Say that the entire book is full of them, but this is no time for jokes. Lemora is smart and fun – yes, fun, that element that gets smothered beneath overly complicated world-building and hard magic systems. It is not your typical sword and sorcery, and certainly not a derivative YA dystopian romp. This book had everything I’ve been searching for in a fantasy book. Plot points pay off, the characters grow, and the world always seems deep and rich. Think Oliver Twist’s Artful Dodger with a fouler mouth and a sharper mind – place him in a Mervin Peak-like setting – sprinkle with elaborate cons. They are on edge…Barsavi suspects everyone…and Locke Lemora, “the Thorn of Camorr”, is not as uninvolved as he’d like everyone to believe.
Now every cutpurse and brigand and thief master are in danger. So good that they are trying to out steal the other thieves of the city.īut there is a spanner in the works: a mysterious figure known as the Grey King has his knife out for Capa Barsavi (the Godfather-like figure of the Camorri underworld). They are confidence tricksters and they are good at their jobs. He and his fellow Gentleman Bastards have put their checkered pasts behind them so that they may forge their checkered future. Locke Lamora is an orphan in the city of Camorr. a great swashbuckling yarn of a novel.Overview Lynch immediately establishes himself as a gifted and fearless storyteller, unafraid of comparisons to Silverberg and Jordan, not to mention David Liss and even Dickens.”-Booklist (starred review)
“A true genre bender, at home on almost any kind of fiction shelf. Locke’s wit and audacity endear him to victims and bystanders alike.”-The Seattle Times
“A unique fantasy milieu peopled by absorbing, colorful characters. If you have read it, you should probably read it again.”-Patrick Rothfuss, New York Times bestselling author of The Name of the Wind “Right now, in the full flush of a second reading, I think The Lies of Locke Lamora is probably in my top ten favorite books ever. Faced with a bloody coup that threatens to destroy everyone and everything that holds meaning in his mercenary life, Locke vows to beat the enemy at his own brutal game-or die trying. But in the shadows lurks someone still more ambitious and deadly. As leader of the band of light-fingered brothers known as the Gentleman Bastards, Locke is soon infamous, fooling even the underworld’s most feared ruler. But young Locke Lamora dodges death and slavery, becoming a thief under the tutelage of a gifted con artist. Scott Lynch’s first novel, The Lies of Locke Lamora, exports the suspense and wit of a cleverly constructed crime caper into an exotic realm of fantasy, and the result is engagingly entertaining.”-The Times (London)Īn orphan’s life is harsh-and often short-in the mysterious island city of Camorr.
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