A convict with a thirst for revenge. [Mattias]
A sharpshooter who can’t walk away from a wager. [Jesper]
A runaway with a privileged past. [Wylan]
A spy known as the Wraith. [Inej]
A Heartrender using her magic to survive the slums. [Nina]
A thief with a gift for unlikely escapes. [Kaz]
Kaz "Dirtyhands" Brekker, leader of the Dregs gang is offered a huge sum of money, enough to give his boss twenty percent and the rest of the crew $4 million Kruge each to break into the unbreakable Ice Palace and get Bo Yul-Bayur out. Bo is a Ravkan who has managed to turn jurda, a caffeine-like substance into jurda pardem, a lethal drug that makes the user addicted and turns their Grisha powers up on high. Fabrikators can turn metal into gold or make very lethal weapons out of it. Each has their reason for wanting the money and Nina wants to see Mattias broken out of jail that she didn't mean to put him into and this job would free him. But nothing goes right on the job and Bo turns up to be dead with his son Kuwei has taken his place and is searching for an antidote to jurda pardem. Nina takes the jurda pardem to save them and to make Wylan look like Kuwei so that when the trade is made if Kaz doesn't get his money he will not have risked Kuwei. Which is a good thing since Van Eck who hired them, double crosses them and takes Inej captive.
This book opens with them looking to find where Van Eck has stashed Inej by breaking into his lawyer's office and looking through his books. They figure out where Inej is but decide to kidnap Van Eck's pregnant wife to ensure that they get Inej back. A trade is made on the bridge and they get Inej back. Kaz, who admitted his greatest fear to Inej, that he hates being touched and that's why he wears gloves all the time cannot allow Inej to make him weak so he pushes her away a bit.
Mattias and Nina have a hard row to hoe with Nina still craving the juda pardem even though she purged it out of her system on the boat ride back. Her powers have also changed. She is no longer the normal Heartrender she was before but can call bones to her to do her bidding. She must deal with this unnatural use of her talent and Mattias must somehow cope with the fact that she is the enemy that he grew up hating.
Wylan finds out things about his father that he never knew and comes to loathe him even more. Jesper's father comes from back home because the loan on his farm is now due and he doesn't have the funds and is hoping that Jesper does along with an explanation as to what has been going on. Jesper lies to his father in hopes of not having to tell him that he is a gambler who was in debt.
Kaz has a plan to end Van Eck by having him arrested for market's fraud when he takes a mechanical weevil and destroys the sugar silos that are owned by him and betting on sugar being in short supply by putting money in the market under their names for sugar stock. But nothing goes according to plan. Van Eck is not working alone and that makes him more dangerous than ever because he wants to destroy Kaz and his gang. Will Kaz be able to figure out a new plan in time to save them all?
This book has amazing characters and sharp dialogue. Each chapter is told from someone's point of view and you really get to know these characters even more than before from the other book. This series ends with this book so sadly this is the last of these characters you will see, I guess, though she has written other books set in the same world so anything is possible. I hated letting them go I had grown so attached to them. This book is a must read of the highest order. I cannot recommend it enough and give it five out of five stars. I'd go higher if I could.
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You are a stolen painting, Kuwei. Too recognizable to sell on the open market, too valuable to leave lying around. You are worthless to me.
This book opens with them looking to find where Van Eck has stashed Inej by breaking into his lawyer's office and looking through his books. They figure out where Inej is but decide to kidnap Van Eck's pregnant wife to ensure that they get Inej back. A trade is made on the bridge and they get Inej back. Kaz, who admitted his greatest fear to Inej, that he hates being touched and that's why he wears gloves all the time cannot allow Inej to make him weak so he pushes her away a bit.
Mattias and Nina have a hard row to hoe with Nina still craving the juda pardem even though she purged it out of her system on the boat ride back. Her powers have also changed. She is no longer the normal Heartrender she was before but can call bones to her to do her bidding. She must deal with this unnatural use of her talent and Mattias must somehow cope with the fact that she is the enemy that he grew up hating.
Wylan finds out things about his father that he never knew and comes to loathe him even more. Jesper's father comes from back home because the loan on his farm is now due and he doesn't have the funds and is hoping that Jesper does along with an explanation as to what has been going on. Jesper lies to his father in hopes of not having to tell him that he is a gambler who was in debt.
Kaz has a plan to end Van Eck by having him arrested for market's fraud when he takes a mechanical weevil and destroys the sugar silos that are owned by him and betting on sugar being in short supply by putting money in the market under their names for sugar stock. But nothing goes according to plan. Van Eck is not working alone and that makes him more dangerous than ever because he wants to destroy Kaz and his gang. Will Kaz be able to figure out a new plan in time to save them all?
This book has amazing characters and sharp dialogue. Each chapter is told from someone's point of view and you really get to know these characters even more than before from the other book. This series ends with this book so sadly this is the last of these characters you will see, I guess, though she has written other books set in the same world so anything is possible. I hated letting them go I had grown so attached to them. This book is a must read of the highest order. I cannot recommend it enough and give it five out of five stars. I'd go higher if I could.
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You are a stolen painting, Kuwei. Too recognizable to sell on the open market, too valuable to leave lying around. You are worthless to me.
-Leigh Bardugo (Crooked Kingdom p 46)
Better terrible truths than kind lies.
-Leigh Bardugo (Crooked Kingdom p 56-7)
Knowledge isn’t a sign of divine favor. Prosperity is.
-Leigh Bardugo (Crooked House p 71)
Zoya used to say that fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and
still it will return.
-Leigh Bardugo (Crooked House p 188)
He’d started to think of Jesper as fearless, but maybe
being brave didn’t mean being unafraid.
-Leigh Bardugo (Crooked House p 203)
I think you’d flirt with a date palm if it would pay you
any attention.
-Leigh Bardugo (Crooked House p 235)
We endure all kinds of pain. It’s shame that eats men whole.
-Leigh Bardugo (Crooked House p 283)
I don’t hold a grudge. I cradle it. I coddle it. I feed it fine cuts of meat and send it to
the best schools. I nurture my grudges,
Rollins.
-Leigh Bardugo (Crooked House p 300)
Nina glanced from Inej to Kaz and saw they both wore the
same expression. Nina knew that
look. It came after the shipwreck, when
the tide moved against you and the sky had gone dark. It was the first sight of
land, the hope of shelter and even salvation that might await you on a distant
shore.
-Leigh Bardugo (Crooked House p 314)
And that was what destroyed you in the end: the longing for
something you could never have.
-Leigh Bardugo (Crooked House p 419)
Suffering is like anything else. Live with it long enough, you learn to like
the taste.
-Leigh Bardugo (Crooked House p 478)
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