The Republic of Thieves

The Republic of Thieves Yes! This is a good moment for a reader when a series that started as not really working for you suddenly clicks and you start loving it. Mr. Lynch won me over completely and now I too am a fan of Locke Lamora. I love it when that happens (sadly not very often). This one is even better than the first two novels. And here is the story of how I got into these (a lesson for future hopefully).

I happily purchased The Lies of Locke Lamora thinking that I'll love it like everyone else did but for some reason it didn't work for me. Having said that I appreciated the story telling and the world building of course but I just couldn't warm up to the protagonist who is a liar (duh) a thief and a con artist by profession and his merry band called The Gentleman Bastards. Despite appreciating it, I just didn't love it.

Then I saw a very cheap copy of The Republic of Thieves at an on line secondhand bookstore and decided to buy it since I thought I may read it in the future if/when I was in the mood. This is the third novel of the series so I had to get the second one of course (God writing this makes me realise just how crazy us book lovers are) and I have found a cheap new copy at bookdepository. So I got it and read it when nothing seemed good and thought I'd at least get good story telling and despite the fact that pirates just don't work me that much, the combo of thieves turning pirates didn't make me stop. And I liked it very very much.

So I actually started The Republic of Thieves eager to dive in to a good story with familiar characters with the addition of elusive Sabetha. And I was not dissapointed. Yea the cheap copy I had was cheap for a reason (something spilled on the first section and it was almost dirty) but the story - both the flashback and the here and now ones- was great as expected.

SPOILER!

Yeah it turned a bit sour for me in the end since that twist didn't feel organic as far as I'm concerned. But Locke is really lovable so I suppose I'll keep on liking him even if he turned out to be a dark magus of Karthain who somehow inserted himself into the body of a small kid in Camorr while trying to resurrect his dead wife. At least Mr. Lynch gave himself an out if that didn't work out.