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“He flopped sideways, mute testament to the greatest fighting technique of all: a friend behind your enemy.”

The Devils by Joe Abercrombie

November 9, 2025 by faintingviolet 7 Comments

The Devils is my first Abercrombie book. I’ve had Half a King on my TBR for over a decade, but it hadn’t made its way onto an annual list yet. But as is often the case over the past many years narfna reviewed something ecstatically which had me checking to see if it fit a reading challenge (I’m counting this as weird horror for Read Harder and Black for CBR Bingo) and then it made its way to this year’s list.  My brain is tired having finished the nearly 550 pages of this book. But the good kind of tired. The “I just […]

Filed Under: Featured, Fiction Tagged With: black, cbr17bingo, Dark Fantasy, first in a series, found family, joe abercrombie, read harder challenge, roadtrip, The Devils, weird horror

faintingviolet's CBR17 Review No:51 · Genres: Featured, Fiction · Tags: black, cbr17bingo, Dark Fantasy, first in a series, found family, joe abercrombie, read harder challenge, roadtrip, The Devils, weird horror ·
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