Outside of a Dog: Lynch, Scott: (01) Lies of Locke Lamora, The

John Novak

John Novak wrote on August 16, 2006 at 9:35 AM:

Ah, I was hoping I'd catch a review of this, somewhere. It looked intriguing in the store, but it also looked intriguing in that way that might have been just slick advertising.

Is there any indication of how many there will be in the series?

Kate

Kate wrote on August 16, 2006 at 9:43 AM:

There will be seven, all relatively separated in time and standalone.

You can read the entire prologue as an RTF from the author's website; this is from the British version and there are some changes of phrase as well as spelling.

I think it might be worth your time.

Trent Goulding

Trent Goulding wrote on August 16, 2006 at 11:26 AM:

Ditto what John said. This one has been looking interesting in the display stack (I actually read the opening bit you excerpted above). I'll have to see when the library gets a copy.

David Tate

David Tate wrote on September 11, 2006 at 11:29 PM:

I'm also not entirely happy with the body count of the book, but I really shouldn't say any more about that.

I read this over my recent vacation, and I agree with you. I can deal with body counts, but in this case I didn't feel that the [omitted to avoid SPOILER] was commensurate with the [ditto] in the necessary way. Especially if there are no plans for a sequel that continues the same story line.

I really enjoyed [...] the non-medievaloid setting of the city of Camorr

Apart from the obvious fantasy/sf elements, it felt like Renaissance Venice with the serial number filed off, to me. Is that "duh" obvious, or am I leaping to a bogus conclusion?