1,474 pages later and Joe Abercrombie’s ‘Age of Madness’ trilogy has come to a close in The Wisdom of Crowds.  Together they are a masterpiece in epic storytelling taking a slice of the Circle of the World from unhappy but with relative stability, through the madness of war and rebellion, to a new society tentatively hopeful that the change wrought has been worth the destruction and bloodshed. At the start of the The Wisdom of Crowds, the Union and North have already been through the quite […]

The Trouble with Peace is the second book in Joe Abercrombie’s “Age of Madness” trilogy.  Here is my review for the first book, A Little Hatred .  Following immediately on the heels of events in the fist book, an uneasy peace has been established.  The Union crushed the rebellion in Valbek and the war in the North was brought to an end.  However, hardly anyone is happy about how things turned out. Despite two hundred hangings, the appetite for workers’ rights has only increased and other […]

Savine dan Glotka – “One man’s mad is another’s perceptive” Isern-i-Phail – “One man’s mad is another’s remarkable” In the mid 2000’s I discovered Joe Abercrombie’s gritty and brutal “First Law Trilogy”.  It was unlike any fantasy I had read up to that point and I tore through it.  But for whatever reason I never picked up the standalone volumes that occurred afterwards.  A few years ago Abercrombie put out a YA fantasy series that I was overall disappointed with, excellent first book, second was […]