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This was one of my most anticipated books for 2025 and it did not disappoint. Well, mostly. Firstly, it is definitely bears Abercrombie's fast and furious style with lots of blood and snappy dialogue. But. There is a but. I said this in the group that I'm buddyreading it with, I found the book to be quite repetitive in the storytelling. It is divided into several parts and parts 1-3 are almost identical. It's a quest story, an adventurous tale of a band of misfits (favorite trope, yay!) bodyguar
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Interesting setting but Abercrombie doesn't fully engage with it. The ensemble, a kind of Universal monster Suicide Squad, is great, and thankfully the humour mostly lands. Definitely less grimdark than his previous books. Can't wait for the next book.
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Fun and engaging, but boy were there a lot of pages for what it did.
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