But in all seriousness I’d been wanting to pick up one of Joe Abercrombie’s backlist books for quite some time. Retail therapy is a thing and YALC is dangerous.
I bought my copy of The Blade Itself as a bit of a ‘whim’ purchase at YALC 2019, I was there with friends but I was feeling a little bit tired and introverted, I wanted a book, impulse purchase. 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. 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. 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.Įnter the wizard, Bayaz. But then Glokta hates everyone: cutting treason out of the Union one confession at a time leaves little room for friendship. Inquisitor Glokta, cripple turned torturer, would like nothing better than to see Jezal come home in a box. But war is brewing, and on the battlefields of the frozen North they fight by altogether bloodier rules. 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. 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. Logen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian, has finally run out of luck. I don’t want to give the impression that all the books I talk about are sent for free (nothing wrong with that it’s just not an accurate picture) and I want to give the bought books the same space and hype as I’m giving new released. But I’m trying to do better, not only am I trying to actually reduce my owned TBR, which has been growing since June of last year and sees no sign of stopping, but also to review those books. I so often find myself quietly deleting owned books from my ‘reviews to write’ list and settling for a brief ‘I read this, it was good’ in my monthly wrap-up videos (subscribe to my Youtube Channel for more of my face). Hello Humans! Confession time, reviewing my owned TBR is probably the thing I am absolutely the worst at.
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