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“One could plot violent espionage and still hope for dessert.”

King of Scars (Nikolai Duology #1) by Leigh Bardugo

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I’m trash for the whole Grishaverse, so of course I loved this. If anyone else, like me, enjoyed both previous series and ever thought to themselves, “Hey, you know what would be great, a sequel to the Grisha trilogy that feels more thematically like Six of Crows?” you’re in luck! Because that’s this book. We’re back with some of our favorite characters from both all of the books, and they’ve all been through some shit, so they’re all a little bit (or a lot bit) cynical and hardened and still just trying to do their best even though it never […]

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6/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:8 |

A promising start to a new series

King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo

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Spoiler warning! While this is the start of a new series, it does follow on directly from Leigh Bardugo’s Grisha trilogy and her Six of Crows duology. While you will understand the plot fine if you haven’t read the previous books, you WILL be spoiled for events in both series. Spoilers may also appear in this review. Proceed at your own risk. From Goodreads, because I finished the audiobook two months ago (sigh): Nikolai Lantsov has always had a gift for the impossible. No one knows what he endured in his country’s bloody civil war—and he intends to keep it that way. Now, as enemies […]

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5/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:21 |

They’re not bad, they just are

Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

Seige and Storm by Leigh Bardugo

Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo

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I recognized the cover and remembered an old roommate of mine had these books and I think I borrowed and read at least one? But as I finally cracked open the trilogy for myself nothing felt familiar so maybe I just saw the cover a lot. I read Bardugo other series, set in the same broad universe, and was very impressed with how she told a new and very different story. I also want to go re-read Six of Crows, which I remember being better. But it was nice to have some frame of reference going into the Grisha trilogy. Basically this world […]

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4/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:35 |

If you love fairy tales

The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic by Leigh Bardugo

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I’ve always enjoyed fairy tales and became a bit obsessed once I discovered the darker original Grimm Brothers and Hans Christian Anderson collections.  This book evokes those tales but the stories have been spun in different and interesting directions, in part because it was created as a volume of fairy tales that the characters in the Grishaverse (the world setting Leigh Bardugo created) would know.  In 2012 Leigh’s publisher asked if she would write a prequel story for her first novel Shadow and Bone.  But instead of ideas for that, what came to her was the concept of writing stories her […]

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1/8/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:4 |

“Knowledge isn’t a sign of divine favor. Prosperity is.”

Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

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Bingo square: This is the End. Also I hit half a cannonball, yay! That was my goal so everything from here on in is extra. There will be some spoilers for the first book in here. Picking up where Six of Crows left off, Crooked Kingdom follows Kaz Brekker and his gang of ne’er-do-wells as they deal with the betrayal and fallout from their heist. Inej has been taken hostage and they don’t have the money promised them. They’re all a bit battered and exhausted but don’t have any downtime to recover before Kaz has them back plotting. For revenge and […]

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8/9/2018 's CBR10 Review No:27 |

This is the Wonder Woman I Wanted

Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo

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I was one of the people that liked Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman but didn’t love the movie that much (though the scene where she crosses No Man’s Land was pretty amazing).  Something about her character felt too naive to me – “humans are innocent, if I kill Ares, all conflict will stop forever.”  As a result, I liked this teenage Wonder Woman much more.  She believes in helping humans, giving people opportunities, but also doesn’t think that one thing alone can be blamed for human actions and wars.  This is why she can be sympathetic to the titular Warbringer […]

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7/23/2018 's CBR10 Review No:129 |

No Mourners, No Funerals

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

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In the bustling city of Ketterdam, thief Kaz Brekker is a leading member of the street gang, the Dregs. He has a talent for scheming and coming out of close calls, and when a wealthy merchant asks him to do the seemingly impossible, he can’t say no. The task is breaking into the Ice Court, an impenetrable fortress, to retrieve a valuable asset. The score is the millions Kaz is offered if he succeeds. And survives. To pull off the heist, Kaz assembles his crew: Inej, known as The Wraith, a spy; Jesper, a sharpshooter whose downfall is gambling; Nina, […]

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7/16/2018 's CBR10 Review No:25 |

Dark horse favorite YA ‘verse

Six of Crows, Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows #1,2) by Leigh Bardugo

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Something about the original Grisha trilogy has really stuck with me. At the time that I finished Ruin and Rising, the third book in that series, my passion and protectiveness of the main character Alina inspired a ranty, off-topic diatribe of a review about shipping wherein I was basically mad that other readers didn’t appreciate the book and the ending of the trilogy because they were mad their ship didn’t become canon. It’s a silly thing to become incensed about, but clearly something in the book made me very defensive, and whatever that thing is drove me to recall that […]

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7/1/2018 's CBR10 Review No:35 |


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