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Aaaah.Patrick St-DenisI know this isn't exactly what most people want to hear. . . But I've reached the halfway point of THE REPUBLIC OF THIEVES and it is by far the weakest installment in the series. Still have a few hundred pages to go, so hopefully Lynch will turn this around before the end!
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Et le camarade Pat n'a donc pas du tout aimé.How many books are planned for the Gentleman Bastards series?Seven.Do you have any plans for any other series either in the same world or outside of it?Ideally, there will be an additional seven-book sequence set a generation after INHERIT THE NIGHT, bringing the story full circle for all the participants. Plus a number of smaller side projects.The world your characters inhabit has a late medieval early renaissance Italian vibe to it, is that a time and plce that interests you, and you would have written your world like that anyway or was it a case of coming up with a plot that involved conmen and organised crime and building a world that supported that plot element? Not sure if that question makes any sense, but it kind of does in my head.I love the study of the time period, but I originally set the story in something much closer to the 12th century than the 16th. I rapidly realized that the earlier world simply wasn't socially or economically complex enough, and not populated enough, to allow the sort of crime Locke & Co. practice. So I had to model it on Renaissance/Elizabethan lines to support my criminal plot elements.Have you ever thought about writing an additional series in a future Camorr (like 2 or 3 centuries later), like Brandon Sanderson has done with his Mistborn series?I gave it quite a bit of consideration, actually. The idea interested me (as a fan of Ray Feist's Midkemia books from way back when, I like the generational arcs of that story and would definitely like to play with something like that at some point), but I ultimately decided that I just couldn't swing it for Locke's world. These books focus in extreme detail on the life and times of Locke Lamora & Co., and the thing is... I don't have a character waiting in the wings to carry a similar level of scrutiny a hundred years later in the fictional world. Extending the timeline would feel imbalanced to me, if that makes any sense... many novels of loving detail followed by novels where I was essentially trying to fake it. And I can't do that.
Il compare tout de même Sabetha à... Nynaeve. 
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Je viens de finir Des horizons rouge sang et j'ai bien aimé. Alors oui il semble moins "pétillant" et trépidant que le premier qui bénéficiait de l'effet nouveauté ou claque. Pour ceux qui n'aiment pas trop les voyages en mer cela pourra sembler s'étirer parfois en longueur... personnellement je trouve toujours cela "poétique" les termes marins et les aventures navales (même si, ou peut-être parce, que je n'y connais rien en marine).Un très bon moment de lecture, des dialogues toujours truculents (mais le crudité pourrait lasser à force si elle n'est pas suffisament mise en valeur par un vocabulaire narratif bien ciselé), des intrigues intéressantes mais qui perdent parfois le rythme que l'on avait connu dans le premier volume. On sent peu à peu l'étendu du monde distillé doucement, même si cela reste pour le moment un peu trop superficiel à mon goût. On ne sent pas réellement la profondeur du monde, juste un "terrain de jeu". Avec 7 volumes prévus au total j'ai peur que le rythme s'amenuise, qu'un effet de répétition s'installe, que les rebondissements et les intrigues soient difficiles à renouveler. Pourtant on sent le potentiel de l'univers, des personnages, du récit, de l'auteur... je serai curieux de la suite à n'en pas douter. A suivre.
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J'ai commencé le 1er tome (une centaine de pages), et j'ai vu sur ce topic que vous parliez de diverses influences (Ocean's Eleven, Oliver Twist, Arsène Lupin...)Moi certains dialogues et plus particulièrement la rencontre entre Locke et Salvara (?) m'a fortement fait penser à du Molière.Qu'en pensez-vous?Rien?Eh bah tant mieux... 
