The Lies of Locke Lamora

They are completely dissolving.

Case in point, The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch.

This is the debut novel in the Gentlemen Bastard series, and it is explicitly, unapologetically described as a fantasy version of Ocean's 11.

Which automatically injects a very specific kind of adrenaline into the reading experience.

sea.

I just made the recommendation for a friend of mine to get into The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch.

Yeah.

The second one is my favorite because of the pirate female captain.

And I thought, you know what, I'm going to go back and do some fantasy.

kind of fantasy do i want well i want something maybe with like a i don't know there's something about that sort of snarky main character that i like and i believe when i was looking at options for books i was like it'd be nice to find something that i liked the way i liked the name of the wind the first book yeah that had that kind of character in it but it was a more complete series And in doing my research at the time, The Lies of Locke Lamora, which is book one of the Gentleman Bastard series by Scott Lynch, came up.

And it might have just been a bad timing thing, but I got through the...

Started reading it in prologue here.

It moves from different country to country for hosting the con, and we just hadn't been able to get to where we could go again until this year.

so we got to go and it was a lot of fun got to see a lot of panels of different sorts got to hear a lot of different readings from like different authors a lot of different writers that I like Scott Lynch was there the author of the Gentleman Bastard series the first one being The Lies of Locke Lamora a more recent kind of adult fantasy that's a lot of fun first one came out in 2007 and we got to We got to see T. Kingfisher, who would go on to host the ceremony and the awards show for the Hugos.

We got to go to different panels and got to walk the floor.

So it was a lot of fun.

I'll go next time.

I'll throw in the lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch.

I will throw that in.

If he finishes the damn series.

This brings us to a distinct, incredibly popular subgenre of fantasy, perfectly encapsulated by two phenomenal books on our list.

The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch, published in 2006, and Guards.

Guards by Terry Pratchett, published in 1989.

Setting the stage for The Lies of Locke Lamora is easy if you love heist movies.

Imagine if the film Ocean's Eleven were stripped of its slick Vegas veneer and dropped into a fantasy version of Renaissance finesse.

But much dirtier.