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

Still struggling for it to capture me. I feel like there’s a moment of break through and the story sucks me in and I can’t put it down, but then all of a sudden I’m drowning in poetic metaphors as Scott Lynch painfully introduces and describes new parts of the world. After reading 80% of the book I’d like to be able to easily follow what is going on rather than still being introduced to new aspects.

It’s not the easiest read. A lot of detail about how the city and other aspects look or “feel” in place of what I would call “a real hook of a story”. It has moments of catching me where I feel drawn in and excited to read more but then I go into the next section and feel overwhelmed by the detail. I see the underlying story but often feel sidetracked by “side missions” that feel like they offer little