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Review: Red Country – Joe Abercrombie
When Shy and her surrogate-father Lamb return home from a trip to the village to sell the crops, they find the farm burned, Shy’s brother and sister gone and their caretaker hanged. A determination and a flicker of wrath stir in the otherwise placid Lamb, and they set out to chase the perpetrators. Elsewhere in the Near Country, Temple, chief lawyer and secretary to the washed-up mercenary captain-general Niccomo Cosca, has seen enough of the company’s ‘heroics’.
Review: The Heroes – Joe Abercrombie
The Heroes follows a set of characters on two sides of a bloody battle between the Union and the North. Switching perspectives from hour to hour, The Heroes goes into all the muddy, gruelling detail we expect from Abercrombie, and then some.
Review: The Last Argument of Kings – Joe Abercrombie
Part three in the First Law Trilogy – Logen returns to the North to face his old demons, Jezal returns to home to a different life, and Inquisitor Glokta returns to Adua, expecting to be assassinated the moment he disembarks from his ship…
Review: Before They Are Hanged – Joe Abercrombie
Part two in the First Law Trilogy – The first of the magi goes on a quest across the world in search for an artifact that only he understands, Inquisitor Glokta is sent to a Union colony to solve the murder of his predecessor, and Colonel West is sent to the North to defend civilsation itself.
Review: The Blade Itself – Joe Abercrombie
Part one in the First Law Trilogy – Enter the grim dark world of Joe Abercrombie’s debut novel, featuring a cast of twisted characters struggling to find meaning in a world that is frayed by war and injustice.
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