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Logen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian, has finally run out of luck. Caught in one feud too many, he’s on the verge of becoming a dead barbarian – leaving nothing behind him but bad songs, dead friends, and a lot of happy enemies. Nobleman, dashing officer, and paragon of selfishness, Captain Jezal dan Luthar has nothing more dangerous in mind than fleecing his friends at cards and dreaming of glory in the fencing circle. But war is brewing, and on the battlefields of the frozen North they fight by altogether bloodier rules. Inquisitor Glokta, cripple turned torturer, would like nothing better than to see Jezal come home in a box. But then Glokta hates everyone: cutting treason out of the Union one confession at… More >>
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This book has one of the most stupid sentence I have read in a book . Jezal say in page 68 “he couldn’t afford to be seen walking.. with a fat girl on his arm. I’t could ruin his reputation”.
As a fat girl I thanks mister Abercrombie ,because I not going to buy the other two books , perhaps if a fat girl like me read his books could ruin his reputation .
Rating: 1 / 5
I bought this book from the Science Fiction Book Club and returned it without finishing the book. The swearing was excessive and offensive, and I found the writing to be very crude. So, not only did the book not have any fluidity in writing, but I found myself annoyed with what I was reading. Usually the SFBC gives a warning about excessive swearing, but they must have discontinued that practice, since there was no warning. So, I hope this will help other readers to be aware of the language in this book before purchasing.
Rating: 1 / 5
Books one and two are great pieces of work. Very impressive. Book three is a joke on the consumer. There is no ending. You’ve been warned.
Rating: 1 / 5
The first book in Joe Abercrombie’s “The First Law” series, entitled The Blade Itself, will feel very familiar to most veteran fantasy readers because it is essentially a duller version of George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire books. Without too much effort it is probably possible to match up each character in Abercrombie’s book with one of Martin’s characters (Abercrombie’s tortured torturer Sand dan Glokta and Martin’s beloved imp, Tyrion Lannister, are only the most obvious). The setting of a British isles inspired medieval land is also generally the same, as is the vague menace in the North and a variety of other plot parallels. Usually a comparison to Martin would be glowing praise, but in this case, Abercrombie does a C or C- job of mimicry at best. The dialogue fizzles, the plot is ponderous and without twists, the villains are not particularly compelling and neither are the heroes. In fact Abercrombie, despite packing his novel with torture, blood, romance, swordplay and magic, manages to turn out a boring and completely forgettable addition to the fantasy genre. The only high point in the whole book is Glotka’s two dentists speech, but it is short and the meme of toothlessness is otherwise beaten to death. I have nothing against Abercrombie’s use of the sincerest form of flattery itself, but the copy must still hold some weight on its own and not make the reader want to simply put it down half-way-through and pick up the original.
Rating: 1 / 5
This was not one of my favorite books. I didn’t mind so much that the author dropped the f-word every 20 seconds (even when it wasn’t needed). I did mind that it comes off as overdone, over the top, over baked. I like gritty sff as much as anybody but Abercrombie took the violence too far, and it was reminescent of some of the darker stuff in Goodkind’s SoT. For my taste, it was just pointless at times.
On the other hand, I did finish reading it. I thought it started out okay but then after 90 pages of so it just started to drag. I mean really really drag. I had to force myself to keep reading. It went on like this for the next 350 or so page and only started to move again toward the end only to leave you hanging. Unless you have absolutely nothing else remotely interesting to read I would not recommend this book.
Rating: 2 / 5