In most ways, though, Last Argument of Kings continues the threads we’ve seen for the other books. Because while I thought that Abercrombie was presenting deeply flawed characters who were doing their best to be good people, and that those good people might be capable of redemption, it turned out he had a whole secondary game waiting for me in the shadows – one that left me pretty stunned by the end of the series. No, what I misjudged – and what punched me in the gut as Last Argument of Kings finished – was its sense of hope. Not in their quality, and not in their strengths – the rich character building, the black sense of humor, the complex plotting. And yet, I couldn’t have been more wrong in some of my comments that I made about the first and second books in the series. I’ve been marathoning my way through the First Law trilogy now for a while, and with each new chapter, falling more and more under Joe Abercrombie’s spell.
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