![]() ![]() 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. ![]()
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