

Lastly, if like me you've not read any previous work of Leigh Bardugo than give yourself some time. It will be confusing in the beginning but have patience.

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Virginia Steele

Bardugo's plotting is stellar

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 4, 2021

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I bought the Shadow and Bone trilogy, having hugely enjoyed the Netflix series, but there are differences (no spoilers here for readers or viewers).
Read the trilogy, then dive right in to Six of Crows and see something new. Also get what they incorporated into the Netflix series and like me, wonder why Six of Crows wasn't saved for its own series, because this is EVEN BETTER than Shadow and Bone.
The characters have much more depth, and the story is delivered with different characters as the main actors in each chapter. This makes the reader really connect with each character in a new and very engaging way. Plus it delivers cliff hanger after cliff hanger! I sat there and read for literally hours at a time. I loved the echoes back to the original trilogy and when I got to the end, I immediately started on Crooked Kingdom (because I bought both at the same time, knowing I would do exactly this).
It's great to see how Leigh Bardugo is developing at such a huge pace. My one request though, would be that she not use the word 'wend' so frequently. Sorry Leigh, it gets a bit jarring.

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Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 11, 2022

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This book is fantasy meets good old fashion criminal heist. I could not put it down! What I found I really enjoyed about this book is that even though its based in a world full of magic, most of the cast were just ordinary people, with the exception of a couple hilariously witty grisha, accomplishing a crazy mission using only their wits and talents and cards life has dealt them. I like how each chapter was from a different characters perspective and at the same time it would pick up where the last one left off. And to be honest it was actually quite funny in more ways than one. For me, this is a book is one of those rare reads I wish I reread for the first time all over again. (less)

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Simon R. Brown

Not to be put down

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 29, 2023

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Another book I really enjoyed, a great rampage through interesting scenarios. Glad I got to read it in 2023 nice

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Doreen Soderberg

Well done

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on September 6, 2022

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A great read. Had a hard time putting it down. Would recommend this book to my friends.will buy the next one for sure.

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and I loved seeing a different angle of it as opposed to ...

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 12, 2016

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Holy. Crow(s). Yep, that's all I need to say.

Okay, maybe a little more.

This WORLD. How I missed it; and I loved seeing a different angle of it as opposed to just Ravka from the Grisha Trilogy, even though now all I want to do is reread those books to dive right back in. These CHARACTERS. Misfits, criminals, convicts.. a perfectly imperfect group of deviants. I loved them all. Those SHIPS. I ship them all. Every single one. They were all so different and complex, with something for everyone, and the romance was subtle and strange and beautiful. (Kaz, oh Kaz, you're so effed up) That HEIST. I loved that it all went wrong. Even when you thought they had survived it and come out the other end, nope, it still went wrong some more. And then further wrong. The freaking ENDING. Okay, going into this I definitely thought it was a standalone; it was only halfway through I saw the title of the second book that at least gave me a little bit of a heads-up that things probably weren't going to end perfectly. Or maybe they would and we would just see more of the Crow Crew, it was hard to tell. But then..

Yeah, so, SIX OF CROWS was amazing, but like that's any surprise. If you're reading this review you already know it. I loved the Grisha Trilogy but I have to say that Bardugo has really hit her stride with this one. Her writing seems to have matured (not that it was IMmature before this), possibly even more vivid, and basically I need the next book right now. Please.

Please?

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Favourite Book!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on August 23, 2022

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This is one of the most beautiful stories I've ever read. Definitely my favourite book. The characters are all so different and unique and the story line is so wonderful. I could hardly put the book down♥️

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Jess Gofton

An instant favourite

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 19, 2018

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I can't remember the last time I read a book and fell so head-over-heels in love with an entire group of characters.

People have been recommending Six of Crows to me for a long time now. It's a book I've always meant to get to - who doesn't love a heist story? - but this year I finally sat back, opened it up and was sucked into the seedy underbelly of Leigh Bardugo's fantasy world.

As someone who hasn't read Bardugo's Grisha Trilogy this world was entirely new to me, and I loved it. 2018 feels like the year in which I'm rediscovering my first love, fantasy, after several years of being intimidated by it for a reason I still can't quite put my finger on, and Ketterdam has to be one of my favourite fantastical places now purely because Bardugo brings it to life so vividly.

While Ravka, which we hear of but don't go to in this book, seems to be a Russian-inspired country, there's no doubt in my mind that Ketterdam is a fantastical version of Amsterdam, with its waterways, merchant-run economy, and the entire districts whose cogs are kept whirring by a constant stream of gambling and prostitution. The Barrel, not at all dissimilar from Amsterdam's Red Light District, is ruled by gangs, and one gangster in particular has Ketterdam in his pocket.

Kaz Brekker is one of the most compelling protagonists I have come across in a fantasy novel in a long time. From the blurb I thought he would be very different to the kind of boy he is, but I love how Bardugo has imagined him; she straddles the line between 'criminal prodigy' and 'only a 17 year old' beautifully, creating a character who's had to grow up far too fast and has the dirt of the worst and best of humanity wedged under his fingernails. He's like that first sip of a bitter coffee in human form. It was also so refreshing to read about a protagonist who needs the assistance of a cane to walk and I'd like more protagonists like this please!

What makes Six of Crows really sing is its characters. The setting is brilliant and the plot is wonderful, but the characters are what make this book - dare I say it - perfect. Alongside Kaz we have his right-hand woman Inej Ghafa, who was stolen from her home and her family as a child and sold into human trafficking before she began working for the Dregs. Known as the Wraith, she's an expert at going undetected and is yet another example of Bardugo's wonderfully complex characters. Inej's faith is important to her and her morality is something she struggles with when she has essentially become Kaz's personal assassin, but how else is she supposed to survive in a land that sees her as a commodity that can be sold for profit?

I loved Bardugo's exploration of religion through Inej and through Matthias, another protagonist from Fjerda, the country next to Ravka, who has essentially been raised in a cult of witch hunters whose own religion teaches that Grisha aren't human. Like all six of the protagonists in Six of Crows, Matthias has found himself washed up in Ketterdam by accident, beginning the novel in prison thanks to a Grisha, Nina, who serves as another protagonist. I'll be saying this for all of them, but I loved Nina, too. A child soldier from Ravka, she was forced to work with Matthias, a boy trained to kill her, after the ship they were on sank and they found their way to Ketterdam. Nina is bubbly and vivacious and loves food - who doesn't? - and I particularly loved her friendship with Inej. There's no competition between them, just the utmost affection and respect and when I say I want more female friendships this is what I mean.

Then we have Jesper Fahey, another member of the Dregs who loves gambling and guns a little too much, but another character who is complex and, though flawed, incredibly loyal to Kaz. I adored his sense of humour and his shameless bisexuality. Finally there's Wylan, a boy with a knack for explosives and keeping secrets. He's the kind of character that grows on you as the story progresses, and once you get to know him you can't help but love him.

Six of Crows works because each of its protagonists are fleshed out and such fun to follow separately, but they also have brilliant chemistry as a group, too, which is for the best considering they have to rely on each other to pull off a heist that's believed to be impossible. Kaz makes a deal with one of Ketterdam's merchants to break into the Fjerdan Ice Court - a place that has never been breached - and smuggle out a prisoner associated with a drug that, when used on Grisha, turns them into unstoppable weapons who crave the drug more and more and eventually die as nothing more than husks of their previous selves.

Kaz doesn't take on this mission out of the goodness of his heart to liberate the Grisha who are being mistreated or to bring order back to the world of the merchants, he takes on the mission because each of them will be rewarded with an inordinate amount of money that will pay off their individual debts and set them up comfortably for life. What ensues is a twisty, turny heist story that keeps you guessing at every turn and makes you genuinely worry for the characters' safety. I love that Bardugo doesn't make this story safe. Kaz has a plan and his plan has a plan, but when things go wrong - and they really do - these kids are forced to improvise if they're going to live to claim their reward.

It's been a few months now since I finished this book and I'm still thinking about it. The plotting and character development is exquisite. I fell for this book and these characters and this world so hard, and it's safe to say that this duology is now one of my all-time favourite series and this book has definitely earned a spot on my favourite books of all-time list. It was such fun to read, and it reignited not only my love for fantasy but also my love for YA done well. I escaped into a different world where all the threats and the tears and the love and the smiles felt real, and I will be gushing about it for a long time. And I'm not sorry.

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Oddsocks

Buy a different book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 24, 2019

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Would you go to the cinema and leave 30minutes before the end of the film? Are you the type of person who watches a TV series and stops before the last episode? You would? Then this is the book for you.

What happened to the rest of the book? Really disappointed that this finished with such a cliff hanger.

I hate it when books are released and the story finishes half way through. There is no real end to speak of it just stops abruptly.

So many questions are left unanswered - I shall not be buying the next book. Disgusted that I paid over £10 for this book - its going straight in the bin.

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Rose Quartz Reads

One Heck of a Fun Book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 20, 2017

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Okay, okay, I admit it. I was wrong. This is one heck of a fun book.

I was so unengaged when I first tried to read Six of Crows back in March. I couldn't put my finger on it - it just wasn't clicking for me, and I stopped at around 25%. But four months down the line and it was like I was reading it with completely new story.

There's something about the concept that makes this book so consuming. A world of magic and underlying disorder, six criminals and a hiest. It's hard not to get sucked in.

I adore stories with an ensamble of characters and the fact that they are a band of misfits makes it all the better. We've got:
- Kaz, a young criminal mastermind who runs the streets
- Inej, a brilliant spy who can vanish in the blink of an eye
- Nina, a confident Grisha with the power to kill with a look
- Matthias, a witch hunter who is presumed dead
- Jesper, a gambling gunslinger who loves the rush of a fight
- and Wylan, a runaway rich kid with a gift for mechanics

Together they are the Crow Club, and they take on an suicide mission for wealth beyond their wildest dreams. How awesome is that?!

The characters are awesome, but there are a lot of them. Each of them have their own backstory which I think took a lot of time out of the book from the present day plot, and away from there being any solid protagonist. I would have preferred a fully omniscient 3rd person narrator rather than abrupt changes in 3rd person perspectives, which would've made reading more like shifting from one character's mind to another, which would've made connecting the puzzle pieces of the characters and their motives a lot more fun than simply being told.

Despite Six of Crows being a spin off of The Grisha series, reading them isn't necessary to fully enjoy this book. The worldbuilding and development had all the flare of a standalone story, and it was so good to see it from the eyes of such a diverse range of characters. It really enabled the world to expand to beyond a couple of locations, which makes it unique to other fantasy novels which tend to focus only on one.

Six of Crows is a YA story that is fresh and new from anything I've read before - it's no wonder it's taken the blogosphere by storm. Take note, other writers - this is how you grab your readers.

Diversity Note: POC and queer protagonists

Warnings: blood, torture, violence

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Hayley

Came for the Kaz Brekker hype & here to stay for The Wraith

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 7, 2020

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Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
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Criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams - but he can't pull it off alone.

Oh, how I've missed my angsty YA stories.

I'm a sucker for a book filled with twists and heartache. Six of Crows has certainly help fill the Cassandra Clare void I've been in since Clockwork Princess!

I've had this book a while and finally caved to the Kaz Brekker hype...

And I'm here to stay for it!

This book was full of twists and turns (predictable in that I never doubted Kaz always had something up his sleeve).

The writing style was addictive enough that it pulled me through the multiple character POVs. I tend to have a habit of skimming through 'lesser characters' POVs in most stories - but I found that I enjoyed reading through all five of them in Six of Crows.

I'm emotionally invested in each of the main characters and that's rare for me. They all have their own horrific backgrounds and I can't wait to read through their development in the next book!

I'm diving straight into Crooked Kingdom because if my heart is going to be broken - I just want to get it over with!

Favourite quotes

“When everyone knows you’re a monster, you needn’t waste time doing every monstrous thing.”

Kaz knew death. He could feel its presence on the ship now, looming over them, ready to take his Wraith. He was covered in her blood.

The autumn leaf might cling to its branch, but it was already dead. The only question was when it would fall.

A gambler, a convict, a wayward son, a lost Grisha, a Suli girl who had become a killer, a boy from the Barrel who had become something worse.

She’d laughed, and if he could have bottled the sound and got drunk on it every night, he would have. It terrified him.

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Muse

I literally had everything I wanted in this book!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 18, 2018

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Firstly I want to state that I've never read anything like Six of Crows! It is definitely the YA book that I didn't know I needed and now desperately want more of. I honestly felt like I was watching a DC film, because of the gritty characters and cinematic aspects! I'm a sucker for great villains/criminals in a book, and Leigh Bardugo gave me six of them, who I now love fiercely!

What I find so incredible about this book, is that I genuinely care for and love all of the main characters, which is very rare for me. Each character is just so brilliant in their own right, but together they make for a truly unforgettable cast. Although I cherish them all dearly, I do have to put it out there that Kaz and Inej are my faves and that I may be slightly obsessed with Kaz!

The switch in point of views for each chapter was genius, as it definitely allowed me to get to know each of the characters better. It's truly a great skill to be able to write from so many different point of views, whilst staying true to each character and without causing the flow of the book to suffer. The whole organisation of the book was just immaculate, It was utterly thrilling to be slowly fed bits of information, at a time, about the characters' past. I much preferred playing that little waiting game than seeing all of the characters cards at once.

I really liked the way the world was crafted, with the magic of the Grisha and the skill of ordinary individuals intermingling so well. It was refreshing to see how people without powers of their own, still managed to makes themselves deadly, through honing their skills. This balance between being skilled and possessing powers isn't really done in fantasy, and it really should be done more often.

All of the romances in Six of Crows have my full blessing and support! I seriously adore all of the relationships in this book, but there's one in particular that I completely live for! I literally had everything I wanted in this book; morally grey characters, diversity (in many ways), romances in every variation, great writing, a freaking heist, YA characters that were mature and KAZ BREKKER!

Even if you weren't that impressed with the Grisha trilogy (like myself), please pick this up, you won't regret it!

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