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A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie

9 reviews

da3m0nic's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Gore, Alcoholism, Cursing, Murder, Sexual content, Grief, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, War, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Misogyny, Racism, Drug abuse, Torture, Vomit, and Drug use

Minor: Fatphobia and Body shaming

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

4.0

An excellent start to a new trilogy, with riveting characters, an eventful plot, and a well-maintained pace. Abercrombie seems to be improving with each installment, and I was impressed to see how everything continued to feel fresh and exciting. However, I wasn't exactly blown away by certain story moments this time, since it's still setting up things and some of them simply didn't grab me much. I felt like he rather overused the POV switch this time as well, which didn't seem to possess the same charm anymore. But at the end of the day, it was a page-turner I really enjoyed, with a strong ending that makes you wanna jump into the next book immediately. For me, the highlights undoubtedly lie in the characters and their interactions with each other, even if I don't love them like the OG cast yet.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Torture

ripxw's review

adventurous dark fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Sexual content

embee007's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful tense fast-paced

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

4.0

(5 stars for audio, as per usual)

War all the time...
Oh, sorry, not a quote from this book or series, although it could be.

& now the children are at it...The children of all the warriors & whiners from the previous books are now playing at war, or politics, & creating their own secrets, & battling with swords & whining/wining, or doing the real work while the fighting happens, & uncovering their parents secrets...

Most of their parents are still alive, most are taking a back seat to the younger generation, & we see how they handle this.

I've heard so much about Savine when people talk about "morally grey female characters done right" & "women written well by men" that my expectations were high for her, & I'm seriously disappointed that no one told me about Rikka - she's the standout character for me so far.

I accidentally skipped Sharp Edges? Ends? But I don't feel like I'm missing any information. I'll get back to it.

“Who comes up with these ridiculous names?” “Writers, I daresay."

"That’s what growing up is, maybe. Realising what a fucking arse you’ve been."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Murder, Violence, War, Gore, and Panic attacks/disorders

hedyharper's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Torture, Child abuse, Xenophobia, Alcohol, Colonisation, Misogyny, Drug abuse, Death, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Grief, Hate crime, Fire/Fire injury, Rape, Incest, Addiction, Animal death, War, Racism, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Drug use, Police brutality, Child death, Classism, Alcoholism, Vomit, Ableism, Blood, Murder, and Panic attacks/disorders

halynahalkina's review

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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Gore, and Murder

reggiethebird's review

adventurous dark funny tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, War, Violence, Incest, and Infidelity

Moderate: Torture, Sexual content, and Child abuse

Minor: Cannibalism

mikki_9's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny 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? It's complicated

5.0

For some reason I was expecting to hate this book (probably the cover), but it turned out to be really good! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Fatphobia, Murder, Sexism, Sexual content, Violence, War, and Homophobia

Moderate: Abandonment, Ableism, Addiction, Blood, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Sexual harassment, Slavery, and Vomit

Minor: Lesbophobia and Torture

angel_kiiss's review

adventurous dark emotional funny 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

5.0

 I’d recommend this to anyone who wants to read a well-developed, complex story without having to sacrifice the women characters in order to do so. The majority of the main characters it follows are women and never once did I feel that a woman was being used as an object or prop for a male character. Arguably, the women in this book are the strongest of all the characters, both in development as well as physical and emotional. We even get to see some older, experienced, wise women who are still strong despite the usually expected restrictions of age.

The women are complex without the requirement of femininity to define their womanhood and have motives beyond what you normally see written by or women in fantasy. Yes, love is nice, but they all have ambitions far beyond finding husbands that drive their characters and shape their arcs.
And the men are allowed to be “prissy” or foolish or cowardice while maintaining a character beyond “the fool,” while also treading the line between cowardice of privilege and the bravery asked of them in fantasy

That being said, I would not recommend this to an inexperienced reader; or, more than likely, as someone’s first Joe Abercrombie book (like myself). Initially, the changing point of view creates almost too much confusion. Characters are introduced with lout introductions, so for the first two or three groups of chapters you kind of play catch up with who each of the protagonists is.

There was a subtle hint that Abercrombie’s previous books were being referenced throughout various dialogue scenes, but that doesn’t mean you have to have read his other work to understand what’s happening here. This story stands alone and does not require you to be knowledgeable about the world Abercrombie has previous created. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Gore, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Cursing, Excrement, Grief, and Torture

Minor: Alcoholism, Death of parent, Incest, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual content, and Vomit