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In his highly acclaimed debut, The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch took us on an adrenaline-fueled adventure with a band of daring thieves led by con artist extraordinaire Locke Lamora. Now Lynch brings back his outrageous hero for a caper so death-defying, nothing short of a miracle will pull it off.
After a brutal battle with the underworld that nearly destroyed him, Locke and his trusted sidekick, Jean, fled the island city of their birth and landed on the exotic shores of Tal Verrar to nurse their wounds. But even at this westernmost edge of civilization, they can’t rest for long—and are soon back to what they do best: stealing from the undeserving rich and pocketing the proceeds for themselves.
This time, however, they have targeted the grandest prize of all: the Sinspire, the most exclusive and heavily guarded gambling house in the world. Its nine floors attract the wealthiest clientele—and to rise to the top, one must impress with good credit, amusing behavior…and excruciatingly impeccable play. For there is one cardinal rule, enforced by Requin, the house’s cold-blooded master: it is death to cheat at any game at the Sinspire.
Brazenly undeterred, Locke and Jean have orchestrated an elaborate plan to lie, trick, and swindle their way up the nine floors…straight to Requin’s teeming vault. Under the cloak of false identities, they meticulously make their climb—until they are closer to the spoils than ever.
But someone in Tal Verrar has uncovered the duo’s secret. Someone from their past who has every intention of making the impudent criminals pay for their sins. Now it will take every ounce of cunning to save their mercenary souls. And even that may not be enough.…
PRAISE FOR SCOTT LYNCH
“A bright new voice in the fantasy genre.”—George R. R. Martin
Red Seas Under Red Skies
“Lynch hasn’t merely imagined a far-off world, he’s created it, put it all down on paper—the smells, the sounds, the people, the feel of the place. The novel is a virtuoso performance, and sf/fantasy fans will gobble it up.”—Booklist (starred review)
“Red Seas Under Red Skies firmly proves that Scott Lynch isn’t a one-hit wonder. . . . It’ll only be a matter of time before Scott Lynch is mentioned in the same breath as George R. R. Martin and Steven Erikson.”—Fantasy Book Critic
“Grand, grandiose, grandiloquent . . . No critic is likely to fault Lynch in his overflowing qualities of inventiveness, audacious draftsmanship, and sympathetic characterization.”—Locus
“The kind of witty romp that reminds you exactly how much fun heroic fantasy is supposed to be.”—SFX
The Lies of Locke Lamora
“Right now, in the full flush of a second reading, I think The Lies of Locke Lamora is probably in my top ten favorite books ever. Maybe my top five. If you haven’t read it, you should. If you have read it, you should probably read it again.”—Patrick Rothfuss, New York Times bestselling author of The Name of the Wind
From the Hardcover edition.
- Sales Rank: #18792 in Books
- Brand: Lynch, Scott
- Published on: 2008-07-29
- Released on: 2008-07-29
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.90" h x 1.30" w x 4.20" l, .95 pounds
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 760 pages
From Publishers Weekly
Like its roguish protagonists, Lynch's colorful sequel to 2006's The Lies of Locke Lamora is charming, unpredictable and fast on its feet and stands surprisingly well on its own given its convoluted plot. Initially poised to rob the Sinspire, the notoriously thief-proof casino where the penalty for cheating is death, Locke and his partner, Jean, are unwillingly sidetracked into joining and then leading a pirate crew, swindling their way across the sea as they had previously done on land. The cinematic influences on Lynch's fantasy setting are evident, the borrowing is mostly ingenious and the prose frequently enthralls, but tone and pacing suffer from odd inconsistencies. A handful of dark moments clash uncomfortably with the overall devil-may-care atmosphere. Most frustrating of all is the handling of key secondary character Ezri Delmastro, who shines too briefly as an energetic romantic interest for Jean. The ending promises at least one more installment, but fans may be unhappy if the saga strays too far from its amiable roots. (Aug.)
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From Booklist
*Starred Review* The science-fiction caper novel constitutes a small genre to begin with (Keith Laumer and Harry Harrison may be its best-known names), but Lynch added something entirely new to it with his debut, The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006). That novel, which told the story of a young boy taken under the wing of a master thief, was set on a distant planet but at a stage in the planet's history roughly equivalent to our own pirate age. Now Locke, the talented boy who became a world-class thief, returns with a caper so big it defies all reason—to penetrate the vault of the Sinspire, the most protected casino on the planet, and take its contents. If the first novel had undercurrents of Oliver Twist, this one is more in the vein of Ocean's Eleven or The Sting: fast paced, colorful, funny, with a fiendishly intricate plot containing plenty of right-angle turns. Locke and his partner, Jean, trade banter like Redford and Newman and work their light-fingered magic with charm and panache. Lynch hasn't merely imagined a far-off world, he's created it, put it all down on paper—the smells, the sounds, the people, the feel of the place. The novel is a virtuoso performance, and sf/fantasy fans will gobble it up, though they'll have to fight with caper novel aficionados for every crumb. Pitt, David
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PRAISE FOR SCOTT LYNCH
“A bright new voice in the fantasy genre.”—George R. R. Martin
Red Seas Under Red Skies
“Lynch hasn’t merely imagined a far-off world, he’s created it, put it all down on paper—the smells, the sounds, the people, the feel of the place. The novel is a virtuoso performance, and sf/fantasy fans will gobble it up.”—Booklist (starred review)
“Red Seas Under Red Skies firmly proves that Scott Lynch isn’t a one-hit wonder. . . . It’ll only be a matter of time before Scott Lynch is mentioned in the same breath as George R. R. Martin and Steven Erikson.”—Fantasy Book Critic
“Grand, grandiose, grandiloquent . . . No critic is likely to fault Lynch in his overflowing qualities of inventiveness, audacious draftsmanship, and sympathetic characterization.”—Locus
“The kind of witty romp that reminds you exactly how much fun heroic fantasy is supposed to be.”—SFX
The Lies of Locke Lamora
“Right now, in the full flush of a second reading, I think The Lies of Locke Lamora is probably in my top ten favorite books ever. Maybe my top five. If you haven’t read it, you should. If you have read it, you should probably read it again.”—Patrick Rothfuss, New York Times bestselling author of The Name of the Wind
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Too Many Competing Plot Lines
By Robin Snyder
I really enjoyed the first book in this series but Red Seas Under Red Skies was a bit meh for me.
Don’t get me wrong, the dialogue between Locke and Jean is still amazing and I love the utter devotion those two have for one another. But the story was a little all over the place and I think my biggest issue is probably that the flashbacks were to a time not that long ago instead of when they were growing up gentlemen bastards. So things got a little but jumbly
***“Know something? I'd lay even odds that between the people following us and the people hunting us, we've become this city's principle means of employment. Tal Verrar's entire economy is now based on messing with us.”***
And therein lies the problem. They aren’t between a rock and a hard place but A Rock, A hard place, A cliff and an erupting volcano. There are too many adversaries and sub plots and side scams and….well I think you get what I’m saying.
I found myself getting really distracted. I’d read a little bit and then I’d wonder off into another book or three before I remembered to come back to it. It took me forever to get through the section that involved learning how to fake being a pirate.
☯ The + side ☯
☞ - Locke and Jean are ever entertaining. They have a great bromance and even though they have been through some tough times they are still like brothers.
☞ - There are always strong women in this and I was happy to see that the pirates are equal opportunity employers and there were a fair share of deadly female pirates.
☞ - The world building is really wonderful with all the alchemical concoctions and such as well as the deadly and cruel games that the nobility of different lands like to play. I will never look at a chess game in quite the same way after this.
☯ The - side ☯
☛ - Took way too long to get anywhere in the story. With far too many overlapping plot lines. It was a little hard to follow who was on whose side and how they were messing with Locke and Jean.
☛ - There was no Sabatha. Look we didn’t really get to see her in the first book but I was thinking she is Locke’s long lost love and I keep thinking she is going to pop up sometime….but she didn’t. I wish I would have known that going into this book.
☛ - The ending. Well it was unexpected that things played out like they did. I will give Scott Lynch that but idk it made most of the story seem a bit pointless to me.
Overall:
The writing and dialogue is really good I just don’t think I liked the story all that much. But this is maybe a story that you like better the second time you read through it since you knew where things are going.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
The Lies of Scott Lynch
By David R
Scott's [author] bad habit of chronological jumping is further exacerbated in Red Seas Under Red Skies. In Book 1: The Lies of Locke Lamora, Lynch would sometimes jump backwards in time at the start of a new chapter--without warning. He typically did this to enrich the following chapters, providing the reader with key cultural context or valuable background info.
Sometimes he would use this technique to mislead reader expectations; after a scene in which the opposition appears to have the drop on Locke, Scott would flash back to a time where Locke is preparing for the scene we were just in, and show that everything is going as planned. The purpose of this is to let the readers see why the opposing characters *think* they have the upper hand when in fact they do not. It's easier to believe in trickery when you can see it from the side of the person being tricked. If you already know the ploy, you're less likely to believe that Locke's targets were beguiled.
But in this book, the author jumps forwards and backwards in time seemingly at random and it becomes more of a nuisance as the book goes on. Rather than using his literary "time travel" as an effective tool like in Book 1, Lynch flies about his chronology and bamboozles the audience. Just when you begin to get involved in a certain scene or sequence of events, he rips the rug out from under you and puts you someplace utterly unrelated to the last chapter. Usually someplace impressively dull. Now you've got to reorient where the heck you are and get re-involved (or bored if his inept hook eluded you) with whatever is going on.
The Ugly Part: [spoilers]
Wow. This guy messed up big time. He began his book with Locke and Jean escaping Camorr, Jean proactively establishing new connections and influence while Locke recovered from wounds inflicted during his battle against the Grey King from Book 1. The two boldly stake out a new heist, The Sinspire (the coolest name for a gambling establishment ever). This time their confidence game isn't against the gullible nobility of Camorr; instead it's a ruthless, clever, and iron-fisted man named Requin who by wealth and reputation is a king in his own right. The games are uncheatable, but our protagonists are so great at their work they find ways to cheat without getting caught. Their winnings earn them an invitation to the highest level of the Sinspire. Now the game is on, Locke trying to beguile not just big-shot Requin but his sharp-witted wife Selendri as well. You're immersed, fully invested in the outcome of the heist and then...!
WE INTERRUPT THIS EXCELLENT STORY FOR 200 PAGES OF: "SAILING FOR DUMMIES."
Featuring:
100 pages of pointless flashbacks that lend nothing to the story or just aggravate the audience. On the isle of Salon Corbeau (or whatever its called) we become enraged seeing how sadistic the inhabitants of this aristocratic isle are towards poor people, kittens, and puppies. Locke wants revenge. WE want revenge. Do we get it? Not really. Just jump out of sequence to some other chapter we don't care about until it's been so long we barely remember the place.
Learn everything you never wanted to know about nautical terminology, pirate lingo, rigging, boring superstitions, and tedious ship maintenance, all in 200 easy pages. Watch our daring heroes as they engage in the most thrilling, death-defying gambit of their lives! Mopping floorboards with vinegar, stacking supply crates, and staring at maps.
Watch in awe as the master of lies, Locke Lamora, a man so slippery he stole almost an entire kingdom's wealth just by acting confident, is caught in every lie he tells. Behold as this man of myth, the Thorn of Camorr, who can play his emotions and facial expressions the way Mozart plays piano is effortlessly outwitted by some stupid pirate woman we don't care about. Experience the disappointment as hollow, stock, side characters are able to see through all his deceptions with ease.
Even your characters are bored, Lynch! How do you think WE feel???
I actually expected the last line of this book to read, "Then Locke woke up from his magical pirate dream and went back to being a legendary thief instead of a clumsy, boring, idiot."
To top it all off, they don't even steal the right thing. They mean to steal Requin's priceless paintings but they end up stealing the fake ones. Which is completely UNLIKE Lamora to do. So its a book about thieves that's actually about pretty much anything except thieving. And when the finally DO get back to thieving they steal the complete wrong thing. How stupid. I just hope the third book doesn't suck this bad. Guess we'll find out in my next review: Republic of Thieves.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Great follow-up to the first!
By Amazon Customer
There are a lot of critics that have given the second book in this series a bad rating, for what reason is beyond me. The first book was epic and was full of New twists and turns. We are also introduced to these two new characters that are shiny and new, and it seem to bug people that the second book wasn't as shiny and new as the first.
The second book, in my opinion, holds just as much fabulous waster as the first. I get to read about and see the two characters grow that I met in the first book. We get to see another story with it own twists and turns. We get to see an honest story where the "good guys" do not always win. We also get to read a story that inspires a world that reminds me of Treasure Island and the Count of Monte Cristo (I'll be criticized for that last one, but who cares )
On to the third and final book...hoping for another 5 star.
Peace
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