![]() ![]() The initial companions of our main character, ‘The Bloody-Nine,’ or Logan, are pretty much the only characters capable of trust and unity, and this group would probably be considered the bad guys in any other fantasy tale. What it lacks in natural warmth it makes up for in friction. Abercrombie’s twitter name is LordGrimdark, and it’s perfectly fitting. But when characters aren’t fighting they’re talking about violence, reeling from the impact of it or scheming to perpetrate or (sometimes) avoid it. Violence takes center stage, though the book is not a constant fight. ![]() In this type of fantasy our worst is written on every page, and our best gets only the slimmest chance to survive.Ī master fighter of old, a crippled interrogator from the Inquisition, a haughty young noble learning to fence, a mysteriously fierce young foreigner and The First of the Magi are centered at the core of this tale as their paths weave together and eventually collide. You look to this world for injury and dirt, grim determination, fatalistic pessimism and no small portion of truth. You don’t look to this world like you might many others in the genre, with faces raised to the sun and to bask in the glory of battlefield honor, of beautiful elven folk, fairies and wondrous sprites sparkling glitter everywhere. The fantasy world of blood and decay on display here, populated by the downtrodden and the corrupt, could possibly be called Anti-Fantasy. “I’ve settled a few scores in my time, but it only led to more.” ![]()
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