Six of Crows – Leigh Bardugo

This book is set in the Grishaverse, but definitely comes across as grittier than the books in the Shadow and Bone series – those are more fairy tales. This is a heist book.

Kaz Brekker has been given the heist opportunity of a lifetime, and each member of the crew he assembles has good reason to want the amount of money they’ll be swimming in if they manage to pull things off.

The story was really well done, but I found this one harder to read than the previous books. It somehow managed to be way darker. (I do maintain that I’m dealing way less well with dark this year than in the past.) I had to pause several times while reading this before I could push my way through again. It really has been a weird reading year.