I really don't even know where to begin, as I JUST finished this book ten minutes ago and am still a little emotional, but I'll try to make this review make some sense... 
 The characters we met in Six of Crows are not quite as easygoing as they once were. They had once managed to push past their rough pasts and eke out a living, but Crooked Kingdom finds them all having to really confront their pasts and their issues and deal with losses and failures. We find our characters still dealing with the events that had unfolded in the first book, and trying to scrap together a way to survive. It's sometimes easy to forget that this is a group of people that have had to deal with so many dark times and have failed and been beaten so many times, but still gotten back up again and survived despite terrible odds. 
 Again in this book, like the first, the characters are so vibrant and interesting that they are very capable of carrying the story even when the external action slows. It was so hard to watch everything they are going through without getting extremely worried at every turn. 
 It was great, and a fitting end to the story, although there is maybe one thing I would probably change....