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Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch
3.5
adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

Suffers a bit from sequel syndrome, with us thrown into a 2 year time jump after the events of Lies, plus the interlude chapters where we're also catching up on what happened to Locke in those 2 years. It jumps back and forth for half the book and, while it does all ravel up nicely into a cute lil bow, it was quite slow at times, especially the random interlude chapters about furniture; they did not need to go on for that long. 

Anywho, the ending really picked up, except who I thought was the villain didn't really end up being a villain, like it was 2-3 different wankers all trynna screw Locke over which was a bit... meh. Hence the 3.5, but the .5 comes from how much I loved Jean's character this book.