jaylee’s Reviews > The Lies of Locke Lamora > Status Update

The middle has been much better than the beginning, but I’m still struggling with the unnecessarily descriptive writing style. And the plot - I’m really hoping for a good twist/reveal to show the MC has been pulling a fast one on everyone but at the moment it seems like he’s a bungling idiot who just keeps fucking it all up. So far, this is nowhere near the mastermind thief-con-artist story I had hoped for.

The pace has really picked up in the last 100 pages and it’s been a lot more engaging. Im finally getting into it. But oh man what a rough start, the first 200 pages of this book should’ve been like 50 pages max IMO

I’m 200 pages in and the plot is just finally beginning to start. Idk man, I’m tempted to DNF this one. I thought I’d love this book - I love the premise, the synopsis was intriguing, I heard many good reviews - but I’m finding it really slow and honestly kinda boring. And the writing style is not my favourite, it’s overly descriptive IMO but also unnecessarily descriptive which is what annoys me.

I’m struggling to get into this book. I read about ~60-65 pages and wasn’t hooked, so I put this down for a few days and read 3 different books in the meantime (lol), then I returned to this book today and read another ~60-65 pages, but I’m still not super into it. Hopefully it’s just off to a slow start and I’ll start enjoying it more soon?