Snowflakes and Spider Silk

One of my favorite things about this book is getting to know the Gentleman bastards as children and as they grow older. Obviously, I love that the flashbacks let me see Calo, Galdo, and Chains again, but I also love how they shed so much light on who the Gentleman Bastards are today. The Thorn of Camorr "The Rose of the Marrows,  they'll say...." "Are we all going to need stupid nicknames, then?" said Calo. "We could be...the Shrubs of the North." "The Weeds of Vintila," said Galdo. "And if you're a rose," said Caldo, "Lock's going to need something as well." "He can be a tulip..." "...Nah, if she's the rose, he can he her thorn. The Thorn of Camorr!  Now that's got some shine to it!" "That's the dumbest f---ing thing I've ever heard," said Locke. Isn't it great how the fabled Thorn of Camorr actually originated as a bunch of Sanza nonsense?...

Now that we've finally met Sabetha, we get to open a whole new world of fan art >:) It seems like people are either "Love her" or "hate her", and it's a lot of fun to see all the different interpretations of our mysterious gentle-lady bastard. The mysterious sultry gaze Sabetha   by Crimson Cobweb s This is the version of Sabetha I associate with Locke's heartbroken fantasies and memories. Locke has made it no secret that his favorite thing about her is that red hair, and look at how prominent it is in every picture of her! This is my least favorite facet of her, because she's hardly a person. This is the mysterious, shadowy force in the background before we get to see her in the flesh in The Republic of Thieves. The Badass Who Can Outdo Locke From  The Lynch of Locke Lamora We have already seen baby Sabetha kick ass and out-con Locke at Coin Kisser's row. It is going to be so much fun watching her take...

I've been wanting to do more than 2 posts a week for the readalong, but it's hitting me that 1) This readalong is going for 3 months and I need to have things to talk about for that long 2) Life is CRAZY so I probably shouldn't commit to that much considering how sporadically I usually post on my blog. 3) I can't talk about a lot of things I want to because we haven't gotten far enough in the book(s) yet ! So look out for more detailed discussion posts later on :) My hardest final is tomorrow, and then I'm officially done with another year of undergrad! So here's a little bit of Lies of Locke Lamora fan art to tide you over until next time. Rest assured that I'm bookmarking things like a fiend so that I can share more cool stuff with you all later on :) Since we're still in the middle of the Salvara con, here is a fan's vision of our friend Lukas Fehrwight: By    TolmanCotton  on DeviantArt Just look at those stuffy spect...