Reviews tagging 'Torture'

The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch

161 reviews

zerto's review against another edition

It was a bit too violent and vulgar for me. The flashback chapters were annoying and confusing. I don’t mind morally gray characters, but I couldn’t sympathize with any of the characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Death, and Death of parent

Minor: Slavery

Nazca’s dead body in a barrel of horse piss was horrific

salum's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Violence

Moderate: Child death and Death

gandalf_a's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Torture, Violence, Murder, and Classism

Moderate: Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Slavery, Vomit, Grief, Stalking, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Medical content, Trafficking, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Pandemic/Epidemic

aroace_ants's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Incredibly fun, it doesn’t end. It’s sad. He’s seven, he’s 25, he almost dies like four times, he dies once. THERE ARE SPIDERS THE SIZE OF DOGS. THEY SWORDFIGHT SHARKS. AND WIN

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Torture

Minor: Animal cruelty and Death of parent

kingkiller99's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

It took me a bit to get back into this book at the start, but once I was in it was thrilling to read about Locke Lamora and his successes (and many failures). I do hope to read the next once even though it took me a bit to get back into this. I was stressed reading about Locke potentially getting caught at times! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Murder

Minor: Animal death

janieboucher's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, Vomit, and Death of parent

Moderate: Police brutality

Minor: Animal death and Body shaming

peoplearescary's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Very fun worldbuilding and characters. I really enjoyed the setting (think a sort of fantasy Venice) and how fleshed out it felt. The characters all felt pretty three-dimensional with interesting motivations. I also enjoyed the way they and the world were expanded upon via the interludes at the end of each chapter, though I can see that slowing down the story in a bad way for other people.
Slightly more bloody than I thought going in, but not really a downside.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Violence

latenightwriter's review against another edition

adventurous funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

What a pleasant surprise this novel was. I'd be honored if anything I write could come close to it. Alas, I'll have to wait a day or so for its sequel to arrive in the mail, so I'll have to find another book to keep myself occupied with until then. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

cj13's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Kidnapping, and Classism

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic

katieroth25's review against another edition

adventurous challenging funny hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I picked up this book for its themes of brotherhood, found-family, and heist-adventure. It is all of these things in addition to an intricate plot and great character development. I really enjoyed the stories of little Locke and Chains. In some other stories, jumping back in time to visit your characters as children would seem superfluous. But no word, theme, side-story, flashback or piece of lore is wasted. It is all used to drive the story and characters to a satisfying conclusion!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Violence

Minor: Sexual content