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A review by etienne02
The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch
5.0
4,5/5. Well obviously this will be my last book of 2020, number 842 or something I believe, good year, less book read in the last 3 years but I wanted to slow down so it's more than fine.
I thought that Lynch had written a trilogy and then decide to continue the story, since the fourth one is coming in 2021, but no, from the ending and the afterword, it's more than clear that this was his plan all along to keep writing in this universe.
And I'm glad he did, because this is the best one by far in my opinion, not perfect, I think that this will never achieve best series for me for some reasons, but it keeps getting better and I always enjoy those books. Here we find the pacing to be way better, balancing between two heist in a good way. Lot of the book is focus on building background relationship between two characters and that was good, but it also has two downside. First, the love story was a bit too all over the place for my personal taste, and the heist, even if good and well handled, hadn't high stakes and that is something really important for me in fantasy. I like the "we need to kill the giant crazy old Gods before he destroy the universe" king of thing and here well... the stakes are far from that.
I did really like the writing, the cocky humor and dialogue from Locke, the brotherhood friendship and the backstory allowing the comeback of good characters that passed away.
Not perfect, but really the best one, a lot of fun to read and the next one will be a release buy or even preorder if I can have a paperback right away, since I have the first three on paperback and my OCD will enjoy the next one way more in paperback to match the others.
Anyway, great way to finish the year and if your looking for something different, and not just epic fantasy done different, but truly a different kind of fantasy, than Scott Lynch provides that and he is an author totally worth the shot. Maybe you'll like it, maybe not, but he brings something different, not trying to copy or remake anything, just doing his own things and I highly respect that and that ending...!!
I thought that Lynch had written a trilogy and then decide to continue the story, since the fourth one is coming in 2021, but no, from the ending and the afterword, it's more than clear that this was his plan all along to keep writing in this universe.
And I'm glad he did, because this is the best one by far in my opinion, not perfect, I think that this will never achieve best series for me for some reasons, but it keeps getting better and I always enjoy those books. Here we find the pacing to be way better, balancing between two heist in a good way. Lot of the book is focus on building background relationship between two characters and that was good, but it also has two downside. First, the love story was a bit too all over the place for my personal taste, and the heist, even if good and well handled, hadn't high stakes and that is something really important for me in fantasy. I like the "we need to kill the giant crazy old Gods before he destroy the universe" king of thing and here well... the stakes are far from that.
I did really like the writing, the cocky humor and dialogue from Locke, the brotherhood friendship and the backstory allowing the comeback of good characters that passed away.
Not perfect, but really the best one, a lot of fun to read and the next one will be a release buy or even preorder if I can have a paperback right away, since I have the first three on paperback and my OCD will enjoy the next one way more in paperback to match the others.
Anyway, great way to finish the year and if your looking for something different, and not just epic fantasy done different, but truly a different kind of fantasy, than Scott Lynch provides that and he is an author totally worth the shot. Maybe you'll like it, maybe not, but he brings something different, not trying to copy or remake anything, just doing his own things and I highly respect that and that ending...!!