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Half a King by Joe Abercrombie
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H-H-H-H-H-H-H-HOLY SHHHHHHHIIIIIT!

THE TWISTS! THE TURNS! THE CONSPIRACIES! THE BETRAYALS!

THEY ALL FUCKING BUUUUUURN

MY HEART CAN'T TAKE IT

I DO NOT KNOW WHAT TO THINK

I DO NOT KNOW WHO TO TRUST

IS THERE SOMEONE PLOTTING AGAINST ME TOO

*eyes shift to father*

*eyes shift to mother*

*eyes shift to brothers*

*eyes shift to grandmother*

Curious..... very curious indeed....

*eyes shift to dog*

Okay, you're cool, dog. I doubt you even know what I'm talking about.

BUT CRAAAAAAP

This. Book. Is. AWESOME.

This. Book. Is. INTELLIGENT.

This. Book. Is. DEVASTATING.

This. Book. blowseveryotheryafantasybooksoutofthewaterbecausetheyaremediocre.

Yes. I say it. THEY'RE MEDIOCRE. Compared to this baby.

Complex. Dark. Bittersweet. Gritty. Merciless.

Definitely no-nonsense. No fucking candy romance. No mary sues. No gary sues. No cop outs. No deus ex machina. All human affairs in its dark glory.

AKA: YA Fantasy at its very finest <3 <3 <3

FINAL VERDICT: 100000/5 STARS

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Reading Progress

April 6, 2014 – Started Reading
April 6, 2014 – Shelved
April 6, 2014 –
6.0% "Loving it so far. Joe Abercombie is the man, dude. Seriously.

A young prince born with one hand less and who dreams of being a minister suddenly finds himself King after his father and older brother were assassinated. I'm sorry but... THIS PREMISE IS AWESOME D00D."
April 6, 2014 –
16.0% "OMFG WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

WHYYYYY I TRUSTED YOU
HE TRUSTED YOU
SHE TRUSTED YOOOOOUUUU

FRAAAACCCKKKKKKKKK

BETRAAAYAAAAALLL

IT HUUUURTS"
April 8, 2014 – Finished Reading

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message 1: by Dre (new) - added it
08 avr. 2014 14:26

Dre Looks like an awesome book!


message 2: by Dear Faye (new) - rated it 5 stars
08 avr. 2014 14:30

Dear Faye IT WAS AWESOME DRE AHHHHH


message 3: by Rashika (is tired) (new)
08 avr. 2014 14:33

Rashika (is tired) *sneaks up behind Faye*


message 4: by Dear Faye (new) - rated it 5 stars
08 avr. 2014 14:35

Dear Faye *gasp* DON'T TELL ME IT WAS YOU ALL ALONG WHO PLOTTED AGAINST ME RASHIKA TRAITOR


message 5: by Dre (new) - added it
08 avr. 2014 14:41

Dre I'll check it out when it comes out :)


message 6: by Colin (new) - rated it 2 stars
08 avr. 2014 14:47

Colin .... looks like it's time for me to give Joe Abercrombie another chance ahahahah


message 7: by Dear Faye (new) - rated it 5 stars
08 avr. 2014 14:49

Dear Faye I LOVED his First Law Trilogy. Haha. I had my doubts when I saw he wrote for YA, but frack I need to stop doubting and start trusting <3 You can never go wrong with him (along with Brandon Sanderson!) when it comes to fantasy :D


message 8: by Colin (new) - rated it 2 stars
08 avr. 2014 16:53

Colin Oh yeah, I've seen your reviews haha, sadly the First Law trilogy wasn't for me :/ Pretty much DNF'd the first book..... but I'm willing to give this book a chance! And of course, Brandon Sanderson is freaking awesome ;D


message 9: by Rashika (is tired) (new)
09 avr. 2014 18:24

Rashika (is tired) I"VE ALWAYS BEEN THE TRAITOR FAYE.
YOU JUST NEVER KNEW


message 10: by Dear Faye (new) - rated it 5 stars
09 avr. 2014 18:28

Dear Faye *puts poison in your brownies*
*laces poison in your pencil erasers*
*readies anthrax*


message 11: by Rashika (is tired) (new)
09 avr. 2014 18:39

Rashika (is tired) ahhh but those were the same brownies I was sending over to you for your birthday.
I GUESS WE CAN DIE TOGETHER <33333333
WE'LL NEVER BE APART


message 12: by Shera (Book Whispers) (new) - added it
10 avr. 2014 05:06

Shera (Book Whispers) Now the long wait for July.


message 13: by Dre (new) - added it
10 avr. 2014 06:24

Dre You and Rashika are hilarious!


message 14: by [deleted user] (new)
10 avr. 2014 12:13

Lol, your first Joe Abercrombie experience, I take it?


message 15: by Dear Faye (new) - rated it 5 stars
10 avr. 2014 12:27

Dear Faye Nope :) I read his First Law Trilogy.


message 16: by Tandie (new) - added it
25 avr. 2014 22:07

Tandie I've got this. Need to catch up on ARCs a bit first. You asked once if I had a blog. I just started on Wordpress & kinda don't know what I'm doing. It's rough & I hate the layout. When I try to change it or crop pictures, it doesn't work on my iPad. I think that I need to try it on our computer.


message 17: by Dear Faye (new) - rated it 5 stars
26 avr. 2014 04:53

Dear Faye Woot! I can't wait to see your insights, Tandie!


message 18: by [deleted user] (new)
05 mai 2014 22:58

I COULD NOT AGREE MORE!


message 19: by Dear Faye (new) - rated it 5 stars
06 mai 2014 02:16

Dear Faye Super awesome, isn't it XD I can't wait for Half a World. Joe said it should be more adult-y as the people are older.


message 20: by [deleted user] (new)
06 mai 2014 02:22

Hells yeah! I'm super psyched!!


message 21: by Lisa (new) - added it
16 juin 2014 15:55

Lisa *eyes shift to dog* Hahahha. Love this!


message 22: by Baz (new) - added it
07 juil. 2014 04:04

Baz Faye, you read all the books that I seem to have great interest in :P
(Referring to Tower Lord)
I have to ask haha which one did you enjoy more?


message 23: by Dear Faye (new) - rated it 5 stars
07 juil. 2014 04:25

Dear Faye It's hard to tell! They're all so different :P But I recently read the Stormlight Archive series by Brandon Sanderson (2 out of 10 books planned) and I have to say they were the best I've ever, ever, ever, EVER read...


message 24: by Baz (new) - added it
07 juil. 2014 04:50

Baz Wow, I didn't want to read those books till maybe more have come out. But people keep telling me they're "SO GOOD READ THEM". Sigh, Im going to give in :(


message 25: by Baz (new) - added it
07 juil. 2014 04:52

Baz Oh and how old is Yarvi?


message 26: by Dear Faye (new) - rated it 5 stars
07 juil. 2014 04:55

Dear Faye You really have to give in! If you want Baz, you can join me and many others in our Brandon Sanderson Cosmere Read-Along (the Cosmere being the universe where 4 of his series are in, so there's a story hidden behind the stories~). We'll be touching WoK, and many of his other books, and discussing them weekly on Twitter~

http://thesocialpotato.maryfaye.net/2...

To be honest I've quite forgotten how old he was but he's definitely in his teens. In the sequel of this one, he should be in his twenties or something.


message 27: by Baz (new) - added it
07 juil. 2014 05:12

Baz Holy crap, that is genius. "I was therefore a great surprise when I discovered these books were all actually set in the same universe". I've been planning a book that I'm writing and I've thought about the concept of a epic fantasy story being connected beyond the world they live and how to connect it in some way. If Sanderson has done it, kudos to him.

Due to time constraints I can't commit to the read along but if I do get time I'll definitely try and read his books.

Thanks for your awesome reviews, I'm following you now and hope to see more of them in the future.


message 28: by Brigid (new)
25 juil. 2014 06:31

Brigid Not the dog Faye! ;p


message 29: by Dear Faye (new) - rated it 5 stars
25 juil. 2014 06:35

Dear Faye HAHAHAHA! But but but his eyes keep looking at me! Very suspicious....


message 30: by Tanja (Tanychy) (new) - added it
25 juil. 2014 07:42

Tanja (Tanychy) Damn. I cannot wait to read this now!


message 31: by Valerie (new)
25 juil. 2014 18:19

Valerie hahahahaah OK I WILL ADD THIS TO TBR. I don't think I've ever seen you get crazy excited through a review, THIS MUST MEAN SOMETHING


message 32: by Dear Faye (new) - rated it 5 stars
26 juil. 2014 07:19

Dear Faye YESSSS! Valerie, I swear you'll see YA Fantasy redefined ;)


message 33: by Hersh (new) - rated it 3 stars
22 sept. 2014 13:24

Hersh FANTASTIC REVIEW! I so need to read this asap!


message 34: by Tom (new)
23 avr. 2015 20:34

Tom recently finished this and loved it, but I found it difficult to accept that "spoiler" could function as king at the end, considering how traumatised and mad he was.


message 35: by Nenia (new)
21 fév. 2017 08:33

Nenia Campbell I lost it at *eyes shift to dog*

You're so funny! XD


message 36: by Ausra Kovas (new) - rated it 5 stars
15 jan. 2023 12:21

Ausra Kovas Your review is spot on! I devoured this book.


message 37: by Juzefa (new)
12 avr. 2023 15:47

Juzefa Yep, this one review convinced me to give it a go


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