Reviews tagging 'Child death'

The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch

61 reviews

literarybitch's review

adventurous dark sad

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes

3.5

We love a gentleman bastard, a dashing rogue doing heists and dodging the law! That said, this goes to some very dark places, so fair warning: it starts out with a guy selling orphans, that's a rough place to begin.
I enjoyed myself throughout this one and I have no major complaints. The various nobles' names were hard to tell apart when they were all together in the thick of it, but I was so far in that I decided not to care and it didn't diminish my overall understanding.

Comparisons between this and The Thousand Deaths of Ardor Benn are obvious: they're both quite lengthy, vaguely Rennaissance-era fantasy heists starring a clever antihero and his bestie(s). Between the two, I find Ardor Benn much more fun so if you only have room in your life for one, I recommend that one. But if you don't mind the darker and sadder tones of this One Last Job gone sideways and can't get enough debonair con men, this gets the job done.

7.5/10
#WhatsKenyaReading

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Torture

Moderate: Child death and Death

Minor: Slavery and Death of parent

idksamiguess's review

adventurous dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Torture, and Murder

Moderate: Child death

theneighborhoodbookwyrm's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, Child death, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Rape, Torture, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, and Physical abuse

ireadinbed's review

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

This book was almost a DNF at around a 100 pages because I started it when I eas really sick. But I picked it back up as a plane read for vacation months later and I ended up really liking it! At about the halfway mark I had finally gotten to where I understood the setting and was invested in the characters. 

which made all the characters dying super fucking impactful lol. My heart for Bug and Nazca in particular

I think I could have a 5 star in later books. The ending was satisfying but I am bummed the next book is obviously gonna be in a different place I had just gotten a handle on camorr lol. But this one took just a little too long to get me invested in the characters. Still a great bookk but not quite a 5. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Gore, Vomit, Violence, and Child death

davonysus's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Animal cruelty, Blood, Cursing, Murder, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Alcohol, Body shaming, Vomit, and Fatphobia

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Pandemic/Epidemic, Cursing, Excrement, Death of parent, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Drug use, Drug abuse, Kidnapping, and War

vi_king's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

A great heist! Reminds me of Six of Crows, if you halved the cast and doubled the dark and violence. Really caught me off guard a bunch of times.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Excrement, Murder, Torture, Violence, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, and Blood

It's a dark and violent stiry and doesn't recoil from that at all. It doesn't leave you reckoning with it really, just facing it and accepting it as part of the events.

cassie7e's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Dark and violent but consistently funny and compelling as well. An intriguing world, subtle grounded magic, and lovable thieves. Scenes from different timelines woven together at just the right times to reveal information and character development.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, and Death

Moderate: Child death, Cursing, Gore, Blood, Classism, and Murder

Minor: Fire/Fire injury and Alcohol

kiwij96's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

It took a moment for me to get used to the structure of the book: chapters written in parts with an interlude at the end of each chapter which is like a flashback. Once I got used to this stule of stroytelling, it became easier to engage with, however, there were times when the story was engaging and I couldn't put it down for like 100-150 pages, and other times where I struggled to get to the next part. It also felt like some of the paragraphs had been very heavily attacked by a thesaurus which meant I had to reread sections just to understand what was going on.

Criticisms aside, the story was full of twists and turns and more deaths that a season of Grey's Anatomy. The worldbuilding was full of description and even had its own calendar system. The characters were fantastically written, both good and bad characters. They brought me joy, anger, and heartbreak at times. Locke is an interesting character to me because as someone who is supposed to be the brains of the operation, he sure does make a whole bunch of mistakes and then continues acting like he is the cleverest being known to man.

I am unsure if I will continue the trilogy as this one felt like it could be a standalone, but we shall see.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Blood, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, and Vomit

Minor: Classism and Animal death

ijustreallyliketrees's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, and Torture

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Vomit, Death of parent, Excrement, and Cancer

ziopera's review against another edition

adventurous dark inspiring tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Torture, Death, Child death, and Cursing

Moderate: Sexual content and Pedophilia

Minor: Animal cruelty