A blade itself
Series: The first law #1
Genre: Fantasy
Original publication date: May 2006
Book description: Logen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian, has finally run out of luck. Caught in one feud too many, he’s on the verge of becoming a dead barbarian – leaving nothing behind him but bad songs, dead friends, and a lot of happy enemies.
Nobleman Captain Jezal dan Luthar, dashing officer, and paragon of selfishness, has nothing more dangerous in mind than fleecing his friends at cards and dreaming of glory in the fencing circle. But war is brewing, and on the battlefields of the frozen North they fight by altogether bloodier rules.
Inquisitor Glokta, cripple turned torturer, would like nothing better than to see Jezal come home in a box. But then Glokta hates everyone: cutting treason out of the Union one confession at a time leaves little room for friendship. His latest trail of corpses may lead him right to the rotten heart of government if he can stay alive long enough to follow it.
Enter the wizard, Bayaz. A bald old man with a terrible temper and a pathetic assistant, he could be the First of the Magi, he could be a spectacular fraud, but whatever he is, he's about to make the lives of Logen, Jezal, and Glokta a whole lot more difficult.
Murderous conspiracies rise to the surface, old scores are ready to be settled, and the line between hero and villain is sharp enough to draw blood.
Thoughts:
So the book itself felt huge.
Lately, that has been going on for many of them even if the page count is not too high. But the interesting thing was that I really enjoyed it from start to end.
The characters here, there are a lot of them and for plenty of the book, about half of it, it felt like an introduction to each one of them.
Logan, Bayaz, West, Jezal, I mean everyone so very different from one another and yet everyone is intertwined in some way.
The characters capture your attention and you start to care.
There is a lot of socialism, racism, and people feeling all that and much better than others for no other reason than where they were born. I was annoyed with that.
I love it and yet it felt that it was barely the beginning like there was really nothing happening yet. There is a lot of things, mysteries coming forth, you get all kind of questions.
It makes me feel an urgent need to know what happens next and I know that at least for the moment while I am in the middle of many series I will not be able to just read the whole thing back to back.
This book was used to accomplish challenges:
*#Newsyearathon. Book you wanted to finish before 2020
*Get the sh*t done. Finish a book you put down.
*Draw TBR Game. Adult fantasy
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