Red Seas Under Red Skies
Author – Scott Lynch
Paperback
Pages: 488 pages
Publisher: McArthur & Co / Orion Con Trad
Release Date: Jun 15 2006
ISBN-10: 0575079258
ISBN-13: 978-0575078024
Of all the novels being released this year, Red Seas Under Red Skies topped my list of most anticipated novels. This is doubly impressive when one considers that Red Seas Under Red Skies is only Scott Lynch’s second novel. His first novel, The Lies of Locke Lamora (review HERE) was just that damn good. It’s not often that a debut novelist comes out with the best book of the year, but in 2006 that was the truth.
So it was great anticipation that this summer began and I cracked open my nice shiny trade paperback copy of Red Seas Under Red Skies. I read eagerly, expecting to burn through the novel and finish it in record time. It’s summertime, I thought to myself, I’ve got all the time in the world to read!
It took me almost a month to finish.
As I read the novel, and as a took a couple of days to gather my thoughts into a more coherent pattern, I had a difficult time deciding how to review the novel. Do I review it as a sequel to The Lies of Locke Lamora (in which case it was a disappointment)? Or do I review it simply against all other novels equally (in which case it’s one of the best I’ve read this year)? In the end, I decided that the only fair route was to examine it from both angles and take a fair look at the novel that way.
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