Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9781596061385
ISBN number: 1596061383
Label: Subterranean
Manufacturer: Subterranean
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 600
Printing Date: November 01, 2007
Publishing house: Subterranean
Sale Popularity Level: 1305282
Studio: Subterranean
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Locke Lamora, the erstwhile Thorn of Camorr, and Jean Tannen have fled their home city and the wreckage of their lives. But they can't run forever, and after escaping Camorr they decide to head for the richest and most difficult target on the horizon-- the city-state of Tal Verrar. And the Sinspire.
The Sinspire is the ultimate gambling house . . . exclusive, luxurious, and fiendishly guarded. No thief has ever survived an endeavor to rob it. Naturally, Locke plans to take it for a fortune, in his biggest gamble yet.
But this perfect crime may have to wait.
Someone else in Tal Verrar wants the Gentlemen Bastards expertise, and they're not gentle in compelling Locke and Jean to devote their talents to an even more unlikely and suicidal proposition-- masquerading as pirates on the high seas. Fine work for a pair of landlubbing thieves barely able to tell one end of a ship from the other!
Locke and Jean find their abiding friendship tested to its very limits in this strange new world of lurching wooden decks, brutal ship-to-ship action, and feuding pirate captains. But not even their sojourn as buccaneers can keep the Gentlemen Bastards from their much-desired reckoning with all the powers that have conspired to interrupt their lives, including the last people in the world any sane person would want to offend... the Bondsmagi of Karthain.
Red Seas Under Red Skies will be illustrated with a full colour cover, and four full page illustrations (one exclusive to the lettered) by Edward Miller.
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This is an excellent book. I find it difficult to buy most of what passes for fantasy these days, but Scott Lynch creates characters that you care about...and he isn't afraid to kill them. Any novel that can create emotion, even beyond the suspense of turning pages, is worth my time and money. Red Seas Under Red Skies does that, and I would recommend it to any who asked.
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Author spends a long time setting the scene. Plot becomes very convoluted. And everything unravels with amazing ease within the last 50 pages or so.
The pirate adventure is a miserable disgression which does not add anything to the plot. Long and uselessly descriptive. If I want to learn sailing, I will buy another type of book.
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I just happened to stumble across this book in the library, and I am glad that I did. I have not read the very first book in the series, but it didn't seem to matter.
I agree that it bogged down a bit in the middle (arrrr!), but there was enough tension to keep me interested. Overall, a fun read!
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This was a stay-up-until-dawn read, just like the very first one. I hope he carries these characters forward into many books. The fact that they can sort of stand-alone is nice too - no long wait for resolution of the main plotline.
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Great sequel, Mr. Lynch passed the test after writing one of the most fun and complicated plots ever in "The Lies of Locke Lamora". "Red Seas under Red Skies" bring us more of the same with a twist. I just loved the fact that the adventures of Locke and Jean were developed both in a urban enviorement and now in the open seas. Full blown sea battles among pirates, robbing a casino, decieving the beholder of the whole navy of Tal-Verrar, facing the murder plays of the bondsmagi (the scene on the night market was extremely well written and will bring a chill to your bones), falling in love and then mercy killing the girl of your dreams, etc, etc, etc.
YOU WONT BE DISSAPOINTED. This is a great book. YES it's different from the now classic "Lies of Locke Lamora", this one in particular will bring you tons of action in top of the well constructed and complicated plots that Mr. Lynch is known for.
Enjoy!!!!!!!
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