Six of Crows
Authors: Leigh Bardugo
‘This has all the right elements to keep readers enthralled: a cunning leader with a plan for every occasion, nigh-impossible odds, an entertaining combative team of skilled misfits, a twisty plot, and a nerve-wracking cliffhanger.’
Publishers Weekly, starred review
‘Cracking page-turner with a multiethnic band of misfits with differing sexual orientations who satisfyingly, believably jell into a family.’
Kirkus Reviews, starred review
‘Bardugo outdoes herself with this book, creating the gorgeously built backdrop of Ketterdam and populating it with a sophisticated cast of rogues and criminals.
Six of Crows
is a twisty and elegantly crafted masterpiece that thrilled me from beginning to end.’
Holly Black
Praise for
The Grisha Trilogy
‘A New York Times bestseller, it’s like
The Hunger Games
meets
Potter
meets
Twilight
meets
Lord Of
The Rings
meets
Game Of Thrones
; basically epic magical fantasy but completely for grown-ups.’
Stylist
‘Unlike anything I’ve ever read.’
Veronica Roth, author of the Divergent trilogy
‘A heady blend of fantasy, romance and adventure.’
Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson series
‘Mesmerising … Bardugo’s set up is shiver-inducing, of the delicious variety. This is what fantasy is for.’
New York Times
‘Shadow and Bone was a dark, rich, utterly compelling book that did not let me go from the very first word to the very last. I loved it, loved it, loved it, loved it!’
Guardian Teen
‘This engaging YA adventure takes a different and distinctly Russian approach to epic fantasy …
Giving us a convincingly chilly and well-thought-out world as well as a touchingly played romance, Leigh Bardugo’s fantasy is effortlessly readable.’
SFX
‘In this richly-imagined and beautifully-written novel, Leigh Bardugo has created a vivid fantasy world drawing on Russian traditions and folklore. With unexpected twists and turns, and plenty of action and romance, this is a pacy and exciting adventure, but also a multi-layered story of self-discovery, with an intelligent and compelling heroine in Alina.’
Booktrust
‘Leigh is a writer of the best kind because she loves her characters and the world they live in and makes a reader jealous that they can’t visit it. There is magic in these pages.’
Sister Spooky
Contents
Part 5: The Ice Does Not Forgive
To Kayte – secret weapon, unexpected friend
SOLDIERS OF THE SECOND ARMY
MASTERS OF THE SMALL SCIENCE
CORPORALKI
(The Order of the Living and the Dead)
He artre nde rs
He ale rs
ETHEREALKI
(The Order of Summoners)
Squalle rs
Infe rni
Tide make rs
MATERIALKI
(The Order of Fabrikators)
Durasts
Alke mi
Joost had two problems: the moon and his moustache.
He was supposed to be making his rounds at the Hoede house, but for the last fifteen minutes, he’d been hovering around the south-east wall of the gardens, trying to think of something clever and romantic to say to Anya.
If only Anya’s eyes were blue like the sea or green like an emerald. Instead, her eyes were brown –