The narrative momentum of the story faltered in part because you're waiting for Glokta to re-emerge the entire time the longer he's out of the way, the more obvious it is that he's behind everything. They're fun reads, and Joe is on my 'immediately purchase and consume' list until further notice. When everything is so twisty, we're robbed of narrative tension because we've been taught to view each development with a very skeptical eye.īUT, all that being said, I enjoy the hell out of his work. Lastly, I think Joe has fallen in love with the plot twist a little too much. I hid this comment behind spoiler tags in the other thread, at at times it felt like reading an essay and he got to a place where the story was serving the backdrop rather than the other way around. He's brilliant at pushing action and plot, and I find his voice in the North to be hilarious.Īs for the industrial revolution backdrop, well, it was clear he had commentary to make, but I think in an effort to make sure he was understood it got overlong and overworked. Joe's at his strongest when he's in the North. I think there were things that worked brilliantly in the trilogy, and there are also big failures. 'No one writes with the seismic scope or primal intensity of Joe Abercrombie.Just finished the book, and I've got a very bittersweet feeling. The banks have fallen, the sun of the Union has been torn down, and in the darkness behind the scenes, the threads of the Weaver's ruthless plan are slowly being drawn together.

while Black Calder gathers his forces and plots his vengeance. And in the bloody North, Rikke and her fragile Protectorate are running out of allies. Orso will find that when the world is turned upside down, no one is lower than a monarch. With nothing left to lose, Citizen Brock is determined to become a new hero for the new age, while Citizeness Savine must turn her talents from profit to survival before she can claw her way to redemption.

Now that belief will be tested in the crucible of revolution: the Breakers and Burners have seized the levers of power, the smoke of riots has replaced the smog of industry, and all must submit to the wisdom of crowds.

Some say that to change the world you must first burn it down. From the New York Times bestselling author of A Little Hatred comes a stunning fantasy novel that finds the world in an unstoppable revolution where heroes have nothing left to lose as darkness and destruction overtake everything.

The wisdom of crowds by joe abercrombie