Synopsis
Six of Crows follows the adventures of six teenage criminals hired to undertake a dangerous heist, while searching for love and redemption along the way. The leader of the group is Kaz Brekker, the cunning, ruthless leader of the Dregs, one of many street gangs in the port city of Ketterdam.
Kaz is joined on the mission by Inej, a former acrobat who was kidnapped and sold into slavery before coming to work as a spy for the Dregs.
The other members of the crew include Nina, a Grisha Heartrender who has the power to alter people's physical and emotional states, as well as her nemesis and love interest, Matthias, a disgraced Fjerdan soldier whom they must first break out of prison.
Jesper, an impulsive marksman with a gambling addiction, and Wylan Van Eck, the estranged son of the merchant who hired them, round out the team of outcasts and misfits.
Together, these six pull off an impossible heist, face the ghosts of their dark pasts, and find unlikely love and connections with each other.
Leigh Bardugo
Leigh Bardugo is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Familiar, Ninth House and the creator of the Grishaverse (now a Netflix original series) which spans the Shadow and Bone trilogy, the Six of Crows duology, the King of Scars duology—and much more. Her short fiction has appeared in multiple anthologies including The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy. She lives in Los Angeles and is an associate fellow of Pauli Murray College at Yale University.
"He needed to tell her...what? That she was lovely and brave and better than anything he deserved. That he was twisted, crooked, wrong, but not so broken that he couldn't pull himself together into some semblance of a man for her. That without meaning to, he'd begun to lean on her, to look for her, to need her near. He needed to thank her for his new hat."
"Kaz leaned back. 'What's the easiest way to steal a man's wallet?'
'Knife to the throat?' asked Inej.
'Gun to the back?' said Jesper.
'Poison in his cup?' suggested Nina.
'You're all horrible,' said Matthias."
"If it were a trick, I'd promise you safety. I'd offer you happiness. I don't know if that exists in the Barrel, but you'll find none of it with me." - For some reason, those words had comforted her. Better terrible truths than kind lies."
The Gang of Six of Crows
Inej
The Wraith - A skilled spy and acrobat
Kaz
Dirtyhands - The cunning leader of the Dregs
Jesper
The Sharpshooter - Quick with guns and quips
Nina
The Heartrender - A powerful Grisha
Matthias
The Convict - A former Fjerdan soldier
Wylan
The Runaway - A demolitions expert
Shadow and Bone
Tv Series - On Netflix
In a world cleaved in two by a massive barrier of perpetual darkness, where unnatural creatures feast on human flesh, a young soldier uncovers a power that might finally unite her country. But as she struggles to hone her power, dangerous forces plot against her. Thugs, thieves, assassins and saints are at war now, and it will take more than magic to survive.