Joe Abercrombie was born in Lancaster, England, studied psychology at Manchester University, and worked as an editor of documentaries and live music before his first book, The Blade Itself, was published in 2006. Two further instalments of the First Law trilogy, Before They Are Hanged, and Last Argument of Kings, followed, along with three standalone books set in the same world: Best Served Cold, The Heroes and Red Country. He has also written the Shattered Sea trilogy for young adults, the Age of Madness trilogy for old adults, and Sharp Ends, a collection of short stories. He lives in Bath, England, with his wife and three children.
Highly recommended - a funny, finely-wrought, terrifically
energetic work of high fantasy. Seek it out
*Joe Hill*
Highly recommended - a funny, finely-wrought, terrifically
energetic work of high fantasy. Seek it out
Joe Abercrombie's Best Served Cold is a bloody and relentless epic
of vengeance and obsession in the grand tradition, a kind of
splatterpunk sword 'n sorcery Count of Monte Cristo, Dumas by way
of Moorcock . . . The battles are vivid and visceral, the action
brutal, the pace headlong, and Abercrombie piles the betrayals,
reversals, and plot twists one atop another to keep us guessing how
it will all come out. This is his best book yet
*George R.R. Martin*
Overall this is an immediately rewarding experience. There are
reveals in the final third that are unexpected yet satisfyingly
logical . . . Best Served Cold? Modern fantasy doesn't get much
better than this
*SFX*
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