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A Little Hatred

Joe Abercrombie

4.41 AVERAGE

laustintranslation's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

aidin1805's review against another edition

5.0

Auto buy/read author : just wondering what will happen in this trilogy considering the build up in this book.

wouterk's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark funny reflective 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

A great book and another great entry in the First Law world. It felt like coming home. Still I found the first part of the book a bit slow and I was searching for each person's stakes. As a setup book it is great though.

As Abercrombie's character work is unrivaled, by the end of this book I was totally hooked on a mostly new cast of characters. Also loved the cameo's or roles for characters from earlier books. Oh and when Bayaz comes back into the picture. Well, if you read the first trilogy you already get the picture :). I loved it.

We also get to see quite a few spicy scenes compared to other books. I feel that Abercrombie really improved in depicting them without losing the earthliness, awkwardness and mundaneness that comes with it. But I feel the enjoyment shines through more as well.

They are not the main plot though. We are looking at an uprising in the Union as well as a war in the North. A new cast of characters is involved and set up to be the next generation of scoundrels, leaders and victims. This book set up new powers to be for the rest of the trilogy and I'm very curious which factions will move in what way and how the hand behind the scenes will respond.

marit0223's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark funny 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: Complicated

natashamuse's review against another edition

I gave the first book of the First Law Trilogy 3 stars when I first read it, back when I still bothered with stars, and I'd probably do the same here. This is despite the fact that Abercrombie is easily one of my favorite authors. Or maybe it's because of it? I dunno.
Anyway, I liked this book and I'm resisting the urge to jump into the second book. This is a great beginning to a story. I will probably end up rereading (or relistening to) this some time down the line like I did with the FLT. I didn't dislike anything about it. And I loved a lot of it. Even got moved to almost crying at a scene at the end of the book. A scene that was both shocking and yet didn't feel like "SuBvErTInG tHa eXpEcTatIOns"
I just didn't feel like it was a full story. And tbh I'm not sure if I would have enjoyed (or even understood) this at all if I hadn't read six(!) other novels (and a collection of short stories) that laid the groundwork. But I like that! There's no reason to even attempt to explain it all again. And I'm glad he didn't. Just don't be fooled by the "#1." This is not a good place to begin. But it's a great place to get to!