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A review by frasersimons
The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch
2.0
At this point I think the formula is a bit stale for me. Win at a cost feels less organic, because you expect exactly that. Only the revelation to make that occur this time is a bit too contrived, making the entire ending feel contrived. Yeah, we get it everyone betrays everyone; no matter the locale, apparently, you’re going to get screwed over, when participating in skullduggery. And yet again we get a circuitous pointing right back to the characters already known at the end. It feels like it’s spinning its wheels in its attempts to screw over the characters juuuust enough. Just Move On from these damn villains!
Unfortunately, the bounce back to Locke as a kid and the romance angle felt really forecasted and the play itself just another thing the author is into, as with the sailing in the previous book, that becomes something that pads the book, making it the longest and self indulgent of the series so far. I think reading these years apart would be way better than back-to-back, but I don’t like to do that, so it/I suffers for it.
Unfortunately, the bounce back to Locke as a kid and the romance angle felt really forecasted and the play itself just another thing the author is into, as with the sailing in the previous book, that becomes something that pads the book, making it the longest and self indulgent of the series so far. I think reading these years apart would be way better than back-to-back, but I don’t like to do that, so it/I suffers for it.