Characters are complex, flawed, and sometimes responsible for some of the worst violence. As with Six of Crows, the content is consistently mature and a better fit for mature teen readers - high schoolers, not middle schoolers. Parents need to know that Leigh Bardugo's Crooked Kingdom, the follow-up to the riveting Six of Crows, is related to her Grisha trilogy, but you can read Six of Crows and this sequel without reading the other series first. People drink champagne at a gambling house, and there's some whiskey and brandy drinking.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide.
They're all teens from the underbelly of society who have had hard lives, so there are plenty of mentions of bars and drinking until drunkenness, especially during gambling. One character works on recovering from a serious drug addiction and asks for the drug often. Plenty of stories of the misfortunes of the main characters in their past include nearly being strangled to death, watching family members die, being beaten working in a brothel and losing connection to your own body while working there, being psychologically tortured as a young soldier, being sold as a slave.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Violence & Scariness in your kid's entertainment guide. A woman falls to her death with talk of another dangled over a ledge, then killed for information. Corpses turn zombie-like or are taken out of morgues. Explosions injure people, and a pandemic causes panic. They are also shot at repeatedly and pelted with knives and throwing stars (one time on a high wire with no net). Main characters take some truly bloody beatings (killing some in the process, including a man with broken nails in his windpipe). A torture scene includes a mallet that almost shatters a leg.
Some gory moments, the worst being a gunshot in an eye socket: "he blast didn't just take her eye but most of the top of her skull." An important character is shot and killed.
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