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

Scott Lynch

Start date: January 14, 2016

Discussion: 2016 Monthly challenges

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Dec 29, 2013 Chessa rated it it was amazing

Shelves: series, sf_fantasy, 5star_2014

Wow, what a fun ride! You can't help but fall in love with every single one of the Gentleman Bastards, and with Locke Lamora in particular. Part SF and part Fantasy (the setting is both strangely Science Fiction, with elements of a mysterious former race of beings, the Elders, that left behind many structures and "elderglass", but also traditional fantasy as well, with it's highly stratified class society of dukes and nobles on down to peasants and beggars). But at its heart this is a mystery st ...more

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Aug 11, 2015 Sarah rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fantasy

First re-read for probably about 8 years. My legendarily terrible memory meant that I'd forgotten almost everything except how much I'd loved this book, so pretty much the entire plot was a complete surprise.

What a fantastically rich world, brilliant characters, intricate heists, almost more fun than should be legal in one novel. (view spoiler) ...more

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Mar 28, 2018 Christine rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This is a difficult one to review. The things I liked were in the four-star range, whereas the things I didn't like so much weren't actively negative, but rather just kind of blah.

What I liked:

- An interesting fantasy world that assertively rejects the hobbits-and-elves framework. This goes for more realism - many of the elements could have taken place in a non-magical Renaissance Venice. But this version of Venice is built on the remnants of a technologically advanced, long-vanished civilizati ...more

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