The Republic of Thieves (Gentleman Bastard, #3)

by Scott Lynch

The smell in the air was somewhere between wet animal fur and an unwashed torture chamber,

The charm of all of these books is the way Scott Lynch uses humorous metaphors and phrases like this that serve as fantastic, fun descriptors. There are so many of them if I marked and shared them all my feed would start to look somewhat like [insert Scott Lynch like simile here].