The Lies of Locke Lamora

Life is too short to read bad books. Well... The Lies of Locke Lamora isn't a bad book. In fact, it is well beloved by many readers, nominated by many as one of the best Fantasy books ever written, and Gentleman Bastards are mentioned as one of the best Fantasy series, even when it's not even finished. I think there's three books in the series of seven, or something like that. I cannot correctly judge the writing or language or anything like that, all I can say if I like it or not.And I don't like this.I can't stand the hopping around the timeline. It's the same with [b:Borgmästaren 43662568 Borgmästaren Tina Westerlund https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1548086274l/43662568.SY75.jpg 67932900]. I find it irritating, that we read a couple of pages with Locke being 5, a couple of pages where he's like 25 or something, then he's like 10, and so on and so forth, hop hop hop... in many cases the jump isn't even relevant to the story. In some places it gives a bit more information to the situation, but often it's just a cliffhanger. I hate that. Also, I don't care about the heist story. I couldn't care less whether they succeed or if they are very clever or not. I have read 1/4 of the story (and this is over 700 pages book), so I assume that's what this story is. I just can't be bothered. I am not interested in these characters. They refer to this girl every now and then, and I jawn. I don't care about his romance. I don't care about their friendship, how ever amazing it is. I find the world building wonderful, the underground city, the graveyard situation, all that, absolutely amazing. I love Chains. But - Yawn. No.