First and foremost my thanks to Goodreads (and by extension Random House) for providing me with a copy of Half a King through First Reads. I was very excited to win this book as I've been meaning to read Abercrombie for years - there has been quite a bit of praise thrown in his direction and I wante...
This book had me turning pages late into the night, and it was worth it. You think you know the story--a prince who's the younger son and who's handicapped in a society of warriors is destined never to rule. But then his world is turned upside down. You expect this to be a young man's journey of d...
I enjoyed [b:Half a King|18666047|Half a King (Shattered Sea, #1)|Joe Abercrombie|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1389378321s/18666047.jpg|25641726], a bit more on the YA side but well built and fast paced. It's just perplexing that the author is [a:Joe Abercrombie|276660|Joe Abercrombie|https://d.gr-...
Since starting to read fantasy again several years ago, there have been a few authors whose names have been constantly whispered in my ear as the “it” writers to try: Peter V. Brett, Brent Weeks, Mark Lawrence, and especially Joe Abercrombie. From all the gushing, I was led to believe that reading a...
This novel had pretty much everything I enjoy about Abercrombie's writing. The characters all had their own depth to them. There was more going on with each of them than the main character was necessarily able to see. And at least one revelation about a particular character, Ankran, really caught...
This had that Abercrombie trademark proverbial prose and was worth reading but I gotta go with 3.5 stars when I compare it to his First Blade trilogy and it's spin-off [b:The Heroes|9300768|The Heroes|Joe Abercrombie|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1375671200s/9300768.jpg|12879765]. I miss Shivers and...
It's a new Joe Abercrombie! Huzzah! Bloody action sequences? Check. Someone falling over a cliff into a water-filled ravine? Check. Witty dialogue and complex characterization...? Let's see. I've read all of Abercrombie's previous books, and this one feels different. Half a King is the first of ...
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