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Camorr, a city that isn’t safe for a good/humble man. It is in that city where we learn Locke Lamora, an orphan who turned into a thief because that was the only way to survive the city, the yellowjackets and other thugs. Once he breaches the Secret Peace as a child(a pact between the scum and the rich of the city) and is responsible for the death multiple ‘innocent’ victims, Locke arrives by the house of Perelandro, where he’s been taught to become a ‘gentlemen bastard’. And those thieves are from another calibre than the regular pick pocketer.
The Lies of Locke Lamora is an interesting book, full of wonderful peaces of humor, dialogue and true guts. The first fifty pages were difficult for me to read, because I like to go straight into the action. But it didn’t took to long. The schemes were Locke is behind are simply brilliant and is wonderful for loyal fantasy-readers, cause Locke and his companions aren’t the stealthy thieves with daggers, who are waiting in the shadows of an alley. They are the thieves who pretend to be merchants, priests, nobility or a beggar. Their attention to detail, like using the right accents, reading and speaking of multiple languages and their wardrobe full of clothes makes them incredibly skilled and almost impossible to get caught.
While the first part of the story goes according Locke his plan and everything seems to go well, all the work will be gone for nothing, when a third pawn comes to the city.
This book is simply brilliant in multiple ways, cause it shows ingenuity and…
