As a longtime Joe Abercrombie reader, I had high expectations for the follow-up to his original trilogy and the series that would come after the last novel, the stand-alone Red Country. To take a world as grim as The First Law trilogy and bring it into the industrial age was a bold move but one …
This September we say goodbye to Joe Abercrombie’s Circle of the World with the final book in The Age of Madness series, The Wisdom of Crowds. Before it releases though, let’s take a look back at where our main characters are after The Trouble with Peace.
It feels as if Joe Abercrombie has been mentioning a new trilogy in the world of The First Law since Red Country was released and his young adult novel, Half A King was announced. Finally, A Little Hatred has arrived and has brought the industrial age to the Circle of the World. Magic moves aside and makes way for an era …
Joe Abercrombie, a British fantasy author from Lancaster, England, has a background in freelance film editing before his first book, The Blade Itself, was published in 2006 by Gollancz. The first book in his Shattered Sea series, Half-A-King, won the Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book in 2015. He currently lives with his wife …