Red Country

De: Joe Abercrombie

Narrado por: Steven Pacey

A New York Times bestseller!
They burned her home.
They stole her brother and sister.
But vengeance is following.

Shy South hoped to bury her bloody past and ride away smiling, but she'll have to sharpen up some bad old ways to get her family back, and she's not a woman to flinch from what needs doing. She sets off in pursuit with only a pair of oxen and her cowardly old step father Lamb for company. But it turns out Lamb's buried a bloody past of his own. And out in the lawless Far Country the past never stays buried.

Their journey will take them across the barren plains to a frontier town gripped by gold fever, through feud, duel and massacre, high into the unmapped mountains to a reckoning with the Ghosts. Even worse, it will force them into an alliance with Nicomo Cosca, infamous soldier of fortune, and his feckless lawyer Temple, two men no one should ever have to trust . . .

Red Country takes place in the same world as the First Law trilogy, Best Served Cold, andThe Heroes. This novel also represents the return of Logen Ninefingers, one of Abercrombie's most beloved characters.

9 Fingers for the win

Joe Abercrombie can do no wrong in my opinion. This one has all his signatures. The darkness, the fantastic dialogue between characters, and the overall storyline can’t be beat. I’m such a huge fan.

Stellar!

Amazing characters, rich world, entertaining dialog and brutal action. Pacey’s narration is tops. I’ve read over five hundred fantasy books. In my estimation, Abercrombie writes best fantasy books out there, bar none.

Meh, like a cowboy story

(Spoiler)

Rowe is a horribly written character, so let me get this straight.. After she’s kidnapped she’s with the dragon people for like what 3 months? 5? Not very long, but In that time she has a new daddy and Lamb who has taken care of her since an infant is still just lamb? lol absolutely ridiculous how ‘close’ she is to her new slaver family’ and she’s completely learned there language? Lmfao get out of here joe, awful writing on rowed part, should have been YEARS of her being gone, not months

Solid western with low fantasy trappings

Enjoyed the new characters and the failing forward. Some will enjoy the return of a former character.

The writing, the narration

Well shite, one book less I have in front me by this guy. I really like his stories. Dismal, but humorous often as well. And Pacey I think has a large part, no a huge part I think, in why I’ve enjoyed these books so far.
I heard it once compared to game of thrones. Not even. Don’t get me wrong I loved those books too. And they’re both of the same fantasy style. But the humor in Abercrombie’s writing makes you enjoy them without wanting to get drunk after. There were times during GOT that I was literally depressed, no redemption anywhere for anything.
Another word about Pacey. One guy reviewed him as horrible - because he didn’t like the way “albino” was pronounced. And took great pains to character assassinate him as illiterate. What a joke. Pacey has more characters than Sybil running around in that head of his. Quite fun most is my point. The un-American dialects of English language pronunciations not withstanding.

Ok all that’s my 02c That’s said if you enjoy lots of action, while having fun that isn’t cliche or slapstick,, I’d say he’s self effacing but he’s not writing about himself, of the characters while also portraying in deadly earnest their power and strength or weaknesses etc. Adventure not requiring too much thought, yet very intelligent, enough to make it feel real. Then give it a try. But I’d suggest going to the First Law series book 1 otherwise you’d not get it early enough and would miss too much to truly enjoy it. Still it’d be good. But that’s only because you didn’t know what you missed. Give it a whirl.