Name: Crooked Kingdom (Grishaverse series #5, Six of Crows series #2)
Author: Leigh Bardugo
Publisher: Orion's Children's Books
Date published: This edition September 2019, first published September 2016.
Genre: Fiction, young adult, fantasy, adventure, romance
Pages: 544
Rating: 5/5
Kaz Brekker and his crew of deadly outcasts 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.
- From Goodreads.
Crooked Kingdom was an incredible follow up to Six of Crows with a exciting plot that kept me invested the whole way through.
The way the emotional journeys of each character developed and wrapped up felt well done to me, and towards the end I found myself quite surprised by how much I reacted to the events and conclusions to the stories. I especially enjoyed Kaz and Inej's developments and how they reacted to each other and helped each other.
I also enjoyed the more in-depth exploration of Ketterdam, since in the first book the main heist took place outside of the city, it was interesting to see more of the place that meant so much to the characters and see it really become its own character. It was so detailed and well built, it felt like such a real place.
The little hints and references to the first trilogy in this series and the characters included from those books were exciting to see and well placed. They felt like they were included with good reason and because they needed to be, not just for the sake of it. Some of the small references even made me a little emotional.
Just as with Six of Crows, although a lot of the plot seemed to be set out in front of you because you knew what heist or plan or trap the characters needed to pull off, the plot still managed to be full of interesting twists and turns that were not expected and kept me wanting to read onto the ending to find out how everything resolved and what tricks the characters had up their sleeves.
Overall this was a fantastic book that was a great addition to the universe of the series in general and a great wrap up to the Six of Crows duology. It was intense and emotional and heart-breaking at times, but also had some really joyful and heart-warming moments.
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