![]() ![]() When I was a kid playing Dungeons and Dragons I almost always played the “thief” class. Under careful tutelage, Locke and his companions grow into formidable talents, practicing their art in a series of ever more elaborate con-games. Camorr, the city itself, too is a terrific character in this book, being a vividly described assemblage of various fantasy cities Lankhmar, Arenjun, and real life historical ports like late medieval Venice. He’d starve or be sold into worse slavery had he not been born with a certain larceny in his heart. ![]() Our protagonist is the titular Locke Lamora, a young wastrel in the city of Camorr. It doesn’t have heroes and villains as much as it has profligate crooks and despicable liars. It’s about a school for thieves and not magicians. In a way this is the anti- Harry Potter book. Here’s the one sentence summary I’ve been using to describe The Lies Of Loche Lamora: 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. ![]() 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. An orphan’s life is harsh-and often short-in the island city of Camorr, built on the ruins of a mysterious alien race.
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