The Republic of Thieves

Like everyone else, I've waited for this book for a long time, as Lynch has had a number of personal life issues to work through. It pains me to say I am unhappy with the eventual result.

I was pretty excited when I picked it up on release day, but it didn't last. It jumps back and forth between a flashback and present-day; it's been so long since I read the first two books that I don't recall it, but I'm reliably informed that the first two did this as well. Regardless, I found neither especially compelling. Characters' actions are sometimes inexplicable because their motivations aren't reasonable. The will-they-won't-they relationship between Locke and Sabetha is more irritating than anything else. I felt like Sabetha sometimes said and did the things she did not because they made any sense, but because she had to to get her character where Lynch wanted her to go.

Sad to say this did not live up to my expectations.