Jaye's Musings

Over the past two or three years, Joe Abercrombie has become one of my favourite authors and one I will run out and buy whenever he has a new book out, as well as the Kindle version and Audiobook. He write dirty, dark, brutal fantasy, but for all the violence and messiness, his characters are so very real, none perfect, all very flawed.

His books are:
The First Law Trilogy:
The Blade Itself
Before They Are Hanged
Last Argument of Kings

Standalone but set in the same world:
Best Served Cold
The Heroes
Red Country

Sharp Ends (a collection of short stories set in the same world),

( You have to realistic about these things*. )

All in all, if you like your fantasy dirty and bloody, enjoy certain tropes being turned on their head, with engaging, flawed characters, and can overlook the author's weakness (though improving) in writing women, it's definitely worth a read...and one of the few series (next review will be the other) that I will recommend to anyone who shows the slightest interest in fantasy or swords.

I give it a 9.5/10

(* Quote from Ninefingers throughout the series)