Joel Abercrombies' Last Argument of Kings series
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Joel Abercrombies' Last Argument of Kings series
I've seen this trilogy on Amazon and wondered if anyone here had read it, and if so, what is their opinion of it?
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Re: Joel Abercrombies' Last Argument of Kings series
I picked it up while I was in the USA (Amazon kept recomending it to me).
I really enjoyed it, it's well written, interesting, amusing and has some great characters. I'd definetly recomend it, I picked up the first, then 2&3 simultaneously and didn't regret it a bit.
Also, the ending's a lovely bit of a rollercoasting bitch .
I really enjoyed it, it's well written, interesting, amusing and has some great characters. I'd definetly recomend it, I picked up the first, then 2&3 simultaneously and didn't regret it a bit.
Also, the ending's a lovely bit of a rollercoasting bitch .
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Re: Joel Abercrombies' Last Argument of Kings series
Do they feature cannons? Because otherwise the title makes no sense.
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Re: Joel Abercrombies' Last Argument of Kings series
They do, but not as a main feature (book 3 has some gunpowder equilevents)Thanas wrote:Do they feature cannons? Because otherwise the title makes no sense.
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They're pretty good, character-centric books. In particular, Abercrombie is good at creating characters whose heads you can get into and like, but when you step back, you realize that they actually aren't very nice people, such
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Re: Joel Abercrombies' Last Argument of Kings series
Also his new book Best Served Cold is out now. It basically moves the plot onto some of the minor characters from the original trilogy and into Styria which is loosely mentioned in the books.
I'm only halfway through but it's a great read so far!
I fully recommend you buy the original trilogy immediately, their some of the best fiction I've read in ages.
I'm only halfway through but it's a great read so far!
I fully recommend you buy the original trilogy immediately, their some of the best fiction I've read in ages.
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