A review by itmegreg
Red Country by Joe Abercrombie

adventurous dark funny tense slow-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

While technically a fantasy-western, still very much a First Law novel. Some American Indian parallels don't quite succeed, but overall a fun, emotional read.

•  “Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.” 
•  “That's what courage is. Taking your disappointments and your failures, your guilt and your shame, all the wounds received and inflicted, and sinking them in the past. Starting again. Damning yesterday and facing tomorrow with your head held high. Times change. It's those that see it coming, and plan for it, and change themselves to suit that prosper.” 
•  “The trouble with running is wherever you run to, there you are.” 
•  “If there was a God, the world seemed exactly the way it would be if there wasn’t one.” 
•  “Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage.”