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Red Seas Under Red Skies

(Gollancz)

By Scott Lynch

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| Paperback | 9780575079670

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Escaping from the attentions of the Bondsmagi Locke Lamora, the estwhile Thorn of Camorr and Jean Tannen have fled their home city. Taking ship they arrive in the city state of Tal Varrar where they are soon planning their most spectacular heist yet; they will take the luxurious gaming house, The SiContinue

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Red Seas Under Red Skies, by Scott Lynch

Home Contact us Posts Comments Red Seas Under Red Skies is the second volume of Lynch’s Gentleman Bastards sequences, following on from the successful The Lies of Locke Lamora. The sequence is planned to be seven books long, so it’s a good job that t ... (read full critics)

bookgeeks published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

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“As for history, we are living in its ruins. As for biographies, we are living with the consequences of all the decisions ever made in them. I tend not to read them for pleasure. It’s not unlike carefully scrutinizing the map when one has already reached the destination.”
“But romances aren’t r ... (continue)

“As for history, we are living in its ruins. As for biographies, we are living with the consequences of all the decisions ever made in them. I tend not to read them for pleasure. It’s not unlike carefully scrutinizing the map when one has already reached the destination.”
“But romances aren’t real, and surely never were. Doesn’t that take away some of the saviour?”
“What an interesting choice of words. ‘Not real, and never were.’ Could there be any more appropriate literature for men of our profession? Why are you always so averse to fiction, when we’ve made it our meal-ticket?”
[…]
Jean set the book down before him and tapped its cover.“This is were you and I are headed, or at least you are. Look for us in the history books and you’ll find us in the margins. Look for us in legends and you might just find us celebrated.”

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