Rating: 5/5 
 ***Minor spoilers, spoilers for book 1*** 
 In Six of Crows, we are told the story of how Kaz Brekker and his gang were hired by Jan Van Eck to break out someone from one of the most secure prisons in the kingdom for a large sum of money that he never planned to pay to them in the first place. Learning that they were duped, they're now lying low, plotting their revenge on Jan Van Eck. They're not happy living in a graveyard, avoiding being recognized because their faces are plastered all over Ketterdam. They certainly aren't happy to be harbouring a boy that everyone in the kingdom wants for themselves - Kuwei Yul-Bo, who they believe knows the secrets of jurda parem. This book tells the story of the aftermath of breaking out Kuwei, as Kaz and his group come up with a way to get their revenge, get their money, and get Kuwei to safety. 
 This book was a ride from start to finish, and I'm not just saying that. This was far better than Six of Crows and the Grisha series. Throughout the book, you're given enough information to know what's going on and to be able to follow along and enjoy it, but not enough to fully understand everything. Before getting into the plot, I love how diverse this book is. It's not a bunch of skinny white people who are doing everything. We get a variety of races and sexual orientations, and it didn't feel like they were just thrown in there to satisfy the readers (like those shows/books/movies with that one coloured person as if that's what diversity means). 
 There's so much to talk about in this book. The plot, the character development, the tears, you name it. But the thing that I noticed and enjoyed the most was the dialogue. At some points it had me laughing, some points it had me crying, and more than a few times I was sending pictures to my friends showing them how hilarious stuff was. Bardugo has become a dialogue master and I love it so much. It was a nice bit of comic relief, but it also felt real. You can't have a group of people and expect them to speak so stiffly to each other all the time. They had arguments, they teased each other, they planned with each other, and they challenged each other. It was realistic, amusing, and amazing. 
 Overall, this is the best book I've read in a while. It had my mind going all over the place trying to predict what would happen next, it had me from laughing to in tears to holding my breath multiple times. Something particularly brutal happened near the end of the book that had me trying not to draw my family's attention with the sound of me crying. For fans of the series, it may be reassuring to know that the ending (at least to me) suggested that there would either be another book in this series, or a spinoff series. If that's the case, I'm looking forward to it! I would 100% recommend this book/series to anybody, pick it up when you get the chance!