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This entire series was five stars from start to finish. It's become one of my favorites, and I'm sure I'll return to it from time to time. The audio narration was very well done. Great for #scarathlon #wordsearch too.
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Ahem, this belly is not gonna rub itself. How bout we put the book down? 😄

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I don‘t have a cat but here‘s Randall, my daughter @she_she ‘s lizard. Finally completed the trilogy. It has its highs and lows. I think it suffered from that 2000‘s scourge of unnecessary trilogies. Padded stories designed to sell 3 books when one would easily do. A LOTR cash-in. This isn‘t nearly as epic as the author thinks it is. The last quarter of this book picks up the pace and shows what could have been done if the tale was tightened up.

My September favorite read was easily Last Argument of Kings, finishing up the dark and amazing First Law Trilogy by Joe Abercrombie. If you love character driven stories with not a ton of plot, but plenty of action, check this one out. Some of my favorite book characters of all time here. #12booksof2022

A fantastic, brutal, epic conclusion to the trilogy. Glokta is now a forever favorite book character. I look forward to continuing in this world. This is most definitely grim dark, violent fantasy, so not necessarily for everyone. I however loved it! 5⭐️
#SuperSeptember book 6! #20in4 #Readathon

Life is a series of things we would rather not do - Joe Abercrombie

The final book in the First Law trilogy and I'm giving myself a massive pat on the back for completing this.

This was my first ever dip into the grim dark fantasy genre. I'm always game to try anything but I'm not sure I'd rush back to read anything more from this sub genre as its not really for me.

There was a handful of characters in these books that I had an interest in and I'm glad I saw their stories through to the end.

The last book in the First Law trilogy arrived this week.

Cool jacket! The hardcover has foiling, the end papers are new, stenciled edges that form a picture when shelved with the first 2 books.

Signed by the author. Limited edition.

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1. I‘m on track to finish LAST ARGUMENT OF KINGS tomorrow! Maybe I didn‘t love these books the way I expected to, but I‘ve enjoyed them a lot. I‘m glad I finally read them.

2. This Roasted Marshmallow Lager was too weird to leave at the store. Luckily, it was also delicious. I guess I DO like the occasional sweet beer.

This week‘s goal: finish the First Law Trilogy. I wasn‘t sure I felt like reading Joe Abercrombie right after I finished something by K.J. Parker, but I‘m 50 pages in after my breakfast session and I‘m really feeling it.

This is definitely not your average fantasy and doesn't have the usual tropes you see in fantasy. The story took me in unexpected twists and turns but the characters are so consistently true to themselves throughout right to the last page.

All the stars 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

🌟🌟🌟 Whew! Honestly this was one of the most unsatisfying endings ever! These books are heavily character driven rather than plot driven, so you invest oodles into these people and you want to root for them, but alas most of these guys didn‘t have the ending I thought they would.

I don‘t want to give any spoilers, so I‘ll just say this was an enjoyable ride, the journey was awesome, but overall end result was so disappointing.

I am posting one book per day from my to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new - don‘t judge me I have a lot of books.
Join the fun if you want. This is day 5.
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My #bookspinbingo board from August 📚 Far from a stellar performance 🙈 But I‘ve knocked three books off my Kindle backlist and DNF-ed another - a #metoo thriller that didn‘t really work for me.

Happy Fourth of July everybody!!!!!
Hope everyone is having a great day and gets a chance to barbecue and celebrate some freedom!
If you get a chance check out my review of this book!
Tomorrow I‘ll be posting why you should read the first law trilogy. Y‘all have a great day and stay safe!

Last Argument of Kings - But Not My Last First Law Video https://youtu.be/0ofmHZjBDzE

Finished this one yesterday. Very solid, consistent wrap up to the series. Not too many surprises here, which means the story was well thought out and planned.
Character work is excellent. Personal favorites are Logen and Glokta!!
Writing style, not my favorite. Very simplistic, straight to the point prose. I like prose to be flowery and lyrical.
Overall 17/20. My YouTube video: https://youtu.be/0ofmHZjBDzE

All right last time waking up at 4 o‘clock in the morning for the next couple of days. Got a few free days for Fourth of July to go see family, but now I got a little bit of reading, a little bit of tea, and then work till two. Hope y‘all have a great day!!

Not hitting this nearly as fast as I would like :S I should be finished by now 😭 waking up at four and being at work at 5:30 makes it difficult I usually average a hundred-200 pages a day but I‘ve been doing 50 or so lately. Aaaaaaah!!! Anyway reading for a few hours than sleeping lol I‘m doing Prince of Thorns when I‘m done with this trilogy. This last book is dense though.

Courage can come from many places, and be made of many things, and yesterday‘s coward can become tomorrow‘s hero if the time is right. - Joe Abercrombie. My boi Jezal turned out alright after all, who woulda thunk it pretty boy?

If you can, make it a priority to read a little bit every morning! I‘m at a state in my life where I don‘t any other important obligations in the morning (make wifey breakfast, drive kiddos to school etc), one of the many downsides to being an eligible bachelor. So I use my time to read in the morning. Tea and books, medicine for the heart and the soul.

Finally off work making me a hot tea and drinking this book in page by page and my tea sip for sip. Honestly I saw a lot of this coming but I like it!! And am not sure what the wrap up will look like. Also on anyone who is a tea drinker: what‘s your favorite brand and kind of tea?

Say a thing for Logen Ninefingers, say that he‘s finished. Black tea and a good book in the morning before work :)

Say a thing for Logen Ninefingers, say that he‘s finished. Black tea and a good book in the morning before work :)

Halfway through :) glad I stuck with this series!!

Movie (and reading) day with my two boys ❤️

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HOLY GUACAMOLE! The Bloody-Nine! He is a Beast! Last Argument of Kings comes full circle in this final installment. All the treachery and lies! Death...death...and more death! An abundance of emotions were felt for Marshall West. Glokta, Logen, Bayaz, Jezal, and many more will live on forever. What an amazing trilogy! Rock on #TheFirstLaw⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Finally! Moving on to The Last Argument of Kings #TheFirstLaw

Just finished this bad boy! I‘ll admit I‘m not one for combat scenes, so this didn‘t really get good until about half-way in for me. Still, that ending was worth it.

By far my favorite so far. This trilogy was awesome. Loved all of the characters, plot lines, and especially the twists and turns. Abercrombie makes you think he‘s going one way and then flat out punches you in the face with a completely different direction. Sand Dan Glotka has to be my favorite fantasy character of all time right now. #100pagesaday

This fight was very predictable but exciting. Unfortunately the end just came upon so quickly and was a slight let down.
#100pagesaday Streak is now at 2.

Time to push myself and see how many days I can consistently read #100pagesaday . Streak is now at 1.

"But you can‘t truly hate a man without loving him first, and there‘s always a trace of that love left over."

Start of the Christmas holidays done right, laying in bed reading this wonderfully violent book! 🎅🏼

I didn't love this trilogy, and I especially didn't love the final book. With the exception of Logen Ninefingers, there wasn't a main character I cared about. And while I like the whole 'gritty fantasy' thing as much as the next guy, there's a difference between realistic and unnecessarily depressing. Out of the trilogy, book 2 was my favourite and this was probably the one I liked the least. I'll give it ⭐️⭐️1/2 and the series as a whole ⭐️⭐️⭐️.

He frowned over at Bayaz, stabbing his finger at something in his old book. “What ever is he up to, anyway?”

“Saving the world, he tells me.”

“Ah. That. He‘s left it a little late, don‘t you think?"

She shrugged. “I‘m not in charge of the timing.”

You can have enemies you never really meet, Logen had plenty. You can kill men you don‘t know, he‘d done it often. But you can‘t truly hate a man without loving him first, and there‘s always a trace of that love left over.

It‘s hard to be done a favour by a man you hate. It‘s hard to hate him so much afterwards. Losing an enemy can be worse than losing a friend, if you‘ve had him for long enough.

And so it comes to this; an ending that must've upset a huge number of people. But Squidapus felt that if one has been following the theme and tone of the trilogy, how else did they expect it to end? A harsh sort of realism most don't look for in their tales of fantasy and magic. When everyone is out for themselves and can't become something better than they are, what happy ending could they find together? Not a fun series but well worth reading.

He hadn‘t deserved to die like that, most likely. But that‘s what war is. A lot of folk getting killed that don‘t deserve it.

👑 👑 👑 👑 There was a lot to like in this book and it was good to wrap up the trilogy. I've learned a lot about myself and my reading likes/dislikes with these books. Two things I dislike are prolonged battle scenes and male-centric sex scenes (especially in stories where women are meant to be as strong and empowered). There was one plot twist that I saw coming and one that I didn't. Overall it was fun but probably not something I'll reread.

Fourth #read of 2018 #readingchallenge is #LastArgumentOfKings by #JoeAbercrombie 📖
#TheFirstLaw has become one of my ultimate favourite series, mainly because of the raw and humoristic telling of this #dystopian story . The whole thing is exqusitely developed, and it‘s a story I can just lose myself in for hours💜 Looking very much forward (and not so much at all) to reach the end of this journey with this cast of loveable, murderous lunatics ⚔️

The conclusion to Joe Abercrombie's epic fantasy FIRST LAW TRILOGY brings together the various plot strands in a way that's mostly satisfying while leaving open a possible return for some of the characters and neatly subverting the mainstays of fantasy fiction but there are pacing issues towards the end, the siege of Agriont reminded me too much of Glokta's defence of Dagoska in the preceding book and the female characters were disappointing.

This was a very satisfying continuation of the First Law series. I feel like it dragged a bit with just too many detailed battle sequences, but the conclusion was well done with some interesting twists.

It feels like Friday took six days longer to arrive than usual. I'm exhausted and I'm just going to sit here and read until I start to fall asleep.

After the end of Before They Are Hanged, I am so freaking happy I have the next book to jump into - this series is great!

Book mail arrived today! Woo Hoo!!! 😀🎉🎉🎉🎉