Red Country (First Law World, #6)

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They burned her home.They stole her brother and sister.But vengeance is following.Shy South hoped to bury her bloody past and ride away smiling, but she ll have to sharpen up some bad old ways to get her family back, and she s not a woman to flinch from what needs doing She sets off in pursuit with only a pair of oxen and her cowardly old step father Lamb for company But it turns out Lamb s buried a bloody past of his own And out in the lawless Far Country the past never stays buried.Their journey will take them across the barren plains to a frontier town gripped by gold fever, through feud, duel and massacre, high into the unmapped mountains to a reckoning with the Ghosts Even worse, it will force them into an alliance with Nicomo Cosca, infamous soldier of fortune, and his feckless lawyer Temple, two men no one should ever have to trust RED COUNTRY takes place in the same world as the First Law trilogy, Best Served Cold, and The Heroes This novel also represents the return of Logen Ninefingers, one of Abercrombie s most beloved characters. Download Red Country (First Law World, #6) – kino-fada.fr Say one thing for Abercrombie, say he knows how to make me love his book even when the setting of the book is Western.I have to mention one thing about the setting of this book before I start my review, I truly despise Western stories Doesn t matter if it s done in video games, movies, or TV series I just can t stand them Here s a few example for famous movies, 3 10 to...Westerns You couldn t pay me enough money to read oneand yet mix it with fantasy and I couldn t beenthralled Take King s The Dark Tower series and recently this one, Red Country, and obviously I m a fan of westerns I even try to deny it with my movie choices, but again, some of my all time favorites a...A somewhat Westernized setting for this fantasy set in Abercrombie s world Very enjoyable to catch up with some character friends as well And of whom or what they did, I shall say nothing Read for yourself.One of the many things that Joe Abercrombie excels at is the character cameo A turn of the page and the reader enters the point of view of what might seem a minor character But in a space of the few paragraphs, the character takes on dimension, flesh, ambitions, a past, and a life One ca A somewhat Westernized setting for this fantasy set in Abercrombie s world Very enjoyable to catch up with some character friends as well And of whom or what they did, I shall say nothing Read for yourself.One of the many things that Joe Abercrombie excels at is the character cameo A turn of the page and the reader enters the point of view of...When Shy South and her cowardly stepfather Lamb return home to find their farmhand dead and Shy s two siblings missing, they venture into the Far Country to find them They join a fellowship and head to the mining town of Crease During their travels, Shy is forced to confront her own checkered past and finds that her stepfather has a past of his ownOn the heels of finishing A Dance with Dragons, my jones for dark fantasy with morally ambiguous characters was not sated so I turned to Red Coun When Shy South and her cowardly stepfather Lamb return home to find their farmhand dead and Shy s two siblings missing, they venture into the Far Country to find them They join a fellowship and head to the mining town of Crease During their travels, Shy is forced to confront her own checkered past and finds that her stepfather has a past of his ownOn the heels of finishing A Dance with Dragons, my jones for dark fantasy with morally ambiguous characters was not sated so I turned to Red Country Red Country is my first Joe Abercrombie book and won t be the last.Red Country promoted as being a fantasy wes...Shy South a former highway robber with a golden heart gave up on her violent ways and took up farming When she came back from a marketplace one of the days, she found her hired hand is killed and her young brother and sister is kidnapped She went off hoping to catch the raiders, accompanied by her timid stepfather The joined a band of mostly old geezers called Fellowship and the geezers did what geezers are best at they babbled O...I love me some Abercrombie, his style is so snarky and detailed and dirty I love how with a few sentences he can fill out a minor character so well that you actually feel sorry when they re killed in passing.This is NOT really a fantasy book though guys, it s 100% Western If you ve read his oth...The best of the First Law Singles Cosca stole the show and his hysterical swashbuckling humor had me cracking up time and again The presence of lamb also helped a lot I didn t mind that we knew who he was almost immediately It was when others realized who he was that ...4.5 stars Not as good as Heroes or original trilogy but still one hell of a read The trouble with running is wherever you run to, there you are.Wisely said by the man who tends to be realistic about those things and indeed it s one of the main sentiments of both this book and original trilogy No matter how far we run in the end we are what we are and history will repeat itselfoften than notConscie...This is my first foray into the world of Joe Abercrombie and for those of you who are about to make the mistake of starting with Red Country like I did, my advice would be to go back and start with the First Law books Red Country is marketed as a standalone novel and one can certainly enjoy it without having read Aber...Ok, I m going to get this out of the way right at the beginning YES The Bloody Nine is Back Nuf said But you have to realistic about these things so for the sake of those who have no clue who The Bloody Nine is, I ll continue.As many a reviewer has pointed out before, including Abercrombie himself, this is a fantasy version of a Western Red Country returns us to the First Law Universe or at least to the Far Wild West of it and treats us to a smorgasbord of Western genre tropes and clich Ok, I m going to get this out of the way right at the beginning YES The Bloody Nine is Back Nuf said But you have to realistic about these things so for the sake of those who have no clue who The Bloody Nine is, I ll continue.As many a reviewer has pointed out before, including Abercrombie himself, this is a fantasy version of a Western Red Country returns us to the First Law Universe or at least to the Far Wild West of it and treats us to a smorgasbord of Western genre tropes and clich s that will have you boot skootin just to keep up Does it have cowboys check And everyone wears hats too Injuns Check But we call them Ghosts and they take ears instead of scalps owww Ran...

Red Country (First Law World, #6)
  • English
  • 12 June 2018
  • ebook
  • 469 pages
  • 0316214442
  • Joe Abercrombie
  • Red Country (First Law World, #6)