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Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)

Leigh Bardugo

Start date: October 1, 2015

Finish date: October 31, 2015

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Sep 15, 2019 joi. rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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Hello everyone, and thank you for coming to my review of How to Be Gay and Do Crimes in Pretend Magic Victorian Amsterdam, starring my 6 morally gray genius children: Batman, Catwoman, Robin, Other Smaller Robin, Mr. Freeze, and Nina Zenik.

In this book, a criminal mastermind is hired by a regular criminal to steal a drug dealer from Frozen Alcatraz. He gathers together his 4 best friends and Mathias Helvar, and they set out on the single most romantic first date anyone could ever hope for. It i Hello everyone, and thank you for coming to my review of How to Be Gay and Do Crimes in Pretend Magic Victorian Amsterdam, starring my 6 morally gray genius children: Batman, Catwoman, Robin, Other Smaller Robin, Mr. Freeze, and Nina Zenik.

In this book, a criminal mastermind is hired by a regular criminal to steal a drug dealer from Frozen Alcatraz. He gathers together his 4 best friends and Mathias Helvar, and they set out on the single most romantic first date anyone could ever hope for. It includes: tanks, guns, ships, comeuppance, singing, wigs, murder, homicide, flutes, killing, birds, trees, people standing silently next to each other and being like "wtf bro???", fashion, mockery, investments, and repeated graphic descriptions of waffles. There is also a heist, but that is less important.

The writing in this book is so incredibly lush and evocative, you will get lost in the language! This book reads more like poetry than fiction, with such beautiful sentences as: "Maybe I liked your stupid face", "Nina?", "Where's my hat?", "You just have really ugly feet", and the oft-quoted classic "It's some kind of series of cables and bells".

Please know that if you read this book, there is one character you will ABSOLUTELY fall in love with and will never be able to forget. Dirix is swoon-worthy and he will instantly make you wish every person you meet could be like him, but DO NOT OBSESS OVER HIM. He ends up barely being in the book, even though he is clearly the Book Boyfriend we are all waiting for.

All in all, this is singularly the greatest work in all of American literature. It will leave you screaming obscenities at any copies of The Great Gatsby or The Whole30 Cookbook you own because they will never live up to the legacy of this book. My recommendation is to limit yourself to 30 minutes of screaming at your other books per day, otherwise your neighbors will begin to complain, and yes Janet, this part is about you STOP PUTTING YOUR GREEN WASTE IN MY BIN!

5 STARS - DID READ AGAIN immediately after I finished the duology for the first time. Will read again right now since I got the books out so I could reread those 5 incredible sentences about Dirix and dream of us raising a few nondescript kids together.

Thanks again for checking out this review. If it was helpful to you, please send a SASE to Jan van Eck with a note that just says 'WE HAVE YOUR DE KAPPEL', stabbed several times and with, like, a little devil face on it. He will LOVE that. ...more

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