Gentleman Bastard Sequence Red Seas Under Red Skies, (Paperback)

from Winterrain

This book does away with what I felt was the main flaw of the prequel- a poor meshing of the past storyline with the current one. The same device of telling the backstory in tandem with the main story is used here, but more successfully- I could see the plot coming together as I read. Besides tha...

from kraaivrouw

I've got one word for you: Pirates. There. Are we all done now? We really ought to be because I don't know about you, but for me the only thing better than pirates would be pirate ninja assassin zombies and how often do you read about that? These aren't romance novel pirates, by the way. These ar...

from Temporalis

I found Red Seas Under Red Skies an even better read than the first in the series, building on the already solid foundation in that book. Another book which I had difficulty putting down, I'm excited to read the next one, whenever it is available. Scott Lynch spends more time on character develop...

from DRFP

Unlike most people, I found this superior to the first novel. TLoLL was a very fun, enjoyable read, but it was filled with a lot of cliche. Okay, we're dealing with pirates this time and an attempt to rob a casino, yet somehow it felt a little more convincing and original. Some people say they fo...

from saltmanz

I loved this book; thought it was almost as good as the first. The only real knock(s) against it that I could come up with were the fact that the transition from the "casino heist" plot to the "pirates" plot was awkwardly done, and that the two were tied back together rather abruptly. Thinking ab...