A review by katrinafriedwalt
The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch

4.0

I finished this weeks ago, but I keep putting off rating it because I'm still not sure how I feel about it, or the series as a whole. I really enjoy the characters, the writing, the humor, and what I refer to as the "surface stories", but I just keep waiting for that other shoe to drop. I feel like there just *has* to be some crazy epic story lurking underneath the surface, and as of book 3, I'm still waiting for it. Sure, there have been hints to it, and in this book we got more than in the first two, but I'm starting to get kind of frustrated and my interest is waning. Which is a shame because technically I really like all of the individual aspects of the series, it just hasn't quite had the oomph that I had been expecting out of it.