This is definitely one of my new favorite books, and one which I will be recommending to all my friends. But being an audiobook, it is easy enough to just sit through these parts until it gets back to the action. In particular the passages where Locke is dealing with the nobility go overboard in detailing all the social pleasantries and etiquette involved. My one minor criticism of the story is that there are patches where I feel the author gets bogged down in describing either the architecture of the city or the detailed dialogue involved in their cons. I especially loved the way he handled the dialogue, it is full of dry wit and sarcastic one-liners and he delivered them perfectly. I find his voice very easy to listen to and he makes the characters feel so real. It is just the story of Locke and his friends and their (mis)adventures and it is brilliant. There is no dark lord rising, no coming apocalypse, no village boy who finds out he has magic powers and must save the world. I especially loved the fresh approach the author took compared to traditional fantasy writing. The story just grabs you in from the first moment.
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