A review by klamstrakvr
Ostrze by Joe Abercrombie

adventurous dark tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

50 pages of fluff could’ve been shaved off, hence the 0.5 star drop, but there truly aren’t characters like Abercrombie’s characters. 

I appreciate sticking to buildup work in this one, instead of attempting to make it a perfectly balanced book. It’s heavy in many senses but the prose is free from clumsiness and pompousness which both tend to plague the genre.
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