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justdaphne · 2 years

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How the Crows spend valentines day:

🍫💐 for you 💐🍫 Happy Valentines day!

Wesper:

They are very much attached to each other especially on valentine’s day - well for obvious reasons

“literally let wylan go to the kitchen jesper-“

“SHUT UP KAZ”

literally making out at any given chance and yeah..

i dont think they’re big on giving gifts but they still do it becoz yes

“i love you i love you i love you”

*literally reciting poetry*

“i love you i love you”

wylan writing a song for jesper

they would throw a huge ass party and when i say huge- expect literally rich ppl shit fancy. its jesper cmon.

imagine a wall of flowers. it was there. oh and a whole chocolate fountain

Helnik:

oh my god its basically wesper in a different font

nina takes matthias to a whole different country for valentines day

matching outfits

matthias starts the day with traditions obv: flowers and chocolate. and also he made waffles for nina

nina gets yellow tulips for matthias too

she believes men should also recieve flowers

and they have those cute mornings but when they get up, its a whole splurge

i’d like to imagine them on those romantic boat rides

nah this whole day wasn’t a surprise. it was all planned by nina zenik. what do you expect lmao

“go big or go home am i right”

theyre like the couples you see on instagram on valentines day. nina’s goal is literally to make people jealous

but ofc outside of insta they had a great time

watching the sunset and the moon rising together

Kanej:

theyre chill about valentines day. they dont celebrate

they spend the day as if it was a regular monday

but when the day ends, roof top ‘date’

inej tells kaz another one of her suli proverbs *cough* about love *cough*

okay kaz was panicking the previous days becoz nina jesper wylan and matthias were pressuring him

he did give her geraniums though. surprisingly. for inej. yeah he took their advice but he’s not going to tell them.

they talk and inej smiles and laughs and kaz wants to bottleherlaughagainanditssweethe’smalfunctioningagain

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rotzaprachim · 5 years

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🔥 grishaverse ships

There’s a lot of ground to cover here but I need to lay my cards on the table that I got kinda board reading the OG grisha trilogy and never finished it so . . take all my opinions on that with a grain of salt! And as fandom in particular is very ships-based there is a HELL of a lot to unpack so i’m just going to go for a few hills to die on:

Alarking: I think many people treat this is a Reyl0 2.0, Reyl0 but In Russia, which I mean in the absolute worst way humanly possible. (The power of a somewhat blandly written character like Alina means that the self-insert ability is strong!)

Kanej: My NO. 1 ship, but with conditions!!! That I don’t feel are discussed enough! What we see in the SOC duology is like the initial stages of a relationship, but it’s also important to acknowledge that there’s an INCREDIBLE situational power imbalance between the two, what with him being the person who literally “bought” her from the menagerie and the functional boss of the dregs. Before any further relationship stuff this seriously needs to be unpacked. I really think Kaz and Inej need YEARS to develop as individuals and form new bonds and relationships with other people beyond their sort of insular circle, and before a relationship does happen it’s CRITICAL that they’re very much on equal ground and that Kaz takes initiative/the first steps in making this happen and also being verbally nicer to her. Asian girls deserve SO MUCH MORE.

Also people need to get better at including Critical Thinking in their moodboards and moodboards for inej in general like no with the chains and peacock feathers.

Wesper: The way certain people talk about their “gaybies” sure is weird. But the combo of treating Wylan as incredibly childlike and the aforementioned fandom racism in characterising jesper as simplistic comic- relief character isn’t good. Also the fact that this is a relationship between two different Nerds??? Underexplored. A chemistry/band nerd and a really smart crossover debate and law (he bullshitted an entire report on Zemeni oil that’s a kid who’s done a lot of congressional or EYP type debate)/materials science nerd. Also post CK Jesper becomes the fun-loving but radical law professor Ketterdam Uni while Wylan’s goal is to spend so much on social and political reforms in Ketterdam that he dies a poor man, and together they’re the ultimate power couple.

Send me a topic I’ll give you an unpopular opinion/hot take!

#asks #thanks so much for the asks and i saw your tag comments on the last post THEY'RE SO SWEET AND I SMILED SO MUCH!!!#grishaverse #kanej #wesper

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bookishbloggerreviews · 5 years

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Six of Crows/Crooked Kingdom -- An Honest Review

[Warning: I give an honest review that focuses not only on plot but on writing and character as well. As this is an opinion, you can take it as seriously as you want, but understand that my goal is to review, not shame or praise the author.]

HELLO FRIENDS!

I’m back with more bookish content for you, namely, review(s)! So I saw this book series was super popular a little while ago. I put it on my TBR and totally forgot about it, but recently I decided to pick it up and read it and OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG.

(That stands for Oh my goodness gracious good gordy grappling grips gone... I’m just gonna end the joke there before I end up losing all of my followers in one go.)

Anyway, it was a delight to read and I am here to review not only Six of Crows, but it’s companion novel, Crooked Kingdom!

So before I get into any spoilers concerning either novel, I would like to take a moment and say that overall, I gave this series a 9/10. For many, this was a 10/10 read, and I completely understand why. The characters were interesting and entertaining, the world was complex and well done, and the plots seemed to make sense, with everything tying back in. So I can wholeheartedly understand why people love these books so much. On the other hand, I gave this a 9/10 because I feel like I caught a few things that other people might not have, or there were some problems with how things were presented that I thought could’ve been polished a little more. (Really, there were just parts that needed polishing and that was it. So that’s what I’ll be focusing on.)

But anyway... for those who don’t know, I start a book with a minimum 5/10 expectation and adjust my scores from there. So clearly I highly enjoyed the book, and there’s not much else to say about that.

Now moving onto spoilers!

(But stop, because if you haven’t read these books then you might spoil a lot more for yourself than you wish and you’ll regret reading this if you haven’t. If not, continue on, fellow Dreg!)

[WARNING: SPOILERS]

(Also, in tribute to how I imagine Kaz would look, I will use nothing but Andy Biersack GIFS. You’re welcome.)

Starting off with Six of Crows... there seems to be a major debate going around about whether Six of Crows was better or if Crooked Kingdoms took the crown. And I would be lying if I said I didn’t have my own opinions about this. My conclusion: Six of Crows was the better book, while Crooked Kingdoms was the better romance. (And yes, you can separate these things.)

One of the interesting things about having a character like Kaz Brekker is that Kaz keeps company who he qualifies as worth keeping. Having said that, you have to place a value on each of the characters and determine who Kaz really would keep around or not. Inej has immense value, as Kaz can let down his guard around her and expect her to keep every one of his secrets. Nina has value, not only as a soldier, but as a healer, and furthermore, as someone Kaz can manipulate. Jesper has some value as a sharpshooter, but his value lies more in the fact that he’s a fabricator hidden in sight. He’s also easily manipulated, and while somewhat more of a wild card, still easy to account for. Wylan even offers a big asset seeing his heritage and his skill set. But I always struggled to discover what purpose Matthias served.

Now in Six of crows, he has a pretty clear purpose, at least, for half the time. His skill set is weak, and his ability to make choices is ridiculously questionable, but he at least has the knowledge that one needs to get into this frozen fortress. But once we enter the Crooked Kingdom, Matthias has no purpose. He’s chosen not to return to being a soldier, he can’t commit crimes to save his life, he can’t blend in, he can’t spy, he can’t fight well, he has no expertise in weapons, his whole purpose seems to be centered around Nina. “Fight for Nina, protect Nina, help Nina.” At which point Matthias becomes less of a character and more of a plot device.

And while I understand we are having an arc of Kaz Brekker essentially becoming more and more human and less and less “Dirtyhands, Bastard of the Barrel”, Kaz wouldn’t keep Matthias around for one more second than necessary, other than to placate Nina. (And given how Matthias seems to have little interest in money, this seems even truer.)

(And many of you might say: well this is Matthias’s time to overcome his prejudices and show people of previous prejudices they can do so to! It’s an important arc to his character! Well, the problem is... he’s hardly a character. Take away that one train of thought and all you have left is “Nina this, Nina that, Nina, Nina, Nina.” Get what I mean?)

So, in that aspect, I believe that Six of Crows is better written when it comes to the characters dynamic, give/take relationships.

There’s one other thing that I believe helps define Six of Crows as the better book, are we get more of a look at the plot and what’s going to happen than Crooked Kingdom. I don’t know about you, my friend, but I’m getting really tired of the whole, “there’s a plot! I’m just not going to let you in on any of it because then you’d already see the whole thing and I can’t make up for it in writing!” Style of plots. It’s obnoxious and I feel rather patronized for the writer to feel that they need to spell out the entire plot for me to understand what is occurring. That or that the writer can’t trust themselves not to spoil the plot before the plot actually unfolds.

Either way, you’re either mocking your reader or showing that you can’t figure out how to write your own story in such a way that both teases the mind while satisfying the need for the plot to be discovered.

Now you’re probably sitting there either thinking “great, but what about Crooked Kingdom? What about that? What’s good about that?” And all I can say is ROMANCE.

Crooked Kingdom does have a great plot, and I don’t want to make it sound like the only thing in the book is romance, but honestly, it’s one of those things where you come for the plot and you stay for the romance.

The plot, while interesting, was a little overwhelming. If you weren’t paying attention, you’d miss a bunch of the tiny little details about what’s actually going on and the implications that those actions have. Then, next thing you know, you’d be reading about how Jesper suddenly has the ability to control the bullets he shoots.

But the romance, on the other hand, was very well paced. (The whole Nina and Matthias thing just felt a little bit like wasted potential but otherwise...)

KAZ AND INEJ: I’VE RARELY READ SUCH GOOD ROMANCE THAT ACCURATELY PORTRAYS PTSD WITHOUT MAKING IT SO DRAMATIC AND UNBELIEVABLE, WHILE AT THE SAME TIME NOT SAYING THAT LOVE CAN CURE MENTAL DISORDERS.

Plus~

WYLAN AND JESPER ARE SLOWLY BECOMING THE BEST THING FOR EACH OTHER AND I AM HERE FOR THE OTHER TRYING TO MAKE THE OTHER PROUD. WHAT A GREAT SHIP THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.

Literally, I cannot think of such few ships that have automatically topped my OTP within 2 books. I can’t. Not even the Infernal Devices ever achieved that and they’re a powerful duo. For me, I tend to see a regression of most of my popular ships on book two. Yet these couples are going strong, and with the promise of a third book, I can’t wait to see where they go next.

So... overall. Unpopular opinion: Matthias was a bit of a wasted character, and because Nina’s story was so heavily tied to his, I found it to slowly slide into the problem category as well. Another unpopular (or maybe highly popular?) opinion: Kaz Brekker is a great character. But not because he murders people, but because he is consistent in his actions, feelings, and thoughts and is not glorified to be this abusive jerk, but rather, wonderfully horrible person. He’s actually horrible, but he’s an interesting kind of horrible that makes me want to keep reading.

Until next time...

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