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I have a Booktube channel now! Subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/petrikleoSay one thing for Abercrombie, say he knows how to make me love his book even when the setting is Western.I have to mention one thing about the setting of this book first, I dislike the Western setting. It doesn’t matter whether it’s done in video games, movies, or TV series; I just can’t stand them. Here are a few examples of famous Western movies: 3:10 to Yuma? Sucks; The Assassination of Jesse James? I got a fever...
"Live long enough...you see everything ruined." Surprise, surprise! Another Joe Abercrombie novel and another five star review. Would you expect anything else from a loyal subject of Lord Grimdark? Not a chance. Red Country is the final book in his collection of three stand-alones that are connected to his magnificent, stupendous First Law trilogy. It certainly hits the target as one of his very best and does not let the reader down. Not if you're after dark, violent and bloody fantasy with
When Shy South and her cowardly stepfather Lamb return home to find their farmhand dead and Shy's two siblings missing, they venture into the Far Country to find them. They join a fellowship and head to the mining town of Crease. During their travels, Shy is forced to confront her own checkered past and finds that her stepfather has a past of his own...On the heels of finishing A Dance with Dragons, my jones for dark fantasy with morally ambiguous characters was not sated so I turned to Red Coun...
A somewhat Westernized setting for this fantasy set in Abercrombie's world. Very enjoyable to catch up with some character friends as well. And of whom or what they did, I shall say nothing! Read for yourself.One of the many things that Joe Abercrombie excels at is the character cameo. A turn of the page and the reader enters the point of view of what might seem a minor character. But in a space of the few paragraphs, the character takes on dimension, flesh, ambitions, a past, and a life. One ca...
This is my first foray into the world of Joe Abercrombie and for those of you who are about to make the mistake of starting with Red Country like I did, my advice would be to go back and start with the First Law books. Red Country is marketed as a standalone novel and one can certainly enjoy it without having read Abercrombie’s other work, but the reason I’m giving it only 4 stars is because I always felt like I was missing out on something--that there was critical, need-to-know information from...
Shy South a former highway robber with a golden heart gave up on her violent ways and took up farming. When she came back from a marketplace one of the days, she found her hired hand is killed and her young brother and sister is kidnapped. She went off hoping to catch the raiders, accompanied by her timid stepfather. The joined a band of mostly old geezers called Fellowship and the geezers did what geezers are best at: they babbled. Oops, I accidentally gave away around 75% of the book. Sorry. T...
I love me some Abercrombie, his style is so snarky and detailed and dirty. I love how with a few sentences he can fill out a minor character so well that you actually feel sorry when they're killed in passing.This is NOT really a fantasy book though guys, it's 100% Western. If you've read his other books you'll recognize several characters, but you don't REALLY need to read the others to get into this. If you don't like Westerns move along doggy, but this is worth reading for sure.
Red Country is a spin-off from the fantastic First Law Trilogy, no doubt an intended bridge towards Abercrombie’s eventual reprisal of his best characters. Unfortunately, it just doesn’t quite come together as it should. The setting is a little odd and out of place with what we have seen before. This series always felt somewhat Norse-like to me with a warrior culture under threat from a more technologically advanced Southern state with some dark fantasy elements and wizards thrown in. And now we...
What a tedious read, it actually pains me to say that, this book is my sixth by Abercrombie and the last in this series and it sucks. Reading it was just so hard, everything was unnecessarily long and monotonous when it shouldn't be, the plot was actually a good one but the potrayal was terrible, if that isn't even an understatement. ‘Courage lies in bearing the costs. We all have our regrets, but not all of us can afford to be crippled by them. Sometimes it takes small crimes to prevent bigge...
Aaaaaah! So good! SO. Bloody. Good.
Red Country (First Law World, #6), Joe Abercrombie“Each land in the world produces its own men individually bad – and, in time, other bad men who kill them for the general good.” – Emerson HoughThey burned her home. They stole her brother and sister. But vengeance is following.Shy South hoped to bury her bloody past and ride away smiling, but she’ll have to sharpen up some bad old ways to get her family back, and she’s not a woman to flinch from what needs doing. She sets off in pursuit with onl...
“Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.” My 60th read of the year! Red Country made me hit my 2021 Reading Challenge!Right after finishing The Heroes I began the third and final instalment thus far that Joe Abercrombie has set in the First Law World. A very different tone here, set in the same time period, but with a far stronger western, outlandish mood and atmosphere, which is awesome in my opinion. I'm going to make a bold statement, and say that...
Bestest of the best of the best. I can't get over how much I loved this book. How does it work that what Joe likes to write is exactly what I like to read??This even beat out Best Served Cold, my standing favourite. And while I thought the sex scene there was one of the best ever written, and most stomach-turning, it turns out I was wrong. The one here was even more sickening and even more shockingly hilarious. Perfectly awful.Shy was an amazing lead woman, having Lamb around was heart-breakingl...
4.5 stars. The best of the First Law singles Check out my new youtube channel where I show my instant reactions to reading fantasy books seconds after I finish the book. This book was pure enjoyment for me, in part due to how good it is written, and in part due to my lower expectations. I have not liked the First Law singles as much as the original trilogy, but this book hits very close to the quality of that trilogy.Cosca is an amazing character in this book and legitimately had me la...
Westerns. You couldn't pay me enough money to read one......and yet mix it with fantasy and I couldn't be more enthralled. Take King's The Dark Tower series and recently this one, Red Country, and obviously I'm a fan of westerns. I even try to deny it with my movie choices, but again, some of my all-time favorites are westerns (Tombstone and 310 to Yuma). Why is that? Why do I think I hate them and secretly love them? I even lived in Wyoming for a time. I'm seriously asking this! I must be crazy...
Red Country (First Law World,#6)by Joe AbercrombieDarkness, brutality, and tragedy. This book has full of violence, tension, and dark humor as expected by the author. But more than that, it's a good standalone book and much better than the previous standalone book(The Heroes) which I feel the weakest among the author's previous stand-alone books. Enjoyed the tale in this book. Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back. Good story.
4.5 stars. Not as good as Heroes or original trilogy but still one hell of a read.The trouble with running is wherever you run to, there you are.Wisely said by the man who tends to be realistic about those things and indeed it's one of the main sentiments of both this book and original trilogy. No matter how far we run in the end we are what we are and history will repeat itself more often than not.“Conscience and the cock-rot are hardly equivalent,’ snapped Lorsen.‘Indeed,’ said Cosca, signific...
The best of the First Law Singles. Cosca stole the show and his hysterical swashbuckling humor had me cracking up time and again. The presence of "lamb" also helped a lot. I didn't mind that we knew who he was almost immediately. It was when others realized who he was that made it fun. This was also the most consistent story of the three singles. Best Served Cold had a great first half and awful second while Heroes was the opposite. I liked this from start to finish.
This Review ✍️ Blog 📖 Twitter 🐦 Instagram 📷 Support me ☕ “Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.” Best Served Cold ★★★★ 1/2The Heroes ★★★Red Country ★★★ 1/2As you can see from the above ratings, Red Country was somewhere in the middle between The Heroes and Best Served Cold. For now BSC will hold its place as my favorite Abercrombie book!!This is more like BSC in the way it is told because Shy who is the Protagonist is trying to search for...
I’m becoming an Abercrombie fangirl.Red Country was probably the biggest offshoot from the main trilogy so far. It had a sort of Wild West/colonial vibe that I didn’t hate. But as offshot as it may have been, it effectively tied up some burning questions I’ve had since the end of the first trilogy. Ahead of most of the books I’ve read lately by a long shot, it ranks somewhere near the upper middle compared to other books in the series so far.The characters are so rich and vibrant and not a singl...