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4.41 AVERAGE
4.41 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
tense
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:
Yes
dark
sad
tense
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
adventurous
dark
funny
tense
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:
Yes
dark
emotional
funny
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
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
So the way the book was sold to me, was its a fantasy world moving away from magic and towards a world of industrialization. That sounded really fucking cool to me! Unfortunately, this is actually a fantasy world with no magic (or at least none I could see), and it reads more about the perils of industrialization than anything else. I've been told magic does exist in this world by the characters, but the book is far more concerned with the two plotlines of a fantasy war you've seen before and a workers uprising on the other side of the continent.
Both of which end suddenly despite the book having a whole quarter of its length left. That quarter is devoted to an incredibly long epilogue mostly spent closing out characters and setting up the next book. I got a strong impression it's the next book Abercombie really wants me to read, and that my time with A Little Hatred was just set up for the real story.
And I kinda hate that? This is my first time reading Abercombie and while his prose is good, characters well rounded, it just didn't grab me with its setting despite how invested I was from the get-go from the premise alone. All the characters were deeply flawed individuals that I knew on paper were good characters, but most of them I really didn't care to root for. The big moments where they should have proven themselves to me felt small. The climaxes of their arcs ramp up the story very quick but die down just as fast.
Despite everything, it's a good book, and overall I think I enjoyed my time with it, but as my first time reading Joe Abercombie, I'm leaving this feeling really let down. Going through some other reviews, I got kinda bamboozled thinking this book was its own trilogy (It is but isn't, a trait I have never liked about fantasy series and a big reason I stayed away from the genre for so long), when its a continuation of another and I wonder how much context I needed for this? I was able to follow the plot very clearly and it never felt like I needed the other trilogy, but at the same time, I feel like I enjoyed this so much less than other people that I wonder if I really needed that extra bit of fanservice.
Overall, the hook for this is kind of a lie but the industrial revolution stuff was interesting enough that I do plan on checking out the next book in the series.
Both of which end suddenly despite the book having a whole quarter of its length left. That quarter is devoted to an incredibly long epilogue mostly spent closing out characters and setting up the next book. I got a strong impression it's the next book Abercombie really wants me to read, and that my time with A Little Hatred was just set up for the real story.
And I kinda hate that? This is my first time reading Abercombie and while his prose is good, characters well rounded, it just didn't grab me with its setting despite how invested I was from the get-go from the premise alone. All the characters were deeply flawed individuals that I knew on paper were good characters, but most of them I really didn't care to root for. The big moments where they should have proven themselves to me felt small. The climaxes of their arcs ramp up the story very quick but die down just as fast.
Despite everything, it's a good book, and overall I think I enjoyed my time with it, but as my first time reading Joe Abercombie, I'm leaving this feeling really let down. Going through some other reviews, I got kinda bamboozled thinking this book was its own trilogy (It is but isn't, a trait I have never liked about fantasy series and a big reason I stayed away from the genre for so long), when its a continuation of another and I wonder how much context I needed for this? I was able to follow the plot very clearly and it never felt like I needed the other trilogy, but at the same time, I feel like I enjoyed this so much less than other people that I wonder if I really needed that extra bit of fanservice.
Overall, the hook for this is kind of a lie but the industrial revolution stuff was interesting enough that I do plan on checking out the next book in the series.
adventurous
dark
tense
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
Przeszło rok minął od ukończenia przeze mnie trylogii Pierwszego Prawa i zaczynając przygodę z kolejną serią Abercrombie'go nie miałam pojęcia, że te dwie serie będzie łączyć kilka wybitnych postaci znanych z poprzedniego cyklu. Długa przerwa jednak zrobiła swoje i po tak długim czasie nie jestem w stanie przypomnieć sobie co ważniejszych osobistości z wyjątkiem pewnego charyzmatycznego arcylektora Glokty -a teraz już eminencji- postaci, która wryła mi się w pamięć i w poprzedniej serii absorbowała najwięcej mojej uwagi. Z przypomnieniem sobie reszty postaci mam spory kłopot stąd trochę żałuję, że nie złapałam za "Epokę Obłędu" od razu po ukończeniu PP. Niby można ten cykl czytać bez znajomości poprzedniego ale uważam, że znajomość PP skutecznie wzbogaci wrażenia z czytania "Epoki obłędu".
Od ostatnich wydarzeń w świecie PP mija 30 lat. To niejako powtórka z tego, co nam autor serwuje w trylogii Pierwszego Prawa. Starzy bohaterowie nadal gdzieś tam są ale pierwsze skrzypce wiedzie tutaj ich potomstwo. Mało się tutaj (jak na razie) dzieje co może sugerować, że pierwszy tom jest tylko takim preludium do nakreślenia całej opowieści, wstępnym rozstawieniem pionków na szachownicy i przyczynkiem do późniejszego rozpędu całej akcji. Może i rzeczywiście można odnieść wrażenie lekkiego przynudzania ale cięty i ironiczny humor Abercrombie'go trochę nadrabia te braki fabularne. I tym razem moja uwaga w większym stopniu została skupiona na postaci Savine dan Glokty (to chyba dziedziczne
Od ostatnich wydarzeń w świecie PP mija 30 lat. To niejako powtórka z tego, co nam autor serwuje w trylogii Pierwszego Prawa. Starzy bohaterowie nadal gdzieś tam są ale pierwsze skrzypce wiedzie tutaj ich potomstwo. Mało się tutaj (jak na razie) dzieje co może sugerować, że pierwszy tom jest tylko takim preludium do nakreślenia całej opowieści, wstępnym rozstawieniem pionków na szachownicy i przyczynkiem do późniejszego rozpędu całej akcji. Może i rzeczywiście można odnieść wrażenie lekkiego przynudzania ale cięty i ironiczny humor Abercrombie'go trochę nadrabia te braki fabularne. I tym razem moja uwaga w większym stopniu została skupiona na postaci Savine dan Glokty (to chyba dziedziczne
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
tense
medium-paced