I read The Lies of Locke Lamora because it's one of those really popular debut novels everyone raves about, but I entered with misgivings because it looked like yet another "Hardened street urchin grows up rough on the streets of a medieval fantasy city and turns into a meaner, cleverer bastard than all the other mean, clever bastards" story. I like a bit of grittiness and I like fantasy that's got an edge, but the trend of wallowing in blood and sex and treachery and torture-porn tends to turn me off - I'd like the protagonists to have a few noble qualities and the world itself to be at least a little bit redeemable. I am not really a fan of grimdark fantasies in crapsack worlds. 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. Inverarity A fantasy Mafia/heist novel that is entertaining despite the grimdark.Īn 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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