With 3 books published, I thought I might give this series a try, but after reading the first in the series, I remain undecided about its merits. It’s hard to care about a gang of foul-mouthed thugs, for one thing. Their leader, the POV character, Locke Lamora himself, is by any definition a psychopath. In fact, there is absolutely no one in this degenerate city anyone sane could find even remotely likeable.
There is a lot of exposition, much of it through flash-backs. Because the book actually begins with a flash-back, the jumps forward and backward were confusing until I got the time line unravelled.
OTOH, I wonder what happens to the survivors of the gang warfare? Is it worth the $$ to find out? The basic plot of “Lies” is intriguing, once you scrape off all the dirt.
–CPL
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Scott Lynch’s Gentleman Bastard series has been optioned for film by Phoenix Pictures, it has been announced.
Lynch’s Gentleman Bastard series got off to a roaring start with The Lies of Locke Lamora in 2006. Since then, two more books have been published: Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007) and The Republic of Thieves (2013). Four more books in the series are projected, with The Thorn of Emberlain having been delayed several times but hoped for release in late 2019 or early 2020.
Phoenix Pictures have produced a number of notable movies over the years, including The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), Apt Pupil (1998), The Thin Red Line (1998), Shutter Island (2010) and Black Swan (2010).
This is only an option and there is no major studio involvement, but this is a solid first step to getting the books on screen. It’ll be interesting to see how this develops.