Harper Ellison★ Sage · Lv 7
todayThe best heist crew in fantasy. Kaz Brekker owns my whole heart.
Fantasy
Six of Crows
4.7· 467 ratings
Published 2015512 pagesEnglishThrilling · Clever
No mourners. No funerals.
Why read it
A crippled teenage crime boss is offered a fortune to break into the most secure fortress in the world and steal a scientist whose drug could unmake the balance of power, so he assembles a crew of outcasts who all have their own reasons to die trying.
The premise
Kaz Brekker recruits a spy, a sharpshooter, a heartrender, a runaway, and a convict for a heist that no sane person would attempt: infiltrating the Fjerdan Ice Court. Told through rotating viewpoints, the novel weaves each thief's trauma and loyalties into a caper that keeps turning on betrayal and improvisation. It is a fantasy heist about broken people who become, reluctantly, a family.
The story behind it
Leigh Bardugo published Six of Crows in 2015, set in the same universe as her Shadow and Bone trilogy. A New York Times bestseller, it and its sequel Crooked Kingdom were adapted alongside Shadow and Bone for Netflix.
What awaits inside
- 01
The impossible heist
What awaits is a break-in so well-defended that every plan must survive going wrong.
- 02
Six wounded outsiders
Each crew member carries a specific damage, and the story lets those scars drive the action.
- 03
Loyalty among thieves
A found family forms not through sentiment but through shared risk and grudging trust.
- 04
A drug that breaks the world
Jurda parem raises the stakes: a substance that turns magic-wielders into weapons.
From the book
Inej, the Wraith, crossing between the Ice Court's structures on a high wire and along ledges no one else could scale.
The desperate escape down the incinerator chute, a plan that collapses and forces the crew to improvise their way out of the fortress.
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