

I think that there’s a lot more progress in those relationships because of what they’ve been through. Six of Crows has this escalating level of action and interaction between these characters, whereas Crooked Kingdom, we hit the ground running. And so that’s really where they are in Crooked Kingdom. So you have some people who know each other, but you have some who don’t, and none of them trust each other - with the exclusion of Kaz and Inej, but even that is trust with conditions.Īnd then they go through hell together, which naturally changes the way that they interact with each other, and the way that they think about each other. I think the biggest difference in Crooked Kingdom is, in the beginning of Six of Crows, Kaz is assembling the team.


Did you find much of a difference between writing Six of Crows and writing Crooked Kingdom? Very little time passes between the two books, but almost everybody is in radically different mindsets.
