#six of crows
I can’t believe Shadow and Bone comes out tomorrow (!!) I’ve been internally screaming all week. Anyway here are my (finally) finished portraits of Alina, Inej, Genya and Nina. I can’t wait to see these characters and this world come to life on screen.
how i go to sleep at night knowing that inej is out there living her dreams on HER ship, catching human traffickers and being the badass she is:
Nina Zenik doodle <3 I love her so much
“I am the sun summoner. It gets dark when I say it does.”
- alina starkov made by me
Dirtyhands and the Wraithby Paulina Sieczkowska, 2021
“I would have come for you. And if I couldn’t walk, I’d crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we’d fight our way out together - knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that’s what we do. We never stop fighting.”
Portraits of Freddy Carter as Kaz Brekker and Amita Suman as Inej Ghafa from the Netflix series “Shadow and Bone” based on the Grishaverse books by Leigh Bardugo.
Pencil and digital collage.
Brudnoręki i Zjawa, Paulina Sieczkowska, 2021
Portrety Kaza Brekker’a (Freddy Carter) i Inej Ghafa (Amita Suman) z serialu “Cień i Kość” na Netflixie, na podstawie książek Leigh Bardugo (Szóstka Wron, Uniwersum Griszów).
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the first words of inej’s pov in soc is kaz brekker ok wow i love them sm i-
I wanna see my little boy, here it comes…
I watched the Netflix show and I really loved it, can’t wait to see all the crows together Now there’s only the excruciating pain to wait until the next season haha
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matthias and nina my beloved, they are so <3
“Nina had blown into his life with the wind and rain and set his world spinning. He’s been off balance ever since” I’M GONNA FUCKING COLLAPSE-
“The old answers came easily to mind. Money. Vengeance. Jordie’s voice in my head silenced forever. But a different reply roars to life inside him, loud, insistent, and unwelcome. You. Inej. You” JESUS FUCKING CHRIST MY GOD
oh my god i love jesper and inejs relationship
How do booktubers read so many books in a month???
If I finish one a month I’m proud of myself. It’s a process of reading. Setting the book down to stare at the ceiling. Crying and smiling while saying “It’s so damn brilliant”
Or putting the book down and staring at the camera like I’m in the office because its so irritating.
Then there’s the two week period of book hangover when you can stop thinking about how brilliant this author is for making you feel things again.
I have to collect my thoughts and then write my opinion to sort out how I actually feel about it (welcome to this blog)
Kaz is a control freak. He needs to be in control of every confrontation, conversation and he needs to be able to control every person around him. Kaz does not act without meticulous planning. I can’t think of a single instance where he improvised. He improvised a PLAN after the Ice Court job fell apart but he was never blindly acting on instinct. Everything went according to plan, if it didn’t he had a backup plan. He’s basically a Moriarty crime boss. The spider at the center of the web and he knows exactly how each one of them dances.
He needs control so he will never have to depend on another person for safety or food. Like he depended on Pekka Rollins. Like he depended on Jordie. He longs for someone to have his back, to have Jordie there again. He blames Jordie for leaving him alone and being foolish in trusting the wrong people.
This character is so interesting and it’s astounding how Leigh made him so sympathetic despite the fact he kind of awful. Do I love him? Yes I do. Do I know why? No I don’t.
I consumed Six of Crows and I’m forcing myself to wait to read the second book until I write this review.
The audiobook for this book is amazing. I appreciated the casting and the acting was phenomenal. I’m picky with my audiobooks and this one was really well done.
Most important aspect of this book, the characters. Each member in the gang has specific skill sets to perform the the heist. Kaz, the leader of the gang was the most developed character but all members had intriguing and unique backstories that explains how they got into this situation.
These people aren’t fairy tale teenagers who do bad things because it’s fun–they are criminals, some by choice and others were forced into it by crippling debt or enslavement. The balance of hardened criminal and young teenage energy was well done and understandable. The dialogue and banter between the characters felt natural.
This book deals with some heavy trauma and I thought it was cleverly used, especially within Kaz. The horrifying flashbacks of feeling his dead brothers body has made him overly sensitive to touch of any kind. The constant wearing of gloves has created myths about the secret he hides and it becomes a trademark of his. I don’t know if this kind of thing exists in the real world but it makes sense within the story.
The characters were the focal point of the story, then the heist. This story takes place in two cities. The world building isn’t very expansive but for the story that was being told, it suited the book. The personal growth of each character and getting through the heist is what makes this story good. Each character had a satisfying arc and none got left behind by other characters.
I’m not usually a fan of heist movies or books so I wasn’t totally enthralled by the plot but I stayed for the characters. One thing I did appreciate was the fact that the entire plan went to shit. Literally every step failed or didn’t go as expected. Even at the very end the entire premise of the book falls apart.
This book is good YA heist story with enjoyable characters. I enjoyed it and now I will go read Crooked Kingdom.
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In honor of Read a Book Day, I have started Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo.
- She’d often wished to chip away a bit of his arrogance, but she couldn’t bear the idea of seeing Kaz stripped of his pride.
- One minute he made her blush and the next he made her want to commit murder.
- What do you want, then?
The old answers came easily to mind. Money. Vengeance. Jordie’s voice in my head silenced forever. But a different reply roared to life inside him, loud, insistent, and unwelcome. You, Inej. You.- Speak, she begged silently. Give me a reason to stay. For all his selfishness and cruelty, Kaz was still the boy who had saved her. She wanted to believe he was worth saving, too.
- She would have her ship and he would have his city.
- “I would have come for you. And if I could’t walk, I’d crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we’d fight our way out together - knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that’s what we do. We never stop fighting.”
- “I can hear the change in Kaz’s breathing when he looks at you.“
“You… you can?”
“It catches every time, like he’s never seen you before”- She’d laughed and if he could have bottled the sound and got drunk on it every night, he would have. It terrified him.
- Kaz had taught her to crack a safe, pick a pocket, wield a knife. He’d gifted her with her first blade, the one she called Sankt Petyr - not as pretty as wild geraniums, but more practical, she supposed.
- He needed to tell her… what? That she was lovely and brave and better than anything he deserved. That he was twisted, crooked, wrong, but not so broken that he couldn’t pull himself together into some semblance of a man for her. That without meaning to, he’d begun to lean on her, to look for her, to need her near.
- It was as if once Kaz had seen her, he’d understood how to keep seeing her.
