SECOND READ 2023
Started re-reading the series.
It's much better on the re-read, I have to say. The uneven writing no longer bothers me, now that I know that the story is all good and, dare I say it for these books, entertaining :-)

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FIRST READ 2015:
Quick impressions:
Refreshing premise, very interesting.
The writing is rough and unpolished. I don't mean "gritty". I mean untried, uncertain and a little bit uneven. Like the writing of a student. Maybe it is because of the use of soliloquy as an important element.
But the story makes more than up for that. Fast-paced, twisty. It is as twisty as I would have wanted the books in the Locke Lamorra series had wanted to be. I was never surprised by the outcome, everything is easy to figure out, but the fact is that I still enjoyed following the leads.

You can clearly feel the influences of Donaldson and Leiber in this book. In a good way.

The narrator takes some getting used to. He gets better but his manner of speech is thick and sticky. It gets more sleek and in fact quite appropiate to the book further in the story. Or maybe i'm getting used to the voice.