He has gone between letting the past stay buried and wanting to settle the score once and for all. Part of Shivers’ entire identity was the wrongs that had been done to him by the Bloody Nine. I’ve enjoyed his presence immensely in each book especially in the previous one BUT things aren’t quite adding up for me. I felt Abercrombie tried too hard to make it a tad too Tolkein-ish, with the idea of the fellowship and the “dragon.” Now I also love me some Shivers. He ended up turning a bit sociopathic and child-killing is something I thought that even he was incapable of.Īlso and bear with me if this sounds a little bit on the strange side but this is literally how I feel.

Also, Abercrombie is renowned for his stellar characterisations, but, one character, in particular, Cosca ended up falling, it isn’t what was expected from him. I understand that a new novel based in an entirely new area needs build-up but it just failed to grasp my imagination, unlike, the previous novel, The Heroes. Why do you ask? Firstly, it was slow as all hell. I was very excited at the prospect of a western type fantasy novel but it fell flat. Red Country for me anyway, was a bit of a departure for the First Law Series. This novel also represents the return of Logen Ninefingers, one of Abercrombie's most beloved characters. Red Country takes place in the same world as the First Law trilogy, Best Served Cold, and The Heroes. Even worse, it will force them into an alliance with Nicomo Cosca, infamous soldier of fortune, and his feckless lawyer Temple, two men no one should ever have to trust. Their journey will take them across the barren plains to a frontier town gripped by gold fever, through feud, duel and massacre, high into the unmapped mountains to a reckoning with the Ghosts. And out in the lawless Far Country the past never stays buried. But it turns out Lamb's buried a bloody past of his own. She sets off in pursuit with only a pair of oxen and her cowardly old step father Lamb for company. Shy South hoped to bury her bloody past and ride away smiling, but she'll have to sharpen up some bad old ways to get her family back, and she's not a woman to flinch from what needs doing. Genres: Fiction, Fantasy, Epic, Action & Adventure, WesternsĪ New York Times bestseller!They burned her home.They stole her brother and sister.But vengeance is following. Published by Gollancz on November 13, 2012

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