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"Quindi tendi a cacarti sotto in certe situazioni.
E chi non lo fa Tu non sei il prode cavaliere, io non sono la fanciulla svenevole e questo non è un libro di favole, poco ma sicuro.
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Grandi personaggi, forti emozioni e tanta miseria ai confini del mondo,

Mi mancava solo questo romanzo per finire il ciclo della Prima Legge e il buon Joe anche stavolta mi ha trascinato nel suo mondo brutale e pieno di gente poco incline alla civiltà.


La qualità del romanzo è su alti livelli, perlomeno per i miei gusti, dove ad una trama avvincente si unisce una scrittura che focalizza il suo meglio nel creare dialoghi brillanti, che affievoliscono, ma non snaturano, le situazioni altamente drammatiche e le gesta sanguinose mostrate in abbondanza.
Abercrombie non si risparmia mai e da questi dialoghi dipinge dei personaggi memorabili, come la giovane Shy Sud, il misterioso Agnello e il codardo Tempio, ma anche tanti comprimari che non si limitano ad essere semplici comparse, ognuno approfondito nell'intimo pensiero.
Personaggi che evidenziano sempre l'indiscusso talento di Abercrombie come in tutti i suoi romanzi, uno migliore dell'altro, indistintamente.


Abercrombie quindi si conferma degno successore di Gemmell e con il ciclo della Prima Legge uno dei miei autori preferiti.
Serie imperdibile ma non per i deboli di stomaco, I love me some Abercrombie, his style is so

snarky and detailed and dirty, I love how with a few sentences he can fill out a minor character so well that you actually feel sorry when they're killed in passing.


This is NOT really a fantasy book though guys, it'sWestern, If you've read his other books you'll recognize several characters, but you don't REALLY need to read the others to get into this.
If you don't like Westerns move along doggy, but this is worth reading for sure, .stars. The best of the First Law singles

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This book was pure enjoyment for me, in part due to how good it is written, and in part due to my lower expectations.
I have not liked the First Law singles as much as the original trilogy, but this book hits very close to the quality of that trilogy.


Cosca is an amazing character in this book and legitimately had me laughing out loud at how funny he is.
I didn't enjoy him half as much in his previous times in this series as I did here.
I also loved that "lamb" was in this book, even though it's obvious within the first few pages what his true identify is.
I actually think his character would have been weakened if Abercrombie kept it a true surprise, His need for a new identity makes sense, while still being able to appreciate who he is,

I also didn't realize how much I needed a fantasy western in my life, It seems obvious now that I think about it, I love westerns, and I love fantasy books, So mesh them together and you get quite the wonderful product,

I couldn't quite justify giving this bookbecause it didn't have that "grand" scale that hit the highest of high marks that some of the first books in the series hit.
But it's awfully close, and a must read for anyone who is either an Abercrombie fan, or a western fan.
This book was good. In fact it was very,very good, I loved Abercrombie's sitelinkThe First Law Trilogy so much and it was a delight to see the return of a few of his strongest characters from those books.
Plus there were a few new characters who managed to steal the show, sitelinkJoe Abercrombie is without doubt a very talented author, His characters are always so flawed and yet still so appealing, his stories are full of grossness and violence yet are still so very readable and his handling of the English language is impeccable.
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“Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.
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Best Served Cold/
The Heroes
Red Country/

As you can see from the above ratings, Red Country was somewhere in the middle between The Heroes and Best Served Cold.
For now BSC will hold its place as my favorite Abercrombie book!!

This is more like BSC in the way it is told because Shy who is the Protagonist is trying to search for her siblings.
Her step father Lamb is with her in this journey, On the other hand we have Cosca and his group trying to get richer,

The writing is good because it is Abercrombie and I am no stranger to his writing.
I love how he mixes humor, banter and serious quote in a mix that works very well, I also love how his characters have key phrases which is realistic and I think more authors should be doing that! On the other hand, I think it was too long for no good reason and I found myself bored in the lastor so.
I was checking how many minutes I have to read with my kindle and I was kind of detached.
Also throughout the book, there were moments that really pulled me in and moments that bored me out and I was thinking of everything but the book.


The characters are great and Abercrombie is a master when it comes to that, Lamb was my favorite and I have to embarrassingly admit that it took me more time than it should have done to know he is.
Shy is a cool addition to the world and there are characters we already know that keeps improving just like Shivers.
I liked Cosca in BSC much more than in this book because he was like central to the story but then we leave his narrative for a good chunk of pages before coming back to them.

“The trouble with running is wherever you run to, there you are, ”

The pacing was kind of weird, as I said previously, some parts were more interesting than the others which affected my perception of the pacing.
I felt it was fast sometimes and slow other times,

The worldbuilding was something I am afraid of because I am not a fan of Western stories, something I dreaded before reading the second era of Mistborn before realizing I should have trusted Sanderson and I can say the same about Abercrombie, I had no problem with the western settings and it felt like a real extension of his world that we know so I respect that!

“Better to have steel to hand and find no trouble than find yourself in trouble with no steel to hand.
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Summary: I think overall it was an average book with the usual great writing and characters.
I think the plot and pacing were not interesting for me at more than one point and that the book kept going on more than it should have.
Anyway, I am closer to the Age of Madness Trilogy so I regret nothing!,

Shy South, a tough frontierswoman is returning from a trip to get supplies with her stepfather Lamb, a battered old Northman whose size and strength bely his gentleness.
Their friendly banter is interrupted by the discovery that their home has been burned, a friend murdered and Shy's young brother and sister kidnapped.
Amidst this horror 'Lamb' is strangely calm, Looking down at his scarred, battered hands, hands with onlyfingers, he reflects that sometimes 'you have to be realistic'.
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THE BLOODY NINE!!! So after blitzing through the firstbooks in this series I had planned to take a break before reading this one.
But when I had some time to kill I glanced through this first chapter and, . . THE BLOODY NINE!!! Logen Nine Fingers has left all he knew behind and started again, He's made himself into the kind of man he always wanted to be, the kind of man he was on the plains, the kind of man his father was.
But when you're 'made of death' you don't get to choose what kind of man you are, In the early chapters especially, Logen dominates this book, The struggle between 'Lamb' the good man he wants to be and 'The Bloody Nine' the killer who revels in destruction at the core of his being is gripping.


It's weird that in this book that hascharacters Temple and Shy that monopolise POV chapters more than in any other Abercrombie work so far the book is still dominated by a character without a single POV.
While some readers have complained about it, I thought that the decision to not give Logen any POV's was a great one.
It creates added tension as we never know what he's going to do next, It was also interesting to view Logen's actions through the eyes of other people, It was especially powerful to see Shy's shock at the brutal actions of her kind,gentle stepfather, Logen's arc of redemption and violence was written beautifully, My only complaint was the ending, After reading Logen's arc in both the trilogy and here I felt that Logen's story could only end in his death.
After how far he had relapsed into the Blood Nine I didn't see any way he could go back.
Especially after his behaviour towards the kids later on in this book it seemed inevitable that he would follow the Western maxim 'Live by the gun, die by the gun'.
The fact that he never atoned to the children and ultimately rode off into the sunset seemed at odds with the theme, both in Westerns and Abercrombie's work, of violence repaying violence.


So there were other characters in this book as well, I think. I don't really remember because, . THE BLOODY NINE! Shy was a pretty cool protagonist and I loved her interactions with Logen, I didn't like her obligatory bloody past something Abercrombie seems determined to attach to pretty much all of his main characters as it didn't really affect the story in any meaningful way and it would have been nice to see a 'tough' Abercrombie character who wasn't also a killer.
With the exception of Finree, Shy is now my favourite Abercrombie female POV, While her tough, scarred warrior woman personality was similar to both Monza and Ferro, Shy did a better job of keeping my interest and sympathy throughout the story.
Temple was a pretty enjoyable character, He seemed dull and listless initially but as the novel progressed he became more interesting, His relationship with Shy was especially wellwritten and the contrast between the two characters and how they learn from each other was nicely handled.
Cosca returns, albeit in a depressing fashion, He's become a complete monster, burning towns and murdering innocents without remorse, Despite being mostly unsympathetic in this book I was saddened by his death.
For the first time in this book he was beginning to show some depth as a character, his abrupt death felt disappointingly anticlimactic and hollow .
Friendly also returned but was largely left in the background and we didn't get to see much of his awesome bromance with Cosca, which bummed me out.
A returning character whose been criminally overlooked is Carlot Dan Eider ahem 'The Mayor', Prior to Finree my favourite Abercrombie female she's still among my favourite secondary characters, Here she's as tough, smart and ruthless as ever,

I'm not really a big fan of Westerns and I didn't really enjoy this setting, It was especially strange to see a Western setting without guns, It just felt wrong. This was especially evident when Logen and that rebel leader were surrounded in a building towards the end, Butch and Sundance style.
It was a shootout without guns and it felt weird, Also in that scene Logen's decapitation trick felt like a really cheap gimmick and the reaction to a bunch of severed heads by a hardened soldier/murderous zealot was really overdramatic.
However the plot itself made brilliant use of the staple western themes of violence and redemption while Abercrombie's gritty style was reminiscent of the best westerns.


This was an engaging read where new characters mixed smoothly with old favourites, the plot was wellwritten with plenty of twists and turns and the tone and recurring themes were true to both the Western genre and Abercrombie's trademark style.
I'm really excited to read Abercrombie's next instalment in the series,
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