Episodic & somewhat predictable. Touched a bit by the picaresque and the revenge tragedy, but ultimately distinguishable from both. Kinda annoying that everyone in the setting self-consciously re-affirms that "these are the Years of Blood." Seems like that's a designation that would come up only ...
AKA "Abercrombie and the Ultimate Anti-Heroes." Here's the short review: reading Best Served Cold is like being a guest judge on 'Iron Chef America: Sardines.' Sure, there's some incredible stuff happening--but still... it's sardines . And would you really want to eat like that every day?The long ...
Abercrombie's prose is tight and evocative and just a little bit (okay, a lot) profane. In that regard, this book is just as good as his First Law trilogy, but I just didn't enjoy myself as much in this one. It took me forever to get through, and while I always had a good time while I was reading th...
Monza Murcatto is a bad ass. And I love bad ass characters. Holy crap, was this an amazing read! So much death and destruction, and the ending was... well, I guess as close to a happy one as we could get in such a world. Highly recommended to any lover of dark fantasy.
3.5 stars. I liked it! But I'm rounding down however to show that I didn't like it as much as The First Law trilogy. Somewhere in the back of my mind, I think I knew that right away. First of all, I dove in knowing it was going to be tale of revenge, given the title and all, but I realized not long ...
The only way I can give 3 stars to Best Served Cold is if I read it in the spirit of that wonderfully campy B-movie horror classic of revenge The Abominable Dr. Phibes, starring Vincent Price and Joseph Cotton and the incomparably lovely Caroline Munro (though she’s dead and doesn’t have anything to...
A solid plot, well told in a single volume, which is getting more rare among fantasy books these days. The book has some moments that elicit a definite cringe-factor and a few adults-only scenes so it's not appropriate for kids. I found the characters to be a bit less engaging than his previous tril...
I'm waffling between three and four stars for this book.And it is impossible to say without giving away spoilers, darn it!Joe Abercrombie has a reputation of writing books that are good but that are populated with deeply flaw characters, characters who are unheroic. He somewhat does it again here.A...
If you enjoyed Abercrombie's prior books (The First Law series) chances are good you'll like this one too. Not a very detailed review is it? No, I guess not and it does tend to ignore everyone who hasn't read a prior Abercrombie book (what? you haven't? Go read them, they are very good!). Okay, we...
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