POV Shifts in Bardugo's Six of Crows

Six of Crows, a novel by Leigh Bardugo set in a world where certain talented people called Grisha are manipulated, persecuted or enslaved, is a young adult fantasy told from the point of view (primarily) of Kaz Brekker, Inej Ghafa, Nina Zenik, Jesper Fahey, and Matthias Helvar. Wylan Van Eck makes up the sixth “crow” but never has a chapter from his point of view. Additionally, the first and last chapters are from the point of view of characters not involved in the main story and serve almost as prologue and epilogue to the main plotline. In the world of the Grisha, most people are average humans. A small portion of the population have special skills which are lumped into certain categories, such a fabrikators, corporalniks, and others. These individuals are visually indistinguishable from normal people. The various characters in Six of Crows come from vastly different backgrounds, both familial and cultural, as well as different ideologies. That said, they are all currently similarly…