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In reading the reviews for this book a lot of people compared it as Ocean's Eleven for fantasy which nearly turned me off to trying it. I found the movies to be simplistic and corny. For $5 on Kindle with all the great reviews I figured what do I have to lose?
I'm glad I did. Calling this Ocean's Eleven of fantasy is such an insult to the book. The book was so well written with great phrasing, clever banter, good twists, great characters and great pacing. I loved Lynch's writing style.
I'll defi ...more
I'm glad I did. Calling this Ocean's Eleven of fantasy is such an insult to the book. The book was so well written with great phrasing, clever banter, good twists, great characters and great pacing. I loved Lynch's writing style.
I'll defi ...more
This should have been a four or maybe five star read; however, the book gets in its own way.
There is much to like:
• at its core, it’s a revenge novel and as it should be, revenge has a high price tag
• It is also a great heist story with all the complications tossed in to make it exciting
• the characters are likable, especially Locke who is Han Solo meets Danny Ocean
• the setting is a vaguely Italian Fantasy Medieval world
• Magic is rare, deadly and remains mysterious
• The bad guys aren’t Tolk ...more
There is much to like:
• at its core, it’s a revenge novel and as it should be, revenge has a high price tag
• It is also a great heist story with all the complications tossed in to make it exciting
• the characters are likable, especially Locke who is Han Solo meets Danny Ocean
• the setting is a vaguely Italian Fantasy Medieval world
• Magic is rare, deadly and remains mysterious
• The bad guys aren’t Tolk ...more
I was really looking forward to this book. I thought it would be fast paced, fun, and witty. I got 200 pages in and I just couldn't continue. It is the opposite of fast paced. Everytime something happens a flashback jars you from the present. The flashbacks are frequent and don't really have pertinent information. At 200 pages I felt the book could have been almost over but there was still more than 500 pages left to go. So much dry filler it reminded me of Farseer or Wheel of Time. I hate DNFin
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Nov 04, 2015
Martin Christopher
rated it
really liked it
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Jun 29, 2017
Jacob Blanchet
marked it as to-read
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Shelves:
owned-in-the-queue
