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Last Argument of Kings (The First Law, #3)
by Joe Abercrombie
by Joe Abercrombie
Just finished The Last Argument of Kings...
Mixed feelings.
Definitely it is not worth re-reading, otherwise it would be like Logen, pissing into the wind. Real life is depressing enough, why make it worse?
I didn't expect a happy ending, but everything, absolutely everything to be bad? While you have to be realistic is a good motto, the ending is not realistic because life is shit and people do not change is overplayed.
The Blade Itself starts with a chapter 1 - End, and The Last Argument of Kings ends with the last chapter - Beginning.
It explains a lot. In the beginning the main characters were in shi*t, and in the end they wandered into the same sh%t.
Nothing really has changed. Protagonists didn't really develop, change, improve. The whole trilogy's goal was to hammer home a point:
'Our minds never change!'
'You never change'
'Nothing has changed. I still need vengeance.'
'A man can change,' whispered Logen...yet he stood alone...
I believe the story is not finished. I am sure, there will be at least one more trilogy. I know, I will give it a try. But if it ends up like this one, it will be the last for me.
I am unsure between rating it 6 or 8 out of 10.
Mixed feelings.
Definitely it is not worth re-reading, otherwise it would be like Logen, pissing into the wind. Real life is depressing enough, why make it worse?
I didn't expect a happy ending, but everything, absolutely everything to be bad? While you have to be realistic is a good motto, the ending is not realistic because life is shit and people do not change is overplayed.
The Blade Itself starts with a chapter 1 - End, and The Last Argument of Kings ends with the last chapter - Beginning.
It explains a lot. In the beginning the main characters were in shi*t, and in the end they wandered into the same sh%t.
Nothing really has changed. Protagonists didn't really develop, change, improve. The whole trilogy's goal was to hammer home a point:
'Our minds never change!'
'You never change'
'Nothing has changed. I still need vengeance.'
'A man can change,' whispered Logen...yet he stood alone...
I believe the story is not finished. I am sure, there will be at least one more trilogy. I know, I will give it a try. But if it ends up like this one, it will be the last for me.
I am unsure between rating it 6 or 8 out of 10.
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Logan wrote: "I think Jezal's character changed quite a bit, especially from the pompous proud noble son to what he became. Logen wanted to change, but wanted to stay alive more, so didn't really change. Glokt..."I disagree about Jezal.
He was a coward and he remains one. Maybe his outer shell changed a little bit (or he wanted to believe it changed) but deep inside...all the same.
"The Blade Itself starts with a chapter 1 - End, and The Last Argument of Kings ends with the last chapter - Beginning." Ha. I didn't notice that.
All in all, I really enjoyed this series. I, too, think that there'll be more books with these characters.