Together their domain is the city of Camorr. Built of Elderglass by a race no-one remembers, it’s a city of shifting revels, filthy canals, baroque palaces and crowded cemeteries. Home to Dons, merchants, soldiers, beggars, cripples, and feral children. And to Capa Barsavi, the criminal mastermind who runs the city.

I recommend this book to all fantasy lovers and also people who like Mafia books with a twist. I think this book would be a great introduction for anyone wanting to start reading fantasy. Welcome to Camorr, the city that harbours questionable characters, morally grey individuals and a wide selection of rich nobles that quite literally beg to be robbed and spoiled. If you’re an innocent and clueless noble you better don’t dwell all too long. You might either end up relieved of the weight of your purse or even worse, you might end up being spoiled for the book! This was a fair warning; the rest is up to you. ;-P

You're one third bad intentions, one third pure avarice, and one eighth sawdust. What's left, I'll credit, must be brains.” Merrain in the second book is working for someone other than Stragos, but we don't learn who it is.

Markos killing Gervain in the interlude chapter "The Tale of the Old Handball Players" - thirty-five years after the handball game that ruined their friendship. I know that a lot of you love books that give detailed descriptions of the character's surroundings. I know, I know, I know! Boulidazi, who spends a good chunk of his time in Republic of Thieves perving on Sabetha, and whose last act is trying to rape Jenora, is mortally wounded by the latter and finished off by the former.Samus Is a Girl: The Spider. Sabetha notes that she always suspected this given that the only detail ever stated certainly about the Spider was that he was a man, so it must be false.

I will have the Grey King, and if all the powers of Camorr and Karthain and Hell itself oppose me, it will be nothing – nothing but a longer trail of corpses between me and your master.” well. maybe that's a teensy bit unfair. the dowager was wildly entertaining. but everyone else? i can think of only one who is not the dowager, invisible, murdered, a whore, or of no real utility whatsoever until someone needs an alchemist at a party. Eldritch Abomination: Most of the Bondsmagi believe that the Eldren died because they attracted the attention of one of these. They are concerned that the same thing could happen to humans if they don't keep their magic low-key. This is the ultimate collector's edition of a fantasy phenomenon, available exclusively from the Gollancz Emporium.

Greater-Scope Villain: The third book implies the existence of one; apparently whatever force destroyed the Eldren may still be around, and much of what the Bondsmagi do is based around keeping it from returning. But when I went to request the next book, I found myself sort of shuddering at the thought of slogging through any more of these guys' adventures.