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A review by rickwren
Before They Are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie
5.0
You should go read my review of [b:The Blade Itself|944073|The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)|Joe Abercrombie|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1284167912s/944073.jpg|929009] to get my take on the great great great characters in these books.
Now that you've done that, do you want to hear about the war? Yeah, there's a war. And it's damned good.
See, in the first book there was a quest and that quest was kind of a failure. Now there's a war and I don't have a lot of faith that the good guys are going to win. In fact, the guys I like in this conflict aren't really good. In fact, they're kind of awful and isn't that great? It is, trust me.
Inquisitor Glokta uses everything at his disposal to keep his sieged city from being overrun and it's as masterful as any I've read. Meanwhile Logan kills his way to the heart of the war and is sickened by it.
It's so dark and ugly and gripping that I couldn't let go, I had to know everything and consumed the whole book in a single sitting.
Now that you've done that, do you want to hear about the war? Yeah, there's a war. And it's damned good.
See, in the first book there was a quest and that quest was kind of a failure. Now there's a war and I don't have a lot of faith that the good guys are going to win. In fact, the guys I like in this conflict aren't really good. In fact, they're kind of awful and isn't that great? It is, trust me.
Inquisitor Glokta uses everything at his disposal to keep his sieged city from being overrun and it's as masterful as any I've read. Meanwhile Logan kills his way to the heart of the war and is sickened by it.
It's so dark and ugly and gripping that I couldn't let go, I had to know everything and consumed the whole book in a single sitting.