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4.3 AVERAGE
4.3 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
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
adventurous
challenging
dark
funny
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:
Complicated
adventurous
challenging
dark
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
Pocas veces reseño dos libros de una misma saga de forma seguida. Pero en esta ocasión tenía que hacerlo. No quería que pasara más tiempo sin decir: ¡¡Este libro es espectacular!!!
(Ya… uff… necesitaba desahogarme).
Cuando terminé el primer libro quedé conforme con lo que había leído, pero sentí que había algo que faltaba. Pero ahora todo fue distinto. Desde el comienzo la historia tiene mucha fuerza. La trama de cada personaje está mejor definida, lo que me ayudó a entender de mejor forma para donde iba la historia. Muchos misterios comienzan a ser explicados y obviamente surgen nuevos conflictos por resolver. Pero lo que me gustó por sobre todo es que es un libro demasiado entretenido.
No hablaré sobre la historia para evitar spoilers del primer libro. Lo que diré es que leer “antes de que los cuelguen” me hizo recordar grandes autores del género. Por momentos sentí que tenía toques de Tolkien cuando los personajes visitaban grandes ciudades, ruinas olvidadas o se describe algún paisaje increíble; así como también de George R. R. Martín, cuando su trama política y bélica cobraba vital importancia. Todo está muy bien armado. Pero además tiene un ritmo excelente. Me gustó como Abercrombie maneja los tiempos. Es casi imposible aburrirse ya que pasan muchas cosas y cualquier momento de paz puede transformarse en dos segundos en una sangrienta batalla con cabezas rodando (literalmente).
Sin duda este segundo libro me gustó más que el primero. Lo disfruté totalmente. Aquí hay fantasía que engancha, evoluciona y que me hizo vibrar.
PD. Eso si, Mr. Joe Abercrombie, hay un tema con un caballito que no me gustó, pero entiendo el contexto y lo dejaré pasar.
(Ya… uff… necesitaba desahogarme).
Cuando terminé el primer libro quedé conforme con lo que había leído, pero sentí que había algo que faltaba. Pero ahora todo fue distinto. Desde el comienzo la historia tiene mucha fuerza. La trama de cada personaje está mejor definida, lo que me ayudó a entender de mejor forma para donde iba la historia. Muchos misterios comienzan a ser explicados y obviamente surgen nuevos conflictos por resolver. Pero lo que me gustó por sobre todo es que es un libro demasiado entretenido.
No hablaré sobre la historia para evitar spoilers del primer libro. Lo que diré es que leer “antes de que los cuelguen” me hizo recordar grandes autores del género. Por momentos sentí que tenía toques de Tolkien cuando los personajes visitaban grandes ciudades, ruinas olvidadas o se describe algún paisaje increíble; así como también de George R. R. Martín, cuando su trama política y bélica cobraba vital importancia. Todo está muy bien armado. Pero además tiene un ritmo excelente. Me gustó como Abercrombie maneja los tiempos. Es casi imposible aburrirse ya que pasan muchas cosas y cualquier momento de paz puede transformarse en dos segundos en una sangrienta batalla con cabezas rodando (literalmente).
Sin duda este segundo libro me gustó más que el primero. Lo disfruté totalmente. Aquí hay fantasía que engancha, evoluciona y que me hizo vibrar.
PD. Eso si, Mr. Joe Abercrombie, hay un tema con un caballito que no me gustó, pero entiendo el contexto y lo dejaré pasar.
adventurous
dark
tense
medium-paced
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
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
emotional
slow-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
Summary:
After a strong introduction to some of the best characters in fantasy genre, Joe Abercrombie returns with his 2nd book in the First Law Series in which Bayaz the First of Magi takes a ragtag group to the edge of the world where they discover something that'll leave huge impact on their lives and everyone's favourite Sherlock, Mr. San Dan Glokta tries his best to save the falling city while trying to cope with his failing life.
What I liked:
1) The Character Work: Stating the obvious. It's what this series and the author is known for. But it is so well done that I have to mention it. The scope of storytelling increases in this book with the readers getting 6 characters' pov. It is fascinating to see how the author builds on a strong groundwork laid down in the previous book.
2) Chemistry between the ragtag group: I really enjoyed the love and hate relationship between the group of characters that Bayaz takes with him for exploration. The interaction between Bayaz-Luthar-Logen-Ferrow and Longfoot makes their journey quite a fun.
3) San Dan Glokta: One of the finest characters ever written! San Dan Glokta and his sarcasm, his continuous pondering of his existence, his questioning of the work that he's doing and his constant fear of the most dangerous villain in his life - The stairs have all turned him into an iconic character!
4) The Northmen: Dogman, Threetrees and co. have been given more time in this book. I enjoyed their group, the role they played for the Union, how all of it panned out and the dynamic between them and West.
5) Action galore: After a slow start to the series, this book sees lots of battle scenes, fights and overall bloodloss making it an action packed read.
What I didn't like:
1) Exploration: The journey that Bayaz and co. go on essentially take them out of the main storyline for almost the whole book. It feels like the author decide to take that route to build the world and the characters for a payoff that might come in the final book. The problem is that when most of the main characters are not at the scene where the actual story is progressing then it reduces the interest and impact of that that story.
Conclusion:
Before they are hanged is a solid second book in the first law series. It builds on the strong base set up by the first book and leaves you hanging for more (in a good way).
After a strong introduction to some of the best characters in fantasy genre, Joe Abercrombie returns with his 2nd book in the First Law Series in which Bayaz the First of Magi takes a ragtag group to the edge of the world where they discover something that'll leave huge impact on their lives and everyone's favourite Sherlock, Mr. San Dan Glokta tries his best to save the falling city while trying to cope with his failing life.
What I liked:
1) The Character Work: Stating the obvious. It's what this series and the author is known for. But it is so well done that I have to mention it. The scope of storytelling increases in this book with the readers getting 6 characters' pov. It is fascinating to see how the author builds on a strong groundwork laid down in the previous book.
2) Chemistry between the ragtag group: I really enjoyed the love and hate relationship between the group of characters that Bayaz takes with him for exploration. The interaction between Bayaz-Luthar-Logen-Ferrow and Longfoot makes their journey quite a fun.
3) San Dan Glokta: One of the finest characters ever written! San Dan Glokta and his sarcasm, his continuous pondering of his existence, his questioning of the work that he's doing and his constant fear of the most dangerous villain in his life - The stairs have all turned him into an iconic character!
4) The Northmen: Dogman, Threetrees and co. have been given more time in this book. I enjoyed their group, the role they played for the Union, how all of it panned out and the dynamic between them and West.
5) Action galore: After a slow start to the series, this book sees lots of battle scenes, fights and overall bloodloss making it an action packed read.
What I didn't like:
1) Exploration: The journey that Bayaz and co. go on essentially take them out of the main storyline for almost the whole book. It feels like the author decide to take that route to build the world and the characters for a payoff that might come in the final book. The problem is that when most of the main characters are not at the scene where the actual story is progressing then it reduces the interest and impact of that that story.
Conclusion:
Before they are hanged is a solid second book in the first law series. It builds on the strong base set up by the first book and leaves you hanging for more (in a good way).
adventurous
funny
mysterious
sad
slow-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
I love all the characters and that is truly the gift of this book series. Even if half of them are arseholes they are so well written I really care about where they end up. (Jezel, Ferro and Glokta I'm looking at you). I found West's army storyline hard to care about because at no point did I believe he had a chance of succeeding so I fully thought the only thing that would work would be the Seed plot however that didn't do anything either! So I feel like the plot didn't advance enough even though a lot of time passed. Also far too many mentions of painful nipples (can't help but feel like Abercrombie has some personal issues here) and where was Quai in this book? He became completely irrelevant. I am itching to know what happened but I haven't got the next book yet grr.