The Lies of Locke Lamora

A secret order of con artists, revenge plots, and the vicious politics of a criminal underground all on the backdrop of a pirate fantasy world that D*sney could only dream about.

Absolutely fantastic. The literary equivalent of watching a truly spectacular blockbuster movie, the kind that sticks with your days and months after the end credits roll.

World building A+, characters you fall in love with, wonderful treatment of female characters (which is a shame that it still has to be praised instead of being considered the bare fucking minimum but so many male fantasy writers are so bad at this...).

One of the books that makes me wish we could experience novels like we experience movies. So many moments in this book made me wish I could turn to a friend and share excited screaming or gasps of horror. But I guess I'll just have to settle for recommending this book to everyone I know.

Stellar, will definitely check out the entire series.