With a woodcut portrait on the back of the title-page (apparently of the dedicatee King Henri II, though copied in other books as a portrait of the author), large woodcuts of the skeletons of a man and a bird on pp. Printed title-page showing a world map, portrait of Sebastian Münster on verso, [24], 1237 pages; 14 double-pages woodcut maps, 3 folding plates and 38 double-page woodcuts maps, and upwards of 900 illustrations in the text including maps, plans, town views, portraits and natural history subjects; woodcut printer's device on verso of last leaf. First published in 1544, it went through thirty-five editions and was published in five languages, making it one of the most important books of the Reformation period. Broody type, doesn’t laugh at jokes, ken-doll hair albeit a little longer, outstandingly handsome, has abs.

The Crooked Kingdom has an intricate gold foiled design on the cover and spine featuring lots of different iconography from the book as well as black sprayed page edges , and Six of Crows has red foil and page edges. The Grisha's worldbuilding is very engaging, even though we're thrown in without context; I remember thinking that I would have appreciated a proper map of Ketterdam, and then we GOT a good map in book two! The intentional gaps in narrative are anxiety-causing at times, but things did fall in to place in a most satisfying way later on. I BRed a second reread of this (yes, I've read it three times, shut up) with Amy, whose review you should definitely check out! I think I initially four-starred A Court of Thorns and Roses despite not liking it at all just to seem Hip and Down With The Teens.Inej background story is lovey, her physical appearance sounds both breathtaking and unique, and her set of skills are completely bad-ass. They have to break in an impenetrable fortress, free an important prisoner and try not to kill each other.

it’s a brilliant thing if the author can craft six characters and never make them feel repetitive or similar to each other, making each character have their own thoughts and voices — but leigh bardugo did just that and i couldn’t be happier about that. Cosmographia not only contained the latest maps and views of many well-known cities, but also included an encyclopedic amount of detail about the known and unknown world, and was undoubtedly one of the most widely read books of its time. However if Six of Crows isn't my top pick for the year, it will without a doubt at least be in the top five. How did Leigh managed to give us such a naughty character, make him have a limp, "force" him to wear gloves all the time, and still managed to have me swoon over him was beyond me. When Zen master Ikkyu Sojun (1394-1481) was appointed headmaster of the great temple at Kyoto, he lasted nine days before denouncing the rampant hypocrisy he saw among the monks there.But when the critics of this book say that the characters should be older, then we're "attention seekers" bah. once again, came for the kaz brekker hype; stayed for the jurda crazy grisha, a heist of the century, all the nina/matthias tension, the scheming face, the ‘my ghost would not associate with your ghost’ talk, and of course, the kaz brekker hype. Als er eines Tages ein Jobangebot erhält, das ihm unermesslichen Reichtum bescheren würde, weiß Kaz zwei Dinge: Erstens wird dieses Geld den Tod seines Bruders rächen. A New York Times Bestseller A Los Angeles Times Bestseller An Indie Next List Book This title has Common Core connections. SoC is a novel with six main characters, depending on how you look at it five plus perspectives, breath-taking flashbacks, seamless world building, and twists that will make your tits drop.