The Lies of Locke Lamora

The novel has 2 timelines: a past one, fast, entertaining and witty, a 4/5. And a present one that tries too hard to be entertaining and witty and is just boring and overburdened with uninteresting, unoriginal worldbuilding, yet not enough characters' building. And definitely not believable at all in its schemes. A 2/5 at most. The average would be 3, but i'll lower it further not because of the author, but of the many reviews pretending this is another “Name of the Wind”. No, not even nearly, and that comparison set my expectations too high and the dissappointment was sharper. I will not read the rest of the trilogy, though I already got them.