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Joe Abercrombie repeats the character types from his previous works to the point of merging them together. Heroes... there are too many of them. At the beginning of the book, there's a convenient list of who's who. Not everyone, of course, makes it to the end. Not that it matters much. All the heroes here feel secondary. Recycled character traits. Those familiar by name will behave differently than expected. Those unfamiliar or not well-established will repeat what has already been described — and do it worse than the originals.
Remember how in Tolstoy's War and Peace, the war sections appealed to boys and the peace sections to girls? Here it's exclusively war. I've seen glowing reviews saying this is the best book of the series — from the boys. I don't agree.
The book is dedicated to Eva,…