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A Little Hatred

Joe Abercrombie

4.41 AVERAGE

adventurous dark funny fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A
dark funny tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous emotional tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Wish I would have had a map to try and place everything. Glad I had the character breakdown in the back of the book. The first 300 pages was just trying to piece the world together and then it really picked up. Enjoyed it ok, really looking forward to the rest of the series.
adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

A Little Hatred is my 7th? book by Joe Abercrombie and his books keep getting better and better. Unfortunately, I also have realized he will probably never be a five star author as all of his novels are over the top grotesque, to be point where I need breathers in between reading them. In spite of the blood and gore and genuinely dislikable characters, the plots and character work are impeccable. A Little Hatred picks up about 20 or so years at the end of the First Law Trilogy, and the world is in the middle of an industrial revolution. The reader will see many familiar characters which was a lot of fun and I'm excited to finish the trilogy.
dark funny fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

The balance of a larger cast of characters was done well, with most of the major players getting solid development. The plot struggled to really do anything beyond advance those developments until the final act of the book. The different perspectives of events was a great touch, that added more weight to the tense parts of the story, especially for the major characters involved. 
adventurous funny mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes