The Lies of Locke Lamora
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| Rating | : | 4.69 (877 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0029XKX0I |
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| Number of Pages | : | 505 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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Finally! a new, fresh take on Fantasy novels!! Suspenseful and hilarious at the same time!! As other reviewers have noted, this book is very well written. The twists in the plot are some of the most endearing qualities of this book. You really think at the end of a chapter that the book is going to go a certain direction only to find out in the next chapter's introductory paragraphs that you are dead wrong in your assumptions. Also, as another reviewer stated, this is a Medieval Ocean's. Maria A Guglielmo said Great fun and a thrilling book!. A rollicking and lively tale, with world-building so complex yet so effortless, The Lies of Locke Lomora is just plain fun. It's sort of Ocean's Eleven meets Machiavelliwith long-vanished aliens thrown in. The hero is a former urchin turned master con-man, and he and his fellow Gentleman Bastards navigate an alternate world based on the Renaissance Italian city states. I was listening to the Audi. The Literary Llama said All the stars! A new favorite.. FORMAT: AudiobookRATING: â
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/ All the many many many stars!REVIEW: Okay, I think this will actually be a very short review, basically because there are only so many ways for me to say that I loved this book before it gets annoying and redundant.I listened to the audio version (although I also bought the paperback too, but just never got around to it) as narrated by the
An orphan's life is harsh—and often short—in the island city of Camorr, built on the ruins of a mysterious alien race. Known as the Gray King, he is slowly killing Capa Barsavi's most trusted men—and using Locke as a pawn in his plot to take control of Camorr's underworld. But there is someone in the shadows more powerful—and more ambitious—than Locke has yet imagined. With a bloody coup under way threatening to destroy everyone and everything that holds meaning in his mercenary life, Locke vows to beat the Gray King at his own brutal game—or die trying.. Soon he is infamous as the Thorn of Camorr, and no wealthy noble is safe from his sting. Passing themselves off as petty thieves, the brilliant Locke and his tightly knit band of light-fingered brothers have fooled even the criminal underworld's most feared ruler, Capa Barsavi. Under his tutelage, Locke grows to lead the Bastards, delightedly pulling off one outrageous confidence game after another. But bor
As in any good caper novel, the plot is littered with obvious and not-so-obvious obstacles, including the secret police of Camorr's legendary Spider and the mysterious assassinations of gang leaders by the newly arrived Gray King. All rights reserved. The villain holds the best moral justification of any of the players. (July)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Locke's resilience and wit give the book the tragicomic air of a traditional picaresque, rubbery ethics and all. The only drawback is that the realistic fullness of the background tends to accentuate the unreality of the melodramatic foreground. . From Publishers Weekly Life imitates art and art scams life in Lynch's debut, a picaresque fantasy that chronicles the career of Locke Lamora&md