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The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1)

Scott Lynch

Start date: November 2, 2014

Finish date: December 1, 2014

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Nov 21, 2013 Rebekah rated it really liked it

Shelves: genre-book-club, genre-adventure, genre-science-fiction, genre-adult, rating-4, genre-mystery-crime, genre-mystery, genre-science-fiction-fantasy, genre-fantasy-epic-fantasy, series

Okay, I have been reading a lot of really awful (but popular) fantasy since Harry Potter, and hated them all, and then this amazing book comes out.

Okay let's mix a solid Oliver Twist kiddie orphan gang tale with The Godfather with Ocean's 11 and set it all in some fantasy Renaissance type world that reminds me of Venice?! What?! And this works?!

Oh it works. AND it's not ridiculously sexist like a lot of the new fantasy I have tried to read.

Characters are great. Plot is great. I wanted to stay ...more

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Oct 24, 2012 Cora rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: kindle, fantasy, adventure, 1st-in-series, anti-hero, alchemy, lost-in-fire

Locke Lamora runs a gang of con men called the Gentlemen Bastards. Together they pull elaborate cons that target the nobility. When new forces come to town that threaten to destroy everything Locke cares about, he is forced into the con of a life time. I enjoyed reading this debut fantasy novel. The characters were fun anti-heroes that I was routing for the entire book. It took awhile to get used to the author's use of flashbacks and unconventional timeline, but once I did I appreciated how the ...more

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Nov 18, 2014 Nancy rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy

By the end of this book, I was absolutely hooked and it deserved 5 stars, but it was let down a little by what was, in my opinion, a slow beginning. It really took me about the first five chapters to get into it fully. The world created by the author was so complex that it was sometimes difficult to follow, but once I had got my head around Camorr and semi-Venetian feel of the city, I really began to enjoy it. Locke was very likeable because he was flawed and his companions and the lifestyle the ...more

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