Red Seas Under Red Skies Read-Along, Part 1

So, following the read along for The Lies of Locke Lamora, Little Red Reviewer, SF Signal, Lynn’s Book Blog, and Dark Cargo have decided to continue on with a read along for Red Seas Under Red Skies, the sequal. How could I resist, since I love these books so ridiculously? Questions this week supplied by My Awful Reviews, so thank you for that! I am going to do my best to answer these questions with no spoilers past the reading for the week!

1. The Sinspire. It looks like our heroes (can they really be called that?) find themselves in search of a way into an unbeatable vault. Do you think they have what it takes to make it happen?

To be honest, given what we know about the Gentlemen Bastards, I think any job that they take on, they can do. I think they’re smart enough that, if it’s avoidable, they won’t do a job that they can’t reasonably expect to finish — reasonable in their terms, obviously, since their sense of reason is quite a bit different than mine!

2.  Anyone want to guess how they’re going to make it happen?

Avoiding this question for spoiler purposes.

3. It’s a little different this time around, with us just being focused on Locke and Jean. Is anyone else missing the rest of the Bastards as much as I am?

I miss them so much! It makes me all sad that they’re doing this as a duo, instead of as a gang, because the gang as a whole was so… perfect and complete. However, I do like seeing Locke and Jean working through the aftermath of everything that happened, and finding a new dynamic just as a duo.

4. I love the section where Jean starts to build a new guild of thieves. It really shows just how well trained and tough he is. Do you think the Bastards will end up training others along the way again like Bug?

Whether they will or not? I don’t really know. I don’t think so, but I don’t know how much of that is leaking over from the fact that I don’t really want them to. It would be difficult for it not to feel like they’re replacing the people that they lost, and that’s the last thing I want to think. However, if anyone could write it and have it not feel that way, I suppose it would be Scott Lynch. Still though, I’d rather just continue on with Locke and Jean, and maybe some Sabetha thrown into the mix at some point!

5. For those of you looking for Sabetha, we still haven’t spotted her yet. Anyone else chomping at the bit to see the love of Locke’s life?

I WANT TO MEET HER SO BAD BECAUSE I JUST KNOW THAT SHE WILL BE SO AWESOME!

Uh, sorry. Little bit of excitement leaking through there.

6. It’s early on, but the Bastards are already caught up in plots that they didn’t expect. How do you think their new “employer” is going to make use of them (The Archon, that is)?

I guess this is another one I should really not answer in order to avoid spoilers, but I will say this… I think the boys should be getting used to always having things happening to them that they don’t expect. Poor boys! Fun for us though.