The Blade Itself

By: Joe Abercrombie
Location: FIC ABE
Genre: High Fantasy and Cam Said
Series: The First Law#1

What kind of genre is "Cam said". Cam is my son and if he says get a book- I get it. He is a Sanderson die hard, a Brian McClellan reader and a Brent Weeks devourer. If Cam says "get it" it becomes the genre of "Cam Said" Probably Nick would agree!

This is good, because I have no idea about this genre, yet I know it is well read and I need people like Cam to recommend these books to me for our library! He begged me to buy him the second- I am a good mum- so I did.

Murderous conspiracies rise to the surface, old scores are ready to be settled, and the line between hero and villain is sharp enough to draw blood.

 Logen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian, has finally run out of luck. Caught in one feud too many, he’s on the verge of becoming a dead barbarian – leaving nothing behind him but bad songs, dead friends, and a lot of happy enemies.

Nobleman Captain Jezal dan Luthar, dashing officer, and paragon of selfishness, has nothing more dangerous in mind than fleecing his friends at cards and dreaming of glory in the fencing circle. But war is brewing, and on the battlefields of the frozen North they fight by altogether bloodier rules.

Inquisitor Glokta, cripple turned torturer, would like nothing better than to see Jezal come home in a box. But then Glokta hates everyone: cutting treason out of the Union one confession at a time leaves little room for friendship. His latest trail of corpses may lead him right to the rotten heart of government, if he can stay alive long enough to follow it.

Enter the wizard, Bayaz. A bald old man with a terrible temper and a pathetic assistant, he could be the First of the Magi, he could be a spectacular fraud, but whatever he is, he's about to make the lives of Logen, Jezal, and Glokta a whole lot more difficult.