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specs's Reviews (135)
I didn't finish this. I think picking it up immediately after finishing the Gentleman Bastards series (which I loved so much) was a bad idea. It just felt precious in a way that was not landing for me so I put it aside after 2 or 3 chapters. Maybe come back to it when I'm more in the mood for a whimsical modern folk story?
I burned through the last 4 Expanse books in more or less a month and was genuinely sad to see them end. A little annoyed at how good they are, honestly. This one had the additional hurdle of trying to describe something indescribable, but handled it as well as I've seen anyone handle it.
...I just love them all so much.
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Actually cried on a bus reading the last few chapters as this little family got dismantled and everyone was where they needed to be. Jim just quietly deciding he has to be the one to save (literally) everyone. Surprise guest star: Miller. Naomi, heartbroken but returning to Sol to help rebuild. Alex and the Roci (the real OTP of this series) flying off together so he can go be a better grandfather than he was a father. And Amos returning to Earth to protect it for 1000 years. Of course it's Amos who keeps going. Of course....I just love them all so much.
This was such a nice surprise after finishing Red Country. Got to see some old friends & make a few (short-lived) new ones.
The best of the First Law & the 3 following books! The Western is such a perfect genre for the stories Abercrombie likes to tell & the characters he likes to spend time with. This one is the closest he's ever come to writing a "romp" & it's so much fun (amid all the violence, regret, death, & immeasurable weight of our own pasts weighing on our shoulders).
The Heroes worked the least for me out of all of Abercrombie's work (that I've read -- haven't read Age of Madness yet). War narratives aren't my thing & while I do appreciate what he's doing with the genre & the point he's making (broadly, war = bad), it just didn't grab me the way that Red Country or even the other First Law books did. Loved a lot of the characters, as usual, & his way of making villains & heroes indistinguishable from each other. The geography was a stumbling block, even with the map (a map! finally!) & I pretty quickly gave up keeping tabs on everyone & just let the story happen.
