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Ooh, I loved this. The writing is excellent, aside from the author's mild preoccupation with teeth. Great characterizations - and that's almost all there is in this first part of the trilogy, which might not suit everyone but I was enchanted. The fight scenes are vivid and seem very realistic, perhaps because they involve nearly as many accidental and incidental injuries as deliberate ones. There's some dry humor, but the overall tone is pretty dark.
The plot itself offers just enough deviation f ...more
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This one thought about being five stars for a while, but didn't quite make the cut. I think where it lost me was when it started putting multiple viewpoints into the same chapter. It felt too abrupt, after spending 75% of the book with each character for a more prolonged period. The change interrupted the flow of the story pretty severely for me. I love the way that Abercrombie writes his characters, though. They're kind of asses, but they're realistic, and they all feel like they have opportuni
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