Red Seas Under Red Skies
by Scott Lynch
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Author: Scott LynchEdition: Hardcover
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Published: 2007-07-31
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 576
Publisher: Spectra
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Book Review: The swashbuckling con games and escapades continue!
Summary: 5 Stars
Locke Lamora and Jean Tannen, the two badly beaten and shocked, weary remnants of The Gentlemen Bastards, continue their picaresque fantastical escapades in fine form!
After a somewhat hollow victory at the conclusion of The Lies of Locke Lamora in the light of their continuing difficulties at the hands of the cruelly vindictive Bonds Magi, a battered Locke and Jean take refuge on the shores of Val Terrar. With their strength and wits at long last recovered, they plan the biggest con game of all, the heist of the contents of the vault of the Sinspire, a casino known for its ruthless treatment of cheats, frauds and card sharps with a security system renowned for being absolutely impregnable!
But their plans for this grandiose, spectacular theft are interrupted by a scoundrel playing his own style of political con game. Tricked into drinking a slow-acting poison, Jean and Locke are forced into assuming the role of sea-faring, plundering pirates. They will be given the antidote to the poison only if they can create a panic among Val Terrar's legitimate marine businesses.
Dialogue? Spectacular, especially the high speed, clever banter between Locke and Jean that, as other reviewers have noted, will remind readers of the hilarious give and take between Robert Redford and Paul Newman in The Sting and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Lynch's versions of medieval profanity are particularly creative.
Atmosphere and setting? Incredible! Sights, sounds, smells, colours, weather, buildings, flowers, temperature ... it seems like no detail is too small for Lynch to consider adding to the world that he has created. Readers will have no difficulty whatsoever creating a mental picture of what's happening!
Plot? Superb. Readers will take utter delight in the clever quick paced twists, turns and intersections of two major plot lines running concurrently and will also enjoy a couple of rather interesting sub-plots as well.
Characterization? God forbid anything should ever happen to Locke or Jean or their obvious love for one another! Lynch has turned them into such completely built entities that one can't help but cheer wildly for their success.
Highly recommended? You bet ... with the added comment that I'll be waiting rather impatiently for the much anticipated third instalment in the story.
Paul Weiss
Summary of Red Seas Under Red Skies
In his highly acclaimed debut, The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch took us on an adrenaline-fueled adventure with a band of daring thieves led by con artist extraordinaire Locke Lamora. Now Lynch brings back his outrageous hero for a caper so death-defying, nothing short of a miracle will pull it off.After a brutal battle with the underworld that nearly destroyed him, Locke and his trusted sidekick, Jean, fled the island city of their birth and landed on the exotic shores of Tal Verrar to nurse their wounds. But even at this westernmost edge of civilization, they can?t rest for long?and are soon back to what they do best: stealing from the undeserving rich and pocketing the proceeds for themselves.
This time, however, they have targeted the grandest prize of all: the Sinspire, the most exclusive and heavily guarded gambling house in the world. Its nine floors attract the wealthiest clientele?and to rise to the top, one must impress with good credit, amusing behavior?and excruciatingly impeccable play. For there is one cardinal rule, enforced by Requin, the house?s cold-blooded master: it is death to cheat at any game at the Sinspire.
Brazenly undeterred, Locke and Jean have orchestrated an elaborate plan to lie, trick, and swindle their way up the nine floors?straight to Requin?s teeming vault. Under the cloak of false identities, they meticulously make their climb?until they are closer to the spoils than ever.
But someone in Tal Verrar has uncovered the duo?s secret. Someone from their past who has every intention of making the impudent criminals pay for their sins. Now it will take every ounce of cunning to save their mercenary souls. And even that may not be enough.?
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