30 Day Book Playlist Challenge -- Day 16: Dark Ambient
Day 16: Name a book you've read that's humored or light in tone, but at the same time quite dark. If you can't think of any, a book with a dark thematic will suffice. (Dark ambient)
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Going with The Gentleman Bastard sequence for this one. Locke and his friends make me laugh so hard with their creative use of profanity and disregard for law and order, but the world they live in is dark and bleak, and at times very violent. That mix in tone is part of the reason why this series is so intriguing to me.
I have never laughed so hard as when Locke is in the middle of dying and he takes time out from his pain and suffering to taunt his enemy with a well-placed "Nice bird, asshole!" Which doesn't sound that funny out of context, but trust me, it is golden.
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