While there are plenty of flashbacks and backstory, I would still love to see Scott Lynch write a prequel to this someday.

This is a book you can go through very fast.

While the best part of the book is the interaction between the Gentleman Bastards, the organised crime parts are just as interesting, and very well written.

A book that readers in general should enjoy, and not just necessarily fantasy readers. There is plenty of action, tragedy, bloodshed, betrayal and revenge. With a bit of Oliver Twist thrown in.īut make no mistake, this is no comic light-hearted heist tale. Not sure how Scott Lynch pitched this book to his literary agent, but something along the lines of The Sting meets Godfather sounds about right. But overall, this book is about camaraderie among a group of likeable thieves, or gentlemen bastards, as they like to call themselves. Not a typical fantasy story, there is some magic use, and a bit of sci-fi as well. Was a bit apprehensive at first, but ended up loving the style of storytelling. This book has jumped all over my TBR over the last couple of years. 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.' 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.

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. Soon he is infamous as the Thorn of Camorr, and no wealthy noble is safe from his sting. Under his tutelage, Locke grows to lead the Bastards, delightedly pulling off one outrageous confidence game after another. A con artist of extraordinary talent, Chains passes his skills on to his carefully selected 'family' of orphans a group known as the Gentlemen Bastards. But born with a quick wit and a gift for thieving, Locke Lamora has dodged both death and slavery, only to fall into the hands of an eyeless priest known as Chains a man who is neither blind nor a priest. An orphan's life is harsh and often short in the island city of Camorr, built on the ruins of a mysterious alien race.

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