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Karmic Death: After all the atrocities he committed over the course of the book, his death at the end of Red Country is incredibly cathartic. For extra irony, he's killed by the man he hired to write his biography. She gets addicted to drugs. She allows herself to (sort of) have a relationship. She demands that Morveer not kill innocents wholesale. What’s going on here? Why is the infamous Snake of Talins, who slaughtered sixty bazillion people in Ohio or whatever, suddenly afraid of a little collateral? By the end of your book, we all know why. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q "Joe Abercrombie Awards". Science Fiction Awards Database. Locus Science Fiction Foundation . Retrieved 19 February 2022. Tyler Dean Gothic Rot and Retribution: The Fall of the House of Usher’s Unsettling Approach to Poe’s Work 20 mins ago
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Vitriolic Best Buds: Early on, she and Benna playfully trade jabs at one another, with the insults getting steadily more heated, ending with Benna calling her 'whore' and 'murderer.' Monza is simply amused. Given the reveal of their relationship, this seems to be something else. Evil Old Folks: By the time of Red Country, age has visibly caught up with him, and it has not made him kinder. To be honest, I’m bored of virgin ladies with sharp tongues, healers with unwavering sense of ethics, and milk-maids whose only role is to charm princes. Orso smiled. ‘Why can my sons not mark my lessons as you have? I entirely approve. Hang only the leaders. And Cantain’s head above the gates. Nothing encourages obedience like a good example.’General Failure: He's a very poor military leader, and has suffered multiple defeats against Orso's forces despite having the superior numbers. I found these beggars wandering the grounds,’ called Foscar, ‘and thought I’d commend them to your charity, Father!’
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Nicomo CoscaFamed soldier of fortune, often found without much at all. Introduced in The First Law. Character Tics: He frequently hums in an unnervingly tuneless manner. Amusingly, this isn't because of any psychological issue- he's just tonedeaf. a b Flood, Alison (17 September 2019). "Joe Abercrombie: 'I think the combination of violence and humour wasn't an immediate easy sell' ". The Guardian . Retrieved 25 February 2021. This book convinced me to read, eventually, The Blade Itself-it took my a couple of years, as I didn’t want to be disappointed if it couldn’t live up to BSC but i loved it and will be soon buying the next two. Monza was convincing, she was utterly fabulous and she was likable. It’s true- face to face you probably wouldn’t like her but because we saw behind the mask we understood her. Not that she would want our understanding, well maybe a little, but not that she would ever admit it, unless of course you held a red hot poker to her eye. Loved her, loved it-completely. It’s just a funny thing to me because Monza has many of the exact same problems going on. Much of her reputation as a butcher is mostly built on myth and misunderstanding. Yet she is still despised in many of the same ways. Not just by characters she has wronged, but actual readers. I suspect much of that is steeped in expectations out of what makes a female character likable, though. Unfortunately.
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: His poisoning of the leaders of the League of Eight leads to Monza becoming Grand Duchess at the end of the novel. Also, his attempt on Cosca's life fails because Cosca temporarily stopped drinking – which Morveer himself had advised him to do. One other small observation. Do you worry about the Magi and the Eaters of the dead having a kind of deus ex machina effect at the end of all your books. I thought about how the magi and the eater kind of rigged an ending to the first law book, (jezal being bayaz’s instrument the whole time) and the heroes (calder and bayaz). But maybe I am just over simplifying.
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