I thoroughly enjoyed the First Law trilogy and The Shattered Sea trilogy when I read them a couple of years ago. It’s great! Joe Abercrombie is one of my favourite authors. Glimpsing the future is one thing, but with the guiding hand of the First of the Magi still pulling the strings, changing it will be quite another… What did I think? – Opinion With the help of the mad hillwoman Isern-i-Phail, Rikke struggles to control the blessing, or the curse, of the Long Eye. The age of the machine dawns, but the age of magic refuses to die. But the slums boil over with a rage that all the money in the world cannot control. Savine dan Glokta – socialite, investor, and daughter of the most feared man in the Union – plans to claw her way to the top of the slag-heap of society by any means necessary. But King Jezal’s son, the feckless Prince Orso, is a man who specializes in disappointments. On the blood-soaked borders of Angland, Leo dan Brock struggles to win fame on the battlefield, and defeat the marauding armies of Stour Nightfall. The chimneys of industry rise over Adua and the world seethes with new opportunities. It was published by Gollancz in 2006 and was followed by two other books in The First Law trilogy, Before They Are Hanged and Last Argument of Kings. During a break between jobs he began writing The Blade Itself in 2002, completing it in 2004. He moved into television production before taking up a career as a freelance film editor. Joe Abercrombie studied psychology at Lancaster Royal Grammar School and Manchester University.

In 2014 he published Half a King, the first book in his Shattered Sea series, which won the 2015 Locus Award for best Young Adult book. He is the author of The First Law Trilogy and other related works of fantasy. Joe Abercrombie is a British fantasy writer and film editor. It follows the interweaving stories of seven characters, with the action taking place for the most part in The North and Midderland. A Little Hatred takes place fifteen years after the events in Red Country, and twenty-eight years after the end of the original First Law Trilogy. It takes place in the same world as the First Law Trilogy ( The Blade Itself, Before they are Hanged and The last Argument of Kings) and other standalone novels that followed it ( Best Served Cold, The Heroes and Red Country). A Little Hatred is the first entry in the Age of Madness trilogy, by Joe Abercrombie.

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