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The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)

Joe Abercrombie

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Jan 29, 2019 Wealhtheow rated it it was ok

Shelves: disabled-character, fantasy, didn-t_finish

A barbarian warrior, a debauched nobleman training to be a fencer, and a respected officer turned disabled torturer all do stuff. I don't know how their various plots come together because 300 pages in I hit my limit on characters I didn't care about doing horrible things/having horrible things done to them. I actually hit that limit 200 pages before but read on for Logen Ninefingers alone. If there was a book that was just him, I'd have stuck with it. (Not only is his pov a welcome change from ...more

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Dec 12, 2017 J. Trott added it

Joe Abercrombie has a cringeworthy author photo that looks like the villain in a B movie. It looks like trying hard to be cool. That may be the profile for sword and sorcery authors, and I'm not sitting in the seat to be saying this.

I read the whole series and am reviewing the entirety of it here: no spoilers though.

Abercrombie has written an answer to "Game of Thrones" for those who loved the series but grew frustrated as it lollygagged through books four and five, and as they wait for interm ...more

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Nov 20, 2008 Snail in Danger (Sid) Nicolaides marked it as decided-not-to-read · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy-fiction

Every time I go into a bookstore I see this and its sequels in my favorite genre-category-section of the bookstore. The titles and the presentation/design of the books pique my interest. Sadly ... it was not as interesting as it seemed.

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