Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

Rating : 5+/5 stars.

Genre: Fantasy / Young-adult

Published September 20th 2016 

by Henry Holt and Company

Goodreads synoposis: 

When you can’t beat the odds, change the game.

" Kaz Brekker and his crew have just pulled off a heist so daring even they didn’t think they’d survive. But instead of divvying up a fat reward, they’re right back to fighting for their lives. Double-crossed and badly weakened, the crew is low on resources, allies, and hope. As powerful forces from around the world descend on Ketterdam to root out the secrets of the dangerous drug known as jurda parem, old rivals and new enemies emerge to challenge Kaz’s cunning and test the team's fragile loyalties. A war will be waged on the city’s dark and twisting streets ― a battle for revenge and redemption that will decide the fate of the Grisha world."

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“I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.” 

Ok.

Where do I even start with this?! Leigh Bardugo just blew my brain into a million pieces, knocked the breath out of me with this beast of a book. Damn this woman knows how to end a series. 

Beginning 2016, I read Six of Crows and didn't even think that it's possible for the sequel to beat how good it was.
But it DID. IT SO FREAKING BEAT IT ALL TO KERCH AND BACK !

I enjoyed every page of Crooked Kingdom, I savored reading it. I was on the edge of my seat for literally 90% of the book. I loved how Bardugo took her time to tell the back story of every character. Everyone got his own spotlight at some point throughout the story and it was perfect. Major character developments were even better than i imagined and don't even get me started on the plot twists with every damn new part, it's I.N.S.A.N.E. 

With all the action, twists, surprises ... nothing felt out of place. Every knot was released; or at least in a relieving way, a way I could live in. The thing is that I feel wanting more, I want to know more. I want to know what happens next, I wanna keep reading the crows stories, I can't get enough with only two books. 
I can't even pick a favorite character because I loved them ALL. Well of course I might lean a bit towards Mr. Kaz Brekker, but the others are SO close to him. 

Basically, If you want to read a book with a bad-ass story, and very much alive, heart-beating through the ink on pages, PICK THIS DUOLOGY UP.

This book - this duology - is P.E.R.F.E.C.T.I.O.N