Wow. Just finished, and that was a book that was just... wow. Made expectations, fulfilled them, broke them apart into little pieces and reassembled into a huge jagged collage of a work. Amazing. Glokta continues to be the character you would love to hate, except that he is the very essence of tor...
I was torn whether or not to give this book four or five stars, because finishing it has revealed this series to be an even more brilliant deconstruction of traditional fantasy tropes than I thought possible. But in the end I just can't give five stars to something I don't love, no matter how brilli...
Very rarely do I find a series (especially in a trilogy) where the later books actually outshine the first. Last Argument of Kings was so good, however, it kept me riveted the whole way through. Finally, everything the author had set up in the first two novels pays off in this one, making up for the...
A good but not great series (IMHO), and I'll tell you why.The plot: The series centers around the travails of a country called the Union and the characters' efforts to save it both from an invasion of Northern barbarians and one from southern crusaders (the Gurkish) led by a coven of cannibalistic s...
In the last book of the First Law Trilogy, Abercrombie throws fantasy tropes completely out the window. A long time reader, I was surprised at how things turned out, especially at how my preconceptions of the world and characters was turned on its head. The world of the First Law ended up being fa...
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