lucas’s Reviews > The Blacktongue Thief > Status Update

this is quite entertaining now that ive adapted to the narrative style and there arent quite so many penis references. there was even a kraken

there are good parts of this, but im not a fan of the humour. i get that kinch is a horny, cocky, and silly twenty-three year old, and sometimes the way that comes through in the narration works well, but there are only so many scat jokes and sexualised depictions of women and references to the hung stag god that i can take

i fear it will take me a while to stop instinctively comparing this book and its protagonist to locke lamora, lanky and sarcastic thief supreme. though my fondness for that series was what made this one stand out to me, so it isnt necessarily a bad thing