She helps Rikke through her fits and is a reliable companion in a harsh world. Isern is a hard person who’s been tempered by wars in years past, but she’s a good person to have around. She has a mother-ish figure named Isern who’s thought to be a witch who is trying to help her out.

He’s pissed at her father, (the Dogman), and intends on torturing her, killing her, and sending her body back in pieces to her father. That, and Stour Nightfall is trying to find her and kill her. It’s unflattering and embarrassing and leads to chafed legs, but her bigger problem is that she’s had visions of war. She shits her pants when she has her visions. The ability is known as the “Long Eye” and as with most things Abercrombie writes, her seemingly amazing ability is plagued with drawbacks of the dirty and gritty variety. I adore his performances in the original series and since old characters come back it was nice to have consistency in the voices.Īlthough there are a lot of characters, a girl named Rikke who’s been blessed/cursed with the ability to see the future is arguably one of the main characters. Steven Pacey came back to narrate the audiobooks which was a fucking delight for me. Both Dogman and Glokta have daughters that feature heavily and it adds extra depth to know Glokta’s background when he interacts with his daughter. You don’t necessarily have to have read the First Law trilogy before reading this one, you’ll be able to understand it, but I personally got a lot more out of it knowing what lay behind the names of people and events. This book focuses on new characters in the same world as First Law, but there are lots of cross overs and references since some of the new characters are related to characters from the original trilogy. There are also similar themes and circumstances used in this series that overlap with First Law trilogy such as two opposing sides of a war being represented with different POVs. However, if you’re like me, you’ll be stoked to find out this book gives you the same darker humor, unique writing style, and grey characters that he’s delivered in the past. If you’ve been on the fence about him in the past and were wondering if this book was something new and different… no. Abercrombie, so far, has been the latter type of author.

Others have a very distinctive style which is identifiable after just a few sentences or paragraphs. Some authors will experiment with different writing styles, tones, themes, or genres and it’s almost as if you’re reading a totally different author with each series. I feel like I’m one of the last people to review this, so if you’ve already read this I’d be interested in hearing your thoughts. I’m running way behind on reading and even further behind on reviewing. I will be lucky if I read 70 books by the end of the year… it’s sort of sad because in years past I’ve read up and over 200.

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