Scott Lynch 2001
- What it is
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A plan for the big heist · comedy with teeth
- Genre
- Fantasy Crime Thriller
- Feels
- Funny Wry Defiant Adventurous Tense
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One more chapter, then another · fierce and defiant
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You'll finish it in two nights · you won't want to come back
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Like yours: found family · full of big ideas
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Like yours: found family
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Comedy with teeth · a myth or a classic told anew
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Comedy with teeth, but in science fiction
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Full of big ideas, but in science fiction
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Sharp and very funny, but in science fiction
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Sharp and very funny · odd and endearing
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