Loved itThe Lies of Lamora by Scott Lynch does not get enough praise for the pros and the setting. at the heart of the background to all of that, the stage on which those characters play is some really phenomenal pros.
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The Lies of Locke Lamora (2001)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive Best book ever
- ISBN:
- 9780553588941
- Length:
- 512 pages
Genres: fantasy, young adult
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Loved itI absolutely loved what I read. I got about 60 pages in. I was amazed with the dialogue and how I could just sit there and listen to such crafty and clever dialogue, characters talking back and forth.
Loved itThere's witty banter, there's heartbreak, there's mystery, there's a world that I just could not get enough of around every corner as the books go on, one after another.
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Loved itit's an action-packed book and it felt like watching a movie where I was just there and experiencing it and I don't have a lot of thoughts after the fact still giving it a four
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Loved itthis is this is such a special book ... I felt like the writing here was ingenious
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Loved itso this is story that I love for a lot of reasons I love that the characters are all very morally ambiguous. the character work as everyone says is fantastic I really love lock lamora as well as his friend Jacques and you have this Bromance between the two of them that really carries the books
Loved itthe setting the characters the writing style is so good i love this fantasy series so much and it's for sure one of my all-time favorites
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Loved itit was beautifully written the prose in this is like none other that i've read it's nothing like crazy but it just reads smooth like butter it's just it's just beautiful i really enjoyed it love the humor as well
Loved italso another returning fave is locked from their lives of Locke Lamora so I'm not going to talk about him a lot because I talked about him last year but I adore him and I continued to read this series
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Loved itLocke is a character that we meet in the first called Lamora and he doesn't really know his family he's an orphan but he gets adopted by father chains who is a preacher of some kind and he gets brought into this thieving guild essentially you plan on with these crazy heists and crazy things that they end up executing with superlative ingenuity and they are very clever books these ones
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Loved itI absolutely loved this book in the series that thus far it is amazing Scott L's writing it's astounding it's humorous the way he has so many different plot points together
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