![]() ![]() This, like all of Abercrombie’s work, is not a comfortable book. ![]() If that sounds like the kind of thing that churns your stomach, well, you’re missing out on a roaring tale and complex, intriguing characters. And if that sounds awesome to you, it is even better than you think. Gratefully, he has returned once again to the World of The First Law Trilogy with Red Country and one has to wonder if he has reached the bottom of the barrel – and hope he has not as this book is the best of the bunch since that original series ended. But before all of these, Joe Abercrombie slunk in the mud with his pack of despicable characters showing off the very worst in humanity. Previews for the new Tom Cruise movie, Oblivion, and recent films like The Hunger Games bear out the wide chasm between the have’s and the have not’s by focusing on the squalor of the common man. Les Miserables was an almost too realistic view of revolutionary France, with all of the dirt, grime, sores, blood, and sweat associated with a poor underclass society fighting for the right to take a bath once a week. There is a growing focus on gritty, dirty, realistic tales. “You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.” ![]()
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