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A review by capnmags
The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch
2.0
2 or 3 stars overall, I guess, I can't decide. 4 stars for Jean. 4 stars for the twins in the flashbacks. 1 star for Locke and Sabetha.
My least favorite of the series so far. I get that Lynch does the flashbacks in this series, and that's fine, but the flashbacks with the play was like reading a novel within a novel. The twins were hilarious, but the play itself and all the scenes with Locke and Sabetha just dragged. And Sabetha ... I really wanted to like Sabetha from all the hinting in the first two books. Now that she has really appeared, I'm disappointed. Her character is a flat stereotype. Zamira and Ezri were so great in book 2 that I had high hopes that this author could write solid women characters. Nope. He fell back really hard on some tired old tropes with Sabetha. What a let down. This book was also extremely predictable.
My least favorite of the series so far. I get that Lynch does the flashbacks in this series, and that's fine, but the flashbacks with the play was like reading a novel within a novel. The twins were hilarious, but the play itself and all the scenes with Locke and Sabetha just dragged. And Sabetha ... I really wanted to like Sabetha from all the hinting in the first two books. Now that she has really appeared, I'm disappointed. Her character is a flat stereotype. Zamira and Ezri were so great in book 2 that I had high hopes that this author could write solid women characters. Nope. He fell back really hard on some tired old tropes with Sabetha. What a let down. This book was also extremely predictable.