Red Country

By: Joe Abercrombie

Narrated by: Steven Pacey

Length: 19 hrs and 52 mins

Publisher's summary

Shy South comes home to her farm to find a blackened shell; her brother and sister have been stolen and she's going to have to return to her bad old ways if she's ever going to see them again. She sets off in grim pursuit with only her cowardly old step-father Lamb for company. But it turns out he's hiding a bloody past of his own. None bloodier.

Their journey will take them across the lawless plains, to a frontier town gripped by gold fever, through feuds, duels and massacres, and high into unmapped mountains to a reckoning with ancient enemies, and force them into alliance with Nicomo Cosca, infamous soldier of fortune...and a man no one should ever have to trust…

Steven Pacey is best known for his role as Del Tarrant in the third and fourth seasons of the sci-fi series Blake's 7.

He has worked extensively in Theatre, TV and film for many years and in 2009 played opposite Graham Norton in La Cage Aux Folles at London's Playhouse Theatre. He has read numerous audiobooks including Joe Abercrombie's First Law Trilogy, Best Served Cold and The Heroes, and abridged titles by Matthew Reilly.

©2012 Joe Abercrombie (P)2012 Orion Publishing Group

I love this book!!!!

If you could sum up Red Country in three words, what would they be?

Bloody nine fingers

What was one of the most memorable moments of Red Country?

the last fight

Which scene was your favorite?

the last one

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

allmost, but it is a bit long

Any additional comments?

It compliments the last trilogy, and i love joe abercrombies writing:-)

Excellent performance by Steven Pacey.

Another excellent performance by Steven Pacey. Although this is probably my least favorite book in the first law world (not sure why really, it just is), the standard is ser very high.

Incredible

I've read all books released before this one and they just keep flooring me. As good as it gets, this is.

perfection?

these books, read by this guy... my best audio book experience to date. I don't know if it's perfection... but it's the closest I've found.

usually I would do something, be driving or gardening or whatever when listening to audio books. but these ones. sometimes I will just sit, close my eyes and listen.

Would give 4.5 stars

Fantastic book. Great themes, great characters, great pacing. One of Joes best books yet. The series keeps getting better can’t wait to see how the lady three are.

More of the same, like it or not

Abercrombie seems to have run out of ideas after a terrific start with the First Law trilogy. Now we just get a series of relatively straight forward stories that seem to go nowhere and give us no new insight into the greater picture of the land, it's people and politics.

Abercrombie needs to return to the style of the First Law: expansive, in depth, political, twists and turns and some real good surprises, not to mention a little magic and the sting in the tail ending.

This book like the Heroes and Cold Blood seem to be a platform for venting his liking of uninhibited violence, mutilation and general antithesis of mainstream fantasy. It would be more palatable if put in a greater context which is seriously lacking here.

This is probably the last book I'll listen to from this author even though Pacey really makes it shine as he did for the rest. If the next book is a mostly a cut and paste of the others with a change of characters and slightly modified plot line, then I'm afraid Joe has lost a listener.