Hey everyone, welcome back to the Waterstones vlog, my name is Sian and
today I am here to talk to you about my all-time favorite duology and that is
The Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom. So Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom are both set
in the Grisha universe which was first established in Leigh Bardugo's trilogy
the Grisha Trilogy, that's what it's called, but that is Shadow and Bone,
Siege and Storm and Ruin and Rising. These are also really good books if you want
to check them out I definitely would recommend that but I much prefer Six
of Crows and Crooked Kingdom. You can read these two without reading The
Grisha verse books first you don't really have to read them in publication
order, these completely stand on their own and they make complete sense without
you having to read the other trilogy. Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom are
basically kind of mostly described as like an Oceans 11 meets Game of Thrones
kind of world. I love them, I absolutely love the. Leigh Bardugo has
become one of these authors that I would buy anything she writes. She's an auto-buy
author for me and that's because of these two books. Like I said, I liked the
Grisha trilogy but these two absolutely had me hooked from the first page
until the very last page in the second book. I would read her shopping list.
I would genuinely read her shopping list. It's got several different point of
views throughout it but Kaz Brekker is kind of like the main character. He is
given the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to gain himself an insane amount of
wealth which obviously any criminal wants to do but to do that he has to
break into a military stronghold which is called the Ice Core and it's never
been breached before like it's impossible so say to breach the Ice Core
and Kaz decides to take it on but to do that he knows that he needs to put a
gang of the worst criminals together to be able to get into the Ice Core without
killing each other first. Basically they have to break into the Ice Core because
they need to retrieve a hostage who could wreak havoc on the world and
absolutely destroy their world as they know it, so the fate of the world
essentially hangs on six crooks and teenagers who are all thieves,
who have all done dastardly things in their life and they need to get on and
they need to survive together to be able to get into the Ice Core and so much happens!
It's a fantasy heist and I just love it,
every second of it. So I'll start off by saying that Leigh Bardugo writes some of
the most incredible characters that I've ever read. Usually I really struggle with
multiple point of views because I find myself losing interest in certain
characters but with this I didn't because each character has really,
genuinely got their own unique voice and I think sometimes with multiple points
of view it can kind of blend into one and you don't know when you're reading a
different chapter from a different character. That is not the case with
these books, they are all so unique that you know when you've switched characters.
Each person in this book has their own incredibly interesting backstory, they
have their own strong personalities and there wasn't one character that I read
from that I got bored of I really enjoyed reading from all of their points
of view. I could genuinely read a book on each of these characters on their own
about everything that they've been through in their life.
I would probably say that Nina and Inej were my favourites, you know, girl power
and all that, but Kaz Brekker is just, he is one of a kind. I want to be able to
read everything from his point of view, I love him, he is wonderful. They all have
their own quirks and kind of their own interesting dynamic between each other.
Kaz is kind of the glue that's holding them all together because he is their
boss. The characters aren't all just really kick-ass and they can't all just
magically fight and they aren't amazing, there are a lot of intelligent
characters and they use their mind and they use their wits, especially Kaz.
He's so smart and I think my favorite part about him that was he
often used his intelligence as a weapon as opposed to I mean he could fight but
his intelligence was his most important weapon and I really enjoyed that about his
character. The storyline and the plot was also incredibly interesting and so fast
paced throughout both of the books, I will add both of the books because
I'm talking about the duology as a whole. First book great, second book just adds a
whole nother level to this duology because
usually you kind of get the first book, yeah it's great,
and the second book kind of brings it down a notch. Nope, not with these two
books, they just, they work so well together and they just tie up the story
so well and so much happened, there's so much suspense and there's so much action
So as I previously mentioned Leigh Bardugo obviously has a whole universe
already created with the Grisha trilogy and it just expands even more in these
two books, you don't have to read the others though to just feel the depth
of the world in these you read these two books and you just know that there's so
much world history and you know that so much has gone on in the past without her
having to tell you that, you just - you know. The books are incredibly
atmospheric and her world building I think his spot-on. Again she's another
author who, her worlds just captivate me and they draw me in and I want to spend
all of my time reading about them. If you want a couple of books that are gonna
keep you hooked from the beginning until the end, that's full of fantasy, magic,
heists, criminals, dangerous magic, all of the above, read these books
because I can't recommend them enough to people that love fantasy and that love
young adult books. Honestly, in the shop, I recommend this to everyone that's like
'Oh can you can you give me a fantasy book?' And I'm like 'Aha! Yes I can.'
That's it for me today guys I hope you've enjoyed this video and I hope
I've made you want to read Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom because... read it
That's all I'm gonna say. I will see you in my next video. Byeee!