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A review by badayka
A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie
adventurous
dark
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
4.75
+ Juggling a new cast of characters in an established universe, where most of them are some kind of offspring of well-established characters from the previous book is a hard one to get right, but Abercrombie managed it perfectly. You can really see how the children have inherited or have had traits inbued into them by their parents, while still having their own unique personalities. None of the new characters felt like they were just a new iteration of something we've seen before.
+ It's again one of those books, where at first glance it doesn't feel like there is much plot to it, but the foreshadowing is quite strong, making me want to dive into the remaining two books asap, to see how it'll all unfold
+ What's interesting to me is that in this book, the main characters do not seem as awful from the get-go, as in the first trilogy. Pretty much all of them are quite lovable, making me wonder how they're going to be twisted by the end. Abercrombie tends to introduce characters as morally good or bad, but them twists your perception of them, so in the end they're all different shades of gray. I'm interested to see what'll happen to this cast.
+ It's again one of those books, where at first glance it doesn't feel like there is much plot to it, but the foreshadowing is quite strong, making me want to dive into the remaining two books asap, to see how it'll all unfold
+ What's interesting to me is that in this book, the main characters do not seem as awful from the get-go, as in the first trilogy. Pretty much all of them are quite lovable, making me wonder how they're going to be twisted by the end. Abercrombie tends to introduce characters as morally good or bad, but them twists your perception of them, so in the end they're all different shades of gray. I'm interested to see what'll happen to this cast.