Boring Six-Of-Crows-Copy

I expected this book to be similar to Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo, but it's TOO MUCH. I know Leigh Bardugo doesn't have a patent of this trope of a teenager underdog gangster boss, but Wesley is such a copy of Kaz: His behavior, his reputation, his status, his style, his look, Tattoos etc. He is secretly in love with a morally girl who wants to leave the city. And he is the boss of a gang in a deadly city that is so much like Ketterdam as well. And we have a conflict because of new dangerous magic.

If you want to write a story with this atmosphere or trope, you'll have to make your own story, period. I mean, sure, Christopher Paolini isn't the only one who is allowed to write about dragon riders as well, but if I'd write a story about dragons, I wouln'd copy Eragon's or Saphira's looks and character traits. I would do my own.

Sadly Alexandra Christo seems to copy so much that I couldn't enjoy the book. Also it was boring in my opinion because I didn't care at all because I didn't like the characters. They just annoyed me, I couldn't help it. They always talked about how dangerous everything is and that the will probably die, but nothing seems to happen unless talking.

I bought this book because I was listening to To Kill A Kingdom and I absolutely loved it, so I wanted more by this author. In To Kill A Kingdom the sarcasm and sassiness is what makes the characters cool and lovely, but in this book it didn't work. It felt like she tried to make the characters sarcastic but for me it was rather annoying than funny. They didn't feel like a team or friends as if they had no connection / chemistry.

There were a lot of unnecessary writing about ... not really their thoughts but what kind of people they are (for example something like "he wasn't a man who cared much about other people's feelings. You'd only survive if you'd be selfish"). I actually like those passages but it was TOO MUCH. In the beginning of a book those writings are great to introduce characters but Alexandra Christo didn't stop. It was THE WHOLE BOOK.

However the writing style wasn't bad. But often my brain switched off and wasn't listening anymore because of boring unnecessary descriptions. Also very often I wished there were more show never tell.

I liked the choice that for every POV there is a different narrator. They did a great job. But yeah, I don't like this book because it's too similar to Six of Crows but with (for me) dislikeable characters.

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