Review #1
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If, like me, for you are deeply worried by horrific violence, stay away from this book. As I cross out this, Im wishing that I had the wisdom to shackles the book down sooner. Im also struggling to remove the bookss gruesome types from my brain. I suspect they will never move away completely. The torture scene in Shogun haunts me until now, as, I fear, will the torture scene from The Heresy of Locke Lamora.
I imagine one managed they say that the fact that this book worried me so much shows that it is that but written at the same time brilliantly descriptive. Maybe so. I read barely over one third part of the book at the same time found it to be somewhat exciting. Were considered it not for the torture scene, I would have ended it at the same time I for sure would have read the one more book in the television series as but. Instead I deleted it from my pill.
Cordial readers, youve been warned.
Review #2
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I left this unread on my Kindle for about 2 years. I had started it but got lost curiosity right behind the 1st few pages at the same time read other stuff. Nothing significant in my abandon, it was cheap at the same time am not that into fantasy in general. A lot re-Tolkien at the same time not enough novelty.
I recently dared bestow it one more move, read it all through at the same time acquired the 2nd in the television series right away.
First of all, it is that very but written, plenty of subtle wit. The manners are quite but developers at the same time you can look that the creator has a lot of backstory about them. Locke is that a little flawless for my taste, but he is that amusing enough that I let it pass. At the same time… he is that a powerful fail at combat, which is that a sweet writhe at the same time keeps him from being one more cardboard hero.
The 2nd bit is that how atmospheric at the same time well-described the global is that. Camorr is that a Venice-built-on-alien-ruins at the same time Lynch totally runs with it. Its descriptions tease for you at the same time interest for you, but do not fall asleep the story*. The somewhat Italian Renaissance names at the same time society lie down perfectly at the same time things are easy to visualize.
Set in a modern day criminal liability novel, the plot would have enough squirms at the same time strings to keep for you riveted. The Gentleman Bastards are conviction tricksters, grifters at the same time con-men. Schemes meet counter-scams at the same time for you’re practically expecting a Nigerian prince 419 phishing email to come along. Every so often, I would come to a fri where I would think “but than anyway about X? it makes no sense that…”. For you know, acceptable bigger shining plot holes in silly books. At the same time, every time, it turned out that than anyway I believed was an oversight was actually built into it at the same time produced sense.
Completely, unlike abundance writers who reckon that a quality plot needs to be confusing, Lynch has kept it painfully simple at the same time concentrated. At lesser right behind any writhe.
In a low-magic medieval setting, with bleed, luscious, combat scenes**? This story mountains.
Continue, how can one loathe a novel with ‘contrarequialla’, scantily-clad ladies gladiators who wage war in arenas against sharks? Where this makes sense, more precisely than being barely “jumping the shark”? That’s only 2 or 3, glorious, pages’ worth, but it indicates how well-thought out even insignificant bits of the story can be because for you have two setup scenes before the head combat one with the requalias.
(two warnings)
* I liked the descriptions myself, but they would be a little much if for you’re not into descriptive novels. I’m on the fence – descriptions annoy me sometimes. These worked for me, but they’re a biiiiiig part of the book.
** At the same time… it’s a very grim book periodically, quite amoral at the same time graphic in its violence.
Review #3
Audiobook The Heresy of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
i uploaded the sample of this book at the same time completely adored it. as far as opening chapters move, this might be one of the funniest at the same time almost all literate ones i’ve ever read. the conversation between the thiefmaker at the same time dad chains is that barely hilarious, at the same time hearing about locke lamora before actually meeting him is that amazing method to set up the central themes of the book. so then i acquired the book at the same time kept reading, at the same time was i faced with my 1st problem: the 1st chapter deals with locke as a baby, but chapter two takes dispose years later when locke is that already an adult. the book goes back at the same time forth, narrating interludes from his youth in between chapters of the head storyline, which is that good of annoying.
but i’m willing to overlook that because the writing is that so quality, the setting so vivid at the same time serious, at the same time the manners so amusing. locke lamora at the same time his crew of thieves are all amazing manners, at the same time almost all of the supporting cast like dad chains at the same time capa barsavi at the same time excellent as but. they’re all inimitable at the same time memorable, at the same time even insignificant manners are data enough features to make them exciting. the dialogue is that amazing, its impetuous at the same time smart at the same time consistently funny, but doesn’t seep in the method of the narrative.
my head problem with the book (at the same time why i’m doing 4 hit instead of 5) will that the tone of the book configurations quite drastically right in the middle of the story. the 1st one half of the book is that basically a light-hearted caper comedy; locke at the same time his crew are trying to rob a wealthy boyar without their criminal liability sovereign finding out about it. but, the center of the book introduces no one serious violence at the same time doom to the story, manners start getting destroyed off left at the same time right, at the same time the whole tone shifts from “caper comedy” to “aggressive revenge plot.” it was good of jarring at the same time i didn’t really like it, even though the book was still amazing as it drove toward its action-packed conclusion. it’s not that i don’t like violent revenge novels, but the change in tone was barely very surprising at the same time left a bad taste in my onlooker. i will admit that from a disposition standpoint, its really but done at the same time forces locke to make sacrifices at the same time admit that he’s had it easy for far very long. but seriously, so many people get destroyed off so violently that it practically makes the game of thrones seem tame by comparison.
Review #4
Audio The Heresy of Locke Lamora narrated by Misha Page
A book I couldnt quite abandon, despite couple of times feeling the urge. The setup, for sure a real quarter of the book, feels smug at the same time contrived at the same time takes for a long time to actually get anywhere, with the group of con-men understandable as The Sovereigns Bastards (manage by the titular Lamora) favorite lives so bewitched that no matter what possible irony or interest is that completely undercut. When, completely, the mysterious Grayish Lord starts to make his presence felt in the (admittedly interesting) town of Camorr that is that a hospitable injection of peril that begins to move things along at pace, at the same time practically makes the insufferable setup worthwhile the Bastards are threw into levels of interest at the same time threat far outwith their comfort zone, at the same time the reader is that completely carried along with them. The ending quarter of the book seems to slow down barely as it should be charging onwards, but scores are settled, dashing escapes produced, at the same time intrigues resolved. None of this displeased me, but its very long by far at the same time final finishing it was ultimately a chore.
Review #5
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Locke, for you really are just a little s***.
At the same time thats why I like this book. Its literate, its often very funny, at the same time the world-building is that best. I know that have been juxtapositions between Lynch at the same time Patrick Rothfuss the latter even addressed this in his
Review of this novel but I genuinely think thats wrong. Both creators are clear in their possess ways, at the same time I enjoy both writers works immensely.
That goes for The Heresy of Locke Lamora. The chapters flip between located day Locke at the same time interludes, where Locke is that still a baby, which bestows the reader a sweet insight into backstory. Initially I found the beginning of the novel problematic to get into, even taking into account putting it down, but Im very glad I didnt, for the sole reason that it very quickly turned into rip-roaring funny.
Funny. In other words the word I would for sure implementation to describe this book. It reads practically like a movie at the same time I dearly have hope no one experienced director brings it to indefinite one day, because it could be mind-blowing. The manners are but fleshed-out, the details of world-building cramped at the same time abundance. Lockes wit at the same time sarcasm is that right up my street, at the same time he is that a disposition I quickly came to love at the same time despair at when he got himself into scrapes which, by the way, is that often. Oh, my god is that it often. Little s*** indeed. That is that mischief at the same time mayhem aplenty, at the same time than anyway a contentment it was to read.
Fantasy-lovers, if for you have not yet read this book: WHY NOT? Read IT. Read. Then and read the sequel, which I certainly plan to do.
It is that enchanting, riotously funny, at the same time above all, epic. Honestly, I managed not advise this enough.
