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Work InformationThe Heroes by Joe Abercrombie
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I think I get the point the author was trying to make (it's not subtle), but I just didn't find it very compelling. It's the obvious subtext found in more interesting works written in all caps for five hundred pages. ( ) Unfortunately I didn't like this book as much as the ones that came before in the series. I suspected that would be the case since I don't tend to like stories about war, but I was hoping the characters would get me through this. There were some really good and complex characters in this book, but there were also characters I didn't care about and that didn't have a strong enough personality for me to remember them (I kept checking the list of names in the begining of the book). The characters I was more interested in were Calder and Black Dow. Finree had some good moments in the second half of the book. Gorst's obsession with Finree was creepy and he annoyed me most of the time with his repetitive thoughts. Tunny's more comedic chapters made me laugh sometimes and it was a nice break from all of the seriousness of the other chapters. There were some really good moments, but I felt bored for the most part while reading this book. The last 100 pages were fantastic though. This was a dificult book to rate because I really liked some parts of it and a few characters, but it was boring and repetitive for the most part. I will probably skip this book when I reread the series, but I don't regret reading it. Didn't think it was possible for me to like Dow even just a little bit. A very very small bit, mind you. Gorst however stole the show for me! The book was a solid read, very entertaining with characters we knew and liked- or hated- from the First Law. You like First Law, you like this. After all, you have to be realistic about things... no reviews | add a review
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HTML:They say Black Dow's killed more men than winter, and clawed his way to the throne of the North up a hill of skulls. The King of the Union, ever a jealous neighbor, is not about to stand smiling by while he claws his way any higher. The orders have been given and the armies are toiling through the northern mud. Thousands of men are converging on a forgotten ring of stones, on a worthless hill, in an unimportant valley, and they've brought a lot of sharpened metal with them. THE HEROES For glory, for victory, for staying alive. No library descriptions found.
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