Hardcover, 546 pages
Rating: ★★★★★
There was a lot of hype for this book, which put me off for a while as I often find myself left cold by the most popular YA, but luckily I very much enjoyed Six of Crows.
While it's fairly obvious that the book takes place in a pre-imagined world from another series, it actually made the book more enjoyable to have not read the others. Feeling dropped into another world is one of my favourite immersive techniques for writing and it worked particularly well for Six of Crows.
Each character was interesting in their own right, their motivations and pasts intricate and made the characters come alive. I particularly liked the complex relationship between Nina and Matthias, I felt that was more intricately written than most bland 'opposites attract' romances in YA. I also really enjoyed Inej - there was something about her I found easy to connect to.
One quibble however is that the characters are aged 16 to 18. It felt a bit ridiculous because based on their backstories and the roles they played in the story. I kept thinking they were each about five or so years older - still young, but not children. It made me wonder if the author made them teenagers so that the book would qualify as YA rather than any narrative need for the characters to be that age.
But overall, it was a fun, fast-paced heist book and I greatly enjoyed it.
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