Micah’s Reviews > Six of Crows > Status Update

I feel like it would take a lot of thinking and writing to put it into words, but I figured out why I don’t like Matthias. This story is heavily political, if the crows fail, they risk a war. Matthias’ people are at best complacent in genocide and at worst actively participating in it. You can’t cure that kind of cruelty with a romance b-plot. I find him interesting now, but that has to be said

As much as I love where this is going, I have to get this off my chest. I hate Matthias. He’s an entitled dickwad with seemingly no respect for himself or others. My opinions on Nina are getting worse by her being sympathetic towards him. “Oooh he’s irreplaceable” can they not find anyone else from his home country who’s less of an ass? If this man died I’d feel no pity because he has NO redeeming qualities 😭

I love Kaz, he’s a badass and a weirdo and a schemer and those are the best things a character can be

I hate Matthias, he acts like every broody Gale-wannabe who’s ever made me roll my eyes

The one perk of Matthias existing is now we can see how stupid his archetype of broody bad boy looks from others’ POVs (very)

I hope Matthias fucking dies

Okay, that might be a little harsh. I fear I’m missing some of the context around why he’s here. But he seems so insufferable. These people saved his life and he’s grumbling about patriotism like a total dork. Not to mention Nina clearly likes him and he won’t shut up about killing her, so either she’s a total fool or he just sucks. Nina get better taste!

The prose is beautiful but all I can think is “who tf are these people”
Who is a Matthias and why is he relevant. We have a hostage to rescue from an inescapable prison and we’re doing a secondary prison break for this traumatized angry guy?

Okay, I like where this is going but I am having a hard time keeping track of the characters… this is part of an extended universe so maybe they’re from other books?

I’ve been so hungry for a book that actually lets itself be an action/political drama/crime drama/ANYTHING drama as more than just the backdrop for something less interesting. This is exciting. This is solid. There are actual motives and secret backstories being alluded to, and to top it all off, there’s no love triangle B plot distracting me from the badassery!

Delicious. Finally some good action