Before They Are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie

4.3 AVERAGE

stockholm_syndrome's review against another edition

4.5
adventurous dark funny 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

egcgcg's review against another edition

3.75
adventurous dark funny medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Loveable characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

laszlob's review against another edition

4.5
adventurous dark funny 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
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mcguffbf's review against another edition

4.75
adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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

samhenrichs's review against another edition

3.75
adventurous dark slow-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
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jbowman19's review against another edition

4.0
Used to be my favourite of the trilogy even if a good 40% of it is rendered somewhat useless plot wise ! Still, as comforting a read as the others and I enjoyed it very much once again.

yato's review against another edition

4.0
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
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angelique68's review against another edition

3.0
adventurous dark tense slow-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

clairef's review against another edition

4.0
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: Complicated
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vikrmm's review against another edition

4.5
dark funny sad 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
Absolutely solid second book. Doesn’t for a single page suffer from second book syndrome. The characters, already loveable and hateable as they are, are just so much more of everything in the best way possible. The plot is nothing big but Abercrombie’s writing make it feel as epic as LOTR. I would snort Abercrombie’s prose if I could.