Another Locke Lamora adventure, another city, another heist. Terrorizing a new city is always a thrill, and Locke and Jean - with their new identities, naturally - are about to pull a big one. They are almost ready to spring the trap, when everything goes wrong, all wrong.

In other words, the adventures are new but the structure stays the same as in the previous book. The main character is as lovable as ever, Lynch's writing is as engrossing as ever and I thoroughly enjoyed every page of the book and couldn't wait to get back to reading it after every mandatory break.

Having said that, the novel could've been tighter. Even though I enjoyed the whole thing, the story probably would've been better if you had removed 200 pages from the middle and added them into the end. Now we have elaborate schemes, multiple sidesteps and finally a terrible rush to get everything nice and tidy by the end of the book. At least one of the sidesteps could've been a novella or even a novel of its own, now it seemed a bit half-baked.

All this still means that I'll be continuing with [b:The Republic of Thieves|2890090|The Republic of Thieves (Gentleman Bastard, #3)|Scott Lynch|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1406961069s/2890090.jpg|2916344] soon so that I'm ready for [b:The Thorn of Emberlain|8074907|The Thorn of Emberlain (Gentleman Bastard #4)|Scott Lynch|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1425482518s/8074907.jpg|12787416] when it's released next summer...