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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.

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. This blood-drenched, thought-provoking dissection of a three-day battle is set in the same world as Abercrombie's First Law Trilogy The Blade Itself, etc. Union commander Lord Marshal Kroy coordinates the fight with the aid of a motley group of incompetent, self-important officers. The strangely sympathetic Col. Bremer dan Gorst is officially a royal observer who nurses a burning desire to kill or be killed.

Leading a much smaller army against the Union is Black Dow, whose grip on the throne of the Northmen is tenuous and based on fear and brutality. Calder, a slippery and cunning egotist, advocates peace while plotting to take Black Dow's place. Abercrombie never glosses over a moment of the madness, passion, and horror of war, nor the tribulations that turn ordinary people into the titular heroes. All rights reserved. His latest novel revisits territory well trodden in his First Law trilogy, which opened with The Blade Itself , and traverses an imaginary landscape reminiscent of a medieval Europe populated by citizens of the Union Empire and its tribal enemies to the north.

Here the story concentrates on a sometimes violent, sometimes bafflingly strange three-day battle taking place on and around an insignificant Northlands hill crowned by monolithic burial stones called The Heroes. This is an action-packed novel full of brutality, black humour and razor-sharp characterisation. Its pace really showcases his talent for differently voiced and realistically motivated characters Was that a tear in my eye? I was an English major once upon a time, and used to read plenty of serious literature.

But as I've grown older, I have less patience for that kind of fiction. Writers of genre fiction, and fantasy in particular, haven't forgotten that great books are ultimately about great storytelling.

It's about putting interesting characters in tight spots and seeing what happens. Everything else is secondary. And The Heroes is a bloody great story. It's tightly focused on a single battle over a three-day period. The action is well done, but it's mainly the very flawed characters making good and bad decisions in desperate situations that make the story so entertaining. Each chapter has a point-of-view character, and the tone and style change, sometimes subtly, sometimes dramatically, as the story shifts between them.

The dialog and language of the northmen is just one example, and Abercrombie deliberately draws some humor out of this. DMCA and Copyright : The book is not hosted on our servers, to remove the file please contact the source url. If you see a Google Drive link instead of source url, means that the file witch you will get after approval is just a summary of original book or the file has been already removed.

Joe Abercrombie is the author of this fantastic novel. Joe is the author of many beautiful novels. This novel is also a wise, deep, moving epic by an exceptional writer. These characters are unique and refreshing. There are fabulous stand-alone set pieces, engaging characters, glorious prose and a soul-stirring look into the various lives of human. This is an immensely readable novel. The author way of developing the characters is impressive and his characters are well drawn and compelling.

It is a unique novel in many ways, and yet, of course, its themes are universal. No doubt this novel is a truly original and unforgettable literary creation. There is no book out there like this, it is pure magic. This book is available in ePub and PDF format with a single click unlimited downloads. To be hanged, drawn and quartered was a punishment in England used for men found guilty of treason.

The Heroes eBook by Joe Abercrombie - Joe Abercrombie has become one of my favourite authors, and The First Law opens up the world he had created with future volumes to enjoy also. If you are a fantasy fan then you simply cannot go wrong with The First Law. Read more. Report abuse. Joe Abercrombie, the author of the epic First Law trilogy, returns with a tale about violence and ambition, gruesome deaths and betrayals, and the brutal truth that no plan survives contact with the enemy.

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