The closest the story comes is that at one point it was implied to be about to happen off screen in the midst of an uprising. Despite the visceral brutality, there is no rape. Violence isn’t constant but when it happens, it’s grim. If grisly combat descriptions about splattering brain matter, limbs being hacked off, and gouts of dark blood, or the casual use of the word ‘cunt’ are problematic for you, then pass on these books. At author events he expressed that he thought it worked out well but isn’t eager to replicate the feat. It has been interesting following along with his writing adventures online. Once that was finished he shared about coming to a deal with his publisher to write all three volumes of his newest trilogy at once, and then release a book a year, so no waiting years between books! The impetus for the idea was so that by writing it all together, he could go backwards and forwards changing or updating as the story unfolded, and not have any awkward surprises while writing the third book, when it’s too late to change anything.

A few years ago Abercrombie put out a YA fantasy series that I was overall disappointed with, excellent first book, second was okay, third was a big let down. But for whatever reason I never picked up the standalone volumes that occurred afterwards. It was unlike any fantasy I had read up to that point and I tore through it. In the mid 2000’s I discovered Joe Abercrombie’s gritty and brutal “First Law Trilogy”.

Isern-i-Phail – “One man’s mad is another’s remarkable” Savine dan Glotka – “One man’s mad is another’s perceptive”

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