An Overly Excited Opinion of... Half a King by Joe Abercrombie

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As a person way too fond of puns I really wanted to say that reading Joe Abercrombie's Half a King was a tale of two halves, but that wouldn't be fair. It's a tale of around 85% fantastic fun and 15% that I didn't enjoy and found pretty annoying at times. It does seem as though I'm in the minority with this view as Half a King is doing very strongly for ratings on goodreads. Be that as it may, it didn't blow my socks off and here's why. 

An Overly Excited Opinion of... The Lies of Locke Lamora

Master criminals are not your run of your mill heroes, and confidence tricksters are not your run of the mill master criminals. Therefore, it's fitting that a book focused on the exploits of a rather exceptional confidence trickster is rather exceptional itself. Such a book would be very easy to get excited about, so here is my Overly Excited Opinion of The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch.