Magic is mostly alluded to in this first story. magic system and lore - this is where the the The First Law✅ comes into play. top notch world building - there's a map with varying geography ✅, regions have different politics and religions ✅ There's internecine politics between power players and ruling classes ✅ and then there's the poor, suffering peasants ✅ 3. compelling and believable characters - Logen, Glokta, Jezal, Bayaz and others ✅✅✅✅✅ 2. Abercrombie excels at the major aspects of fantasy writing:- 1. It's not as Grim or as Dark as 40k, but as a first novel, this is pretty good. This was long recommended to me as "Grimdark" fantasy, and being a fan of Warhammer 40k I thought okay, let's see how Abercrombie does Grimdark. If your post includes spoilers, please hide spoilers with the spoiler tagĭo this by putting the spoilers between the >!!!spoiler text!< will become spoiler text. The Mods May Remove Posts and Comments at Their Discretion.Also, please put the name of the spoiled book in the title or just put "Spoilers All" Use spoiler tags appropriately and never put direct spoilers in the title of posts. His AMA from the /r/fantasy subreddit is here as well. A subreddit dedicated to the works of fantasy author Joe Abercrombie.
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