I am certainly no fan of the numbered scenes in chapters. You can imagine this taking a lot of getting used to. Number one will be a scene start, number two will be from a few hours ago, and number three is back at the time of number one and so on. Each chapter is also divided into numbered scenes that move back and forth in timeline. And each chapter is followed by an interlude. I think what confused me at first was the writing style. And it was not quite what I had expected. But a buddy read with Dina prompted me to finally give it a go. I have a tendency to be disappointed by hyped up books. And what I’ve heard, sass and thieves, sounded good but still I stayed away from it even though it was on my shelf. Gentleman Bastards and its first book The Lies of Locke Lamora is one of those. Caught up in a murderous game, Locke and his friends will find both their loyalty and their ingenuity tested to the breaking point as they struggle to stay alive…Īs a fantasy reader there tend to be a few series you hear a lot about on that you have to read it. The less attention anyone pays to them, the better! But a deadly mystery has begun to haunt the ancient city of Camorr, and a clandestine war is threatening to tear the city’s underworld, the only home the Gentlemen Bastards have ever known, to bloody shreds. Locke and company are con artists in an age where con artistry, as we understand it, is a new and unknown style of crime. All of Locke’s gains are strictly for himself and his tight-knit band of thieves, the Gentlemen Bastards. And while Locke does indeed steal from the rich (who else, pray tell, would be worth stealing from?), the poor never see a penny of it. He certainly didn’t invite the rumors that swirl around his exploits, which are actually confidence games of the most intricate sort. Slightly built, unlucky in love, and barely competent with a sword, Locke Lamora is, much to his annoyance, the fabled Thorn. The other half believe him to be a foolish myth. Half the city believes him to be a legendary champion of the poor. The Thorn of Camorr is said to be an unbeatable swordsman, a master thief, a ghost that walks through walls.
Book: The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard 1) by Scott Lynch
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