Red Seas Under Red Skies
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Pros
- In Scott Lynchs Red Seas Under Red Skies there's a section where the ship has to pass through the Parlor Passage to get to Port Prodigal. There's an entity there that's so powerful it calls psychically to the crew to come ashore. It has...
- Red Seas Under Red Skies comes to mind
- I really enjoyed >!Jean and Ezri's !<romance subplot in Red Seas Under Red Skies. In particular, the scene in which >!Ezri thinks he isn't interested because he keeps leaning away from her, when he's actually just farsighted and is leani...
- Maybe i'm odd, but I actually enjoyed the second one just as much, if not more, than the first one. It had great quips in it, and it throws Locke into a position where he isn't comfortable.
- I absolutely loved it. You think you're getting another fun heist book like the first and then PIRATES.
Cons
- My biggest gripe with it is that it feels like the first book but worse with about a hundred pages worth of sailing training and terminology that I did not care about. ... It's not bad. It was disappointing and killed my interest in goin...
- A wildly disappointing book. I have no idea why Lynch took a swing at writing a sailing section. A bad book that goes nowhere.
- I actually really disliked book 2 for quite some time because, without spoiling too much, the big heist gets sidetracked by an annoying arsehole and it takes quite some time to get back on track
- I like Red Seas Under Red Skies, but it's a very different setting. Because it's pirates, and the heist elements are... Kind of backgrounded.
Sentiment
10 positive (71%) · 2 mixed (14%) · 2 negative (14%)
Trust + time weighted score: +58% · raw score 57%
What redditors said (10 of 14)
In Scott Lynchs Red Seas Under Red Skies there's a section where the ship has to pass through the Parlor Passage to get to Port Prodigal. There's an entity there that's so powerful it calls psychically to the crew to come ashore. It has no relevance to the plot as a whole but makes for an insanely intense section that fills the world out a little bit more.
Red Seas Under Red Skies comes to mind
I really enjoyed >!Jean and Ezri's !<romance subplot in Red Seas Under Red Skies. In particular, the scene in which >!Ezri thinks he isn't interested because he keeps leaning away from her, when he's actually just farsighted and is leaning away to better see her face !<is a sweet, funny scene.
My biggest gripe with it is that it feels like the first book but worse with about a hundred pages worth of sailing training and terminology that I did not care about. ... It's not bad. It was disappointing and killed my interest in going further into the series.
Maybe i'm odd, but I actually enjoyed the second one just as much, if not more, than the first one. It had great quips in it, and it throws Locke into a position where he isn't comfortable.
I absolutely loved it. You think you're getting another fun heist book like the first and then PIRATES.
I really liked the second book.
I enjoyed it a lot. The first is by far my favorite of the two. But it was still fun.
A wildly disappointing book. I have no idea why Lynch took a swing at writing a sailing section. A bad book that goes nowhere.
I agree, everyone talked shit, I read it, 5 stars.
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