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Feb. 23rd, 2010 10:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lady_t_220Finally finished 'Red Seas Under Red Skies' by Scott Lynch, sequel to the fabulous 'The Lies of Locke Lamora' which is one of those books I bore people with by raving about it until they finally read it just to make me shut the fuck up.
I reached the end with only two words in mind and they were "YOU BASTARD!" which was then followed by some actual crying because IT CAN'T END LIKE THAT and a lot of flappy flaily arm gestures and the fact that I really REALLY NEED book 3 and it's not out until October.
(Hardback's out in March. I may have to get that from the library, but if it's as HUGE as the harback for Red Seas I may just have to suck it up and wait for the paperback. GAAAAAARRRRGH. *flap flap flap flap*)
To be objective, the middle kind of slows down and the ending is one crazy hell-for-leather rush to a conclusion crammed into the final chapter- a conclusion I would have happily seen expanded substantially at the expense of some of the mucking about on boats that takes up the second half of the book, but it's still a rolling good read, and I absolutely will not be able to function if he's really gone and killed Locke. Of course, there has to be a last-minute saviour from the poison, he's got three weeks or so left to find a totally impossible cure damnit! Plenty of time! There can't be a Jean without a Locke, they already massacred half the characters in book 1, you can't go killing your titular hero FFS, you just can't! Without Locke, Jean would just be all full of guilt for Lock being all noble and self-sacrificing and set himself up in a little corner somewhere, become the next Father Chains and be lonely forever and I WILL CRY AGAIN and that would suck. Because their love is so leaking out of the subtext despite Jean having a girlfriend this time round... LOCKE WAS ALL JEALOUS AND EMO WHEN THE GIRLY SEXINGS TOOK HIS JEAN AWAY!
Also, Locke can't die because we still don't know his REAL DAMN NAME YET. I don't know why this matters so much to me but it damn does. Also, Bondsmagi, there needs to be score-settling damnit!
Fuckin' October...
I reached the end with only two words in mind and they were "YOU BASTARD!" which was then followed by some actual crying because IT CAN'T END LIKE THAT and a lot of flappy flaily arm gestures and the fact that I really REALLY NEED book 3 and it's not out until October.
(Hardback's out in March. I may have to get that from the library, but if it's as HUGE as the harback for Red Seas I may just have to suck it up and wait for the paperback. GAAAAAARRRRGH. *flap flap flap flap*)
To be objective, the middle kind of slows down and the ending is one crazy hell-for-leather rush to a conclusion crammed into the final chapter- a conclusion I would have happily seen expanded substantially at the expense of some of the mucking about on boats that takes up the second half of the book, but it's still a rolling good read, and I absolutely will not be able to function if he's really gone and killed Locke. Of course, there has to be a last-minute saviour from the poison, he's got three weeks or so left to find a totally impossible cure damnit! Plenty of time! There can't be a Jean without a Locke, they already massacred half the characters in book 1, you can't go killing your titular hero FFS, you just can't! Without Locke, Jean would just be all full of guilt for Lock being all noble and self-sacrificing and set himself up in a little corner somewhere, become the next Father Chains and be lonely forever and I WILL CRY AGAIN and that would suck. Because their love is so leaking out of the subtext despite Jean having a girlfriend this time round... LOCKE WAS ALL JEALOUS AND EMO WHEN THE GIRLY SEXINGS TOOK HIS JEAN AWAY!
Also, Locke can't die because we still don't know his REAL DAMN NAME YET. I don't know why this matters so much to me but it damn does. Also, Bondsmagi, there needs to be score-settling damnit!
Fuckin' October...
