Summary: The Sequel To Six Of Crows

Honesty is Not Always the Best Policy
Lying is wrong.
Or so we’ve been told.
In the young adult novel Crooked Kingdom, the sequel to Six of Crows, by Leigh Bardugo, lying is anything but uncommon. The novel starts off in the dark, filthy alleys of the Barrel, the lowliest part of the largest port town of their fantasy world, Ketterdam. In this city, merchs become rich beyond imagining through slyly manipulating trade; inherently, they’re involved with a lot of gambling, risks, and lying- things Kaz Brekker comes to be more than familiar with. As Kaz’s years in the Barrel grew, he developed his adroit ability to scheme and built a name for himself based on pure cruelty, allowing rumors to label him the “bastard of the Barrel.” But, after an especially twisted merch crosses Kaz the wrong way, he leaves him with a deep scar and
I went into this project without considering exactly what I wanted to change, but once I was talking with people I just made claims without thinking very much at all about them. I said that everyday I eat two or more apples a day. On the spot, without the limitation of only saying what was true, my mind came up with something that I thought was truly healthy. Going back to an earlier claim of mine, I think that my mind chose this as my goal because I subconsciously believed that this would evoke a positive and encouraging response from the person I was talking to. Therefore, social pressures to be seen as as good a person as I could be seen forced my mind to quickly select an part of my habits that I believed I was lacking on, eating plenty of fruits, and my mind decided to shield this insecurity with a lie that made me appear better. Ironically, the act of lying allowed me to view my flaws with uncensored honesty. Scared that the person I was talking with would see a flaw of mine, my subconscious decided to turn a weakness into a