4.5 
 LOL and it's finished almost six months after I started!!! Honestly, all but 50~ pages were (eagerly) read in the past two days, so it wasn't because I didn't like this book that it took me such a darn long time to finish it. I initially rated this as a four, but after I reflected on all the stuff I liked about the book, I think I should rate it higher. This book didn't knock my socks off, but it was pretty damn good. 
 Anyway, I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It can feel a little slow-paced at times, but because there is a lot of setting up and things going on at once haha. But I liked the world Bardugo built and enjoyed her characters. They're the classic group of people who make you scratch your head as to why they would associate with each other but seem to fit well together. There were themes that seemed to echo the Holocaust--the main one being the Fjerdans having soldiers dedicate their lives to killing a certain type of person (Grisha) and justify it with some twisted purity logic. I loved the heist plot and all the cons that went on (even though there were definitely deus ex machina scenes, but the author can get away with that because there are people with powers in this book anyway). There wasn't a lot of romance, which was understandable seeing as they've got bigger things to worry about, but there was enough to keep me sated (and the romances are slightly doomed, which makes them more interesting). There was diversity in the book too!! A disabled protagonist, a WOC protagonist, legit flirting between two male protagonists, a (pretty) female protagonist who's curvy, and it passes the Bechdel test! 
 I think I liked this more than the books from her previous series (not that those weren't good). I look forward to more from Bardugo! 
 Also, I could totally see this as being a great movie.