This is one book that I know I tried to read before, and I do believer that I did get further this time. The concept for this book is a good one, orphaned kids taken in by Thief master and trained to be a thief. But for some reason the changing time when Locke was a boy and when he was a young man just became to much for me to keep track of and I lost interest in the book. Though since this is a style of book I do like I am sure I will pick it up again from the library and try to read it again.
- Pub. Date: June 2007
- Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
- Format: Mass Market Paperback, 736pp
- Sales Rank: 42,097
- Lexile: 940L What’s This?
- ISBN-13: 9780553588941
- ISBN: 055358894X
- Edition Description: Reprint
Synopsis
In this stunning debut, author Scott Lynch delivers the wonderfully thrilling tale of an audacious criminal and his band of confidence tricksters. Set in a fantastic city pulsing with the lives of decadent nobles and daring thieves, here is a story of adventure, loyalty, and survival that is one part Robin Hood, one part Ocean’s Eleven, and entirely enthralling.
Publishers Weekly
Life imitates art and art scams life in Lynch’s debut, a picaresque fantasy that chronicles the career of Locke Lamora orphan, thief and leader of the Gentlemen Bastards from the time the Thiefmaker sells Locke to the faking Eyeless Priest up to Locke’s latest con of the nobility of the land of Camorr. 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. Locke’s resilience and wit give the book the tragicomic air of a traditional picaresque, rubbery ethics and all. The villain holds the best moral justification of any of the players. Lynch provides plenty of historical and cultural information reminiscent of new weirdists Steven Erikson and China Mieville, if not quite as outre. The only drawback is that the realistic fullness of the background tends to accentuate the unreality of the melodramatic foreground. (July) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
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