The Lies of Locke Lamora
Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper
Agamedes Consulting / Problems? Solved.
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"When someone does something wrong, don't forget all of the things they did right." ... anonymous
(The Gentleman Bastard Sequence #1)
by Scott Lynch
fantasy
copyright 2006
part read in December 2020
rated 5/10: readable if there's nothing else
An interesting start but after fifty pages I stop reading. Not that it's bad. It just does not interest me.
The world is complex and well detailed. The detail adds nothing to any plot. There are amazing structures from an earlier, long vanished civilisation. So far this is irrelevant, the structures may as well have been rough stone.
The characters are unappealing. Criminals all, not nasty but self-interested in a callous way. The main character is described from a third-person perspective, I have no more than a surface understanding, no idea of meaning nor motivation.
Perhaps all these faults are sorted out in the next 600 pages... perhaps not. I am not interested enough to find out. Not interested? More accurately: I don't like the people so I do not want to read any more.
Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper
Agamedes Consulting / Problems? Solved.
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"When someone does something wrong, don't forget all of the things they did right." ... anonymous
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