Six of Crows
Six criminals attempt an impossible prison break for an impossible fee. A heist novel with six perspectives, four romances handled almost entirely through restraint, and the best-constructed plot on this list. On the House's scale it rates 1 for spice (a door, closed), 3 for how much of the book is the romance, and 5 for craft. Readers who want found family and yearning with no spice whatsoever.
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How it rates
- Author
- Leigh Bardugo
- Series
- Six of Crows, book 1 of 2 · series complete
- Spice
- Spice 1 out of 5, A door, closed1/5 · A door, closed
- Romance
- 3/5
- Plot
- 5/5
- Worldbuilding
- 5/5
- Darkness
- 4/5
- Writing craft
- 5/5
- Burn
- Slow burn
- Point of view
- third person, dual
- Ending
- Happy ever after · cliffhanger
- Setting
- Ketterdam, a mercantile city built on vice
- Audience
- Young adult
- Pages
- 512
On the spice rating No explicit content at all. One of the romances turns on a character who cannot bear to be touched, and the book respects that completely. How the scale works.
Content warnings violence, child trafficking, addiction, torture.
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