This weekly meme was started by @Lauren’s Page Turners. It is now being hosted by Budget Tales Book Blog. To participate, choose a random book from your GoodReads TBR and show it off. Which sounds easy enough until you have to decide how to choose that book! I think I will use a different way each week, like picking a color or number of pages. I will let you know each week how I chose the book and then something interesting about it, like how it ended up on the list or why I want to read it. Got it? Okay let’s get started.
This week’s pick begins with the letter ‘L’. I didn’t have a lot to choose from, but 4 of them started with the word ‘last’. I decided to ignore those and chose from what was left. This book has been on my list for a few years. It was published in 2006, but it still pops up on other people’s blogs now and again. It still has quite a few holds on it at the library as well, so I am assuming people are still enjoying it. Maybe I will one day as well.
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
Published: June 2006
Summary from GoodReads:
An orphan’s life is harsh — and often short — in the island city of Camorr, built on the ruins of a mysterious alien race. But born with a quick wit and a gift for thieving, Locke Lamora has dodged both death and slavery, only to fall into the hands of an eyeless priest known as Chains — a man who is neither blind nor a priest.
A con artist of extraordinary talent, Chains passes his skills on to his carefully selected “family” of orphans — a group known as the Gentlemen Bastards. Under his tutelage, Locke grows to lead the Bastards, delightedly pulling off one outrageous confidence game after another. Soon he is infamous as the Thorn of Camorr, and no wealthy noble is safe from his sting.
Passing themselves off as petty thieves, the brilliant Locke and his tightly knit band of light-fingered brothers have fooled even the criminal underworld’s most feared ruler, Capa Barsavi. But there is someone in the shadows more powerful — and more ambitious — than Locke has yet imagined.
Known as the Gray King, he is slowly killing Capa Barsavi’s most trusted men — and using Locke as a pawn in his plot to take control of Camorr’s underworld. With a bloody coup under way threatening to destroy everyone and everything that holds meaning in his mercenary life, Locke vows to beat the Gray King at his own brutal game — or die trying…
It looks like there is a fifth book in this series coming out in January. Although there is no indication that it will be the last one. I might just have to bump this one up on my list so I can get the first four out of the way before the next one come out.
Have you read this book or series? What did you think of it? Let me know in the comments.
Until next time…
Confessions of a Serial Reader 
This has been on my TBR for a while, too. Someone told me it is an adult Six of Crows lol
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I’ve heard that too😊
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