SuitabookSix of Crows
Leigh Bardugo
- Reading
- Consider reading alongside the child, pausing after especially graphic violence or traumatic revelations. Discuss whether the characters’ coping strategies help or harm them, and allow the reader to skip or defer sections that feel overwhelming.
- Themes
- Found family under pressure: Six characters undertake a dangerous mission while carrying difficult histories and different motives. The book’s stance on this remains unclear.
- Survival and morally difficult choices: The characters operate in a criminal underworld, with greed and revenge presented as surface motives alongside survival and connection. The book leaves its stance open to more than one reading.
- Trauma, exploitation and recovery: Backstories include imprisonment, starvation, forced brothel work, bereavement, beating and addiction-related harm. The book’s stance on this remains unclear.
- Worth knowing
- Pay particular attention to graphic harm, including eye injury, mauling, shootings, burning, corpses and lethal drug experiments. Backstories include imprisonment, starvation, beatings, forced brothel work and bereavement. There is also drinking, kissing, brief nakedness and occasional profanity.