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[–] witheyeandclaw@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Lies of Locke Lamora. Just started this, but the atmosphere and storytelling are fantastic.

[–] dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I loved that book so much... and hated the next two books so much.

[–] pancake@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What did you dislike about them out of curiosity? I thoroughly enjoyed all 3 books.

[–] dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

In the second book, it was just a bunch of pirate sailing stuff for kinda no reason that he is suddenly a master of even though he grew up homeless in a city with no access to boats/water. It meandered and didn't tell a very good story, at least not one I cared at all about.

The third book I can't even remember. I didn't finish it because I disliked the writing and story so much. That was close to 15 years ago, so I don't remember any details. If I remember correctly, at the time of the writing of that third book the author was going through a bitter divorce or his wife was dying of cancer or something extremely traumatic for him and his family, so the writing suffered. I do know that whatever the cause was, he opened up about his severe depression at the time.