Perhaps you want an explanation for why my posting has been so sparse lately? Or perhaps since it has always been erratic it is what you expect from me. Well for those of you wondering, I've been busy with grad school and I have been spending an enormous/insanely stupid amount of time watching tv series that leaves little time for reading. And I have a million non-fiction books started and none finished. For those who don't expect much from me, your right! I am most likely to continue posting erratically. On the other hand, I think I will try to post a bit more than once every four months:) I don't want to jinx the continuing series so I will not say anything negative in this review. And folks, I've heard the third book is coming soon, according to Wikipedia The Republic of Thieves is due out in March.
So...Things I liked: Scott Lynch, Scott Lynch and Scott Lynch. Also the main characters Locke and Jean, and pirates! Especially women pirates, Zamira is awesome, managing to captain a pirate ship and be a mom to two rugrats, Ravelle comes in a close second as first in command of the pirate ship. And my favorite aspect was the kitten that adopts Locke (this is really not a spoiler - I think that particular kitten has three lines in the whole book). Although, I definitely could have done with more kittys.
Just so you don't make the same error I did. I kept waiting for Sabetha to appear, Locke's long ago love interest and friend, until I finally looked it up. People, she is not going to appear until the March book. So get ready. She is long awaited.
I've recently learned that scales from 1 to 5 are preferable to other number types. I guess scales from 1 to 7 are difficult to interpret. Scales from 1 to 10 have two weaknesses. One, they don't have a perfect middle like 3, instead it is 5.5. Second, people have a more difficult time relegating relative meaning to 10 points rather than five, so it also becomes more difficult to interpret. Or something like that. So I am changing my scale from 1 to 5 rather than 1 to 10.
Liked the book, enjoyed the book, want to read more of the Gentleman Bastard Series.
4.3 (And don't ask me how to interpret .3, my rating system is not yet a science;)
