Reviews - República de Ladrões

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República de Ladrões

Scott Lynch

4.13 AVERAGE

jilllee's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional funny inspiring mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

natty907's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous dark funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

wbower's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

hollieethomass's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous emotional funny hopeful reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

sunny_stardust's review against another edition

4.25

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

The Republic of Thieves starts off strong, directly continuing the story of the previous installment. Quickly though, the tonality changes completely.

The story, this time, is much more character driven and finally ties some loose ends and connects the dots, like with the relationship between Locke and Sabetha that gets a few particularly shining and moving moments.

Besides this, the plot revolves, almost in its entirety, around political intrigues and although I overall enjoyed the pranks and trickery from the involved parties, it did drag on a bit.

Parallel to the main story, we also get a large, segmented flashback, describing in detail an important episode from the past of the Gentleman Bastards, which I enjoyed as a welcome breather and a change of pace at times. It also very much contributed to the book's character development so I believe it earned its rightful place in it.

Even though I would say it was the weakest book in the series, it sets up the stage for future ones (please Mr. Lynch!) with an excellent and bone-chilling ending. The world is changing and events are going to unfold on a much grander scale from now on and I am really scared for the main cast of characters.