Reviews tagging 'War'

The Trouble with Peace by Joe Abercrombie

9 reviews

da3m0nic's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Classism, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, War, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Abandonment, Animal death, Confinement, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Racism, and Vomit

Minor: Alcoholism, Drug use, Excrement, Incest, and Infidelity

adammtucker's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

5.0

Another outstanding entry from Joe Abercrombie filled with grimdark character work at its finest and some of the best battle sequences since The Heroes, his standalone. I really enjoyed the Industrial Revolution meets French Revolution vibe of this second entry in the Age of Madness, and am already itching to pick up the final entry in the trilogy. A must-read for Abercrombie fans.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Violence

surdiablo's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Hands down the best middle book of a trilogy I've ever read, perhaps Abercrombie's best work so far as well. It was an improvement over its predecessor in every single way, with an enthralling plot, impeccable pacing, and amazing character development, which left me wondering where the hell the story would even go from here, considering everything that happened. I would have finished it in 3 days which would be the fastest I ever read a 500+ page book, if I hadn't postponed reading the last act due to real-life matters. Without spoilers, I would say it just encompasses the best of everything he has to offer into a single book, but the stakes are higher than last time, and it's executed better than ever. I believe this book has cemented

Orso and Rikke

as my favorite characters in the new trilogy, and as much as I would like to gush about my newfound favorites, this is one of those instances where I would just prefer to go and read the next book immediately than talk ( Although I won't yet because I am still processing.. ). So yes, no complaints, no extra thoughts, I am simply blown away!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and War

Moderate: Homophobia and Sexual content

Minor: Alcoholism and Animal cruelty

queer_futomaki's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and War

ripxw's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Injury/Injury detail, War, and Violence

josiah17's review against another edition

dark emotional funny 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

5.0

"Hoping for a thing often seems the best way o' bringing on the opposite."

Just a masterful sequel. Full of thrilling scheming, uprising, and betrayal. Abercrombie hardly seems to miss.

Even though I thought this book was slower than A Little Hatred, there wasn't a single dull moment here. For whatever reason, I seem to have slower starts for getting immersed into an Abercrombie book. But not this time. I was thoroughly engaged from page one.

And those final 100 pages?! Insane and the implications are going to be wild.

(Additionally, speaking of A Little Hatred, this book is probably enough to bump that rating to 5 stars. I was already thinking of that book often after I finished it, and I love it even more after reading this one. And the more I contemplate, the more I realize that I probably won't experience writing and characters on par with Abercrombie's in many of the books I read in the future.)

I also haven't really pinned down a favorite character yet, but I think it has to be Rikke. She's hilarious. I seriously just cannot get enough of all the Northmen banter. If Abercrombie wrote a book just about Northmen talking I would eagerly wait in the bookstore for it on release day. 

I truly can't wait to see where this story goes in the final book of the trilogy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, Death, and Gore

Minor: Sexual content

reggiethebird's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

"Good fiction. Gooooooood fiction." - BDG

Really good gallows humor, and all of the plot threads braid together in a way that makes sense. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Blood, Sexual content, Pregnancy, and War

barfwolf's review

adventurous slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

mikki_9's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

The ending for this book was much more interesting than in the first book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcohol, Blood, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Fatphobia, Gore, Grief, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Pregnancy, Racism, Sexism, Violence, War, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Incest, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Torture, and Vomit