Crooked Kingdom tackles so many difficult topics like slavery, addiction and oppression. Here comes the review with the spoilers. So Matthias death. I don't know, but for some reason I just loved it. Like the sadness that the readers would feel has really been well thought out by Leigh Bardugo, not to mention the fact that Matthias was shot by a boy who literally was the younger unaware of the reality version of himself just makes it ten times better. The roller coaster of emotions is just phenomenal