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Good lines like raised drinks
This selection found in the chapter entitled Strange Times:

“Enemies are the price of success.”

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Said at the onset of this book that I like the character Brand. After this last chapter, when he shows how heroic he can be to save a child, I don’t like him. I adore him. He is the strength at the core of this book - both physically and at heart.

Lines so pure they could make you cry:

“Seeds blown from half the world away and chosen by some weird luck to put their roots down here.” (Taken from the chapter entitled Damn Them, and in reference to a village sprung from people all over the Shattered Sea.)

I think almost every reader will agree with me that it’s the character build that’s most important. You can create a great plot but fill it with wishy-washy flat people and the book slams shut before you’re a third into it.

Abercrombie is masterful with his characters, and once created, they learn, grow, and age but don’t suddenly lose clarity or fade into nothingness. Pure genius.

Great team-building exercise of pulling down the ship’s mast and rolling the hull so everyone can huddle under it during a massive hail storm. No, really, it was an amazingly successful explanation. Very visual and full of sound. Extraordinary stuff!