Half a King (Shattered Sea, #1)

by Joe Abercrombie

“I have spent long enough on my knees.”

Then Mother Scaer rested her thin hand gently on Gorm’s fist. “The gods guard those who guard themselves,” she whispered.

“This new king is very rude,”

“I swore an oath, Mother Gundring, to be avenged on the killers of my father. I may be half a man, but I swore a whole oath.”