City of thieves ** SPOILER ALERT**

I finished the book City of thieves  and I actually enjoyed reading it. It was a nice mix of comedy, action, and tragedy. I was also right, form my previous post about how Lev and Kolya's friendship strengthened by the end of the book.
  But it was kind of sad to see the end. Lev got used to Kolya's jokes, even laughed at them sometimes, and in the end, they knew they had each other's backs. Those 4-5 days changed them. But as soon as they got back to Leningrad, they got shot by their own Russian "comrades", since they were thought to be German. Kolya was carrying an MP-40, a German sub-machine gun, which is what made them think he was German, and they came in without warning. Lev was unharmed, But Kolya got shot in the backside. He later died from bleeding to death,
and he and Lev knew he was going to die, even when he was minutes away from the hospital. And while he was dying, he still acted the same, telling his bad, sexual/perverted jokes. He was even trying to toughen it up, saying how it was just a scratch and that he's seen worse wounds. He reminds me of Mercutio from Romeo and Juliet, where he was trying to toughen it up, pretending it was just a scratch. I feel bad for him, since they did find the eggs, and all they had to do was walk over to the mansion, but instead they got shot by their own comrades, after going through so much.