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Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie

13 reviews

stephaniemcuervo's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Blood, Torture, Slavery, Murder, Gore, Chronic illness, Physical abuse, Cursing, Cannibalism, Xenophobia, War, and Child death

Moderate: Sexual content, Pregnancy, Kidnapping, Vomit, Child abuse, and Death of parent

Minor: Miscarriage, Excrement, and Abortion

da3m0nic's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Blood, Sexual content, War, Murder, Torture, Colonisation, Racism, Violence, Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Misogyny, Kidnapping, Sexism, Vomit, Alcoholism, Xenophobia, and Bullying

Minor: Fatphobia, Sexual harassment, Classism, Excrement, Confinement, and Stalking

nerdkitten's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Vomit, War, Terminal illness, Blood, Cursing, Murder, Rape, Torture, Toxic friendship, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Violence, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Cannibalism, Lesbophobia, Classism, Outing, Ableism, Alcoholism, Gaslighting, Medical content, Racism, Sexual content, Alcohol, Excrement, Grief, and Xenophobia

Minor: Abortion, Body shaming, Abandonment, Death of parent, Fatphobia, Genocide, Infidelity, Misogyny, Pregnancy, and Sexism

josiah17's review against another edition

dark funny tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

"A curse we all have to bear. Round and round in circles we go, clutching at successes that we never grasp, endlessly tripping over the same old failures. Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments." 

Phenomenal conclusion to this trilogy, delivered in absolutely epic fashion. About halfway through it was already my favorite of the three books, and it simply went on to enhance those previous installments with more revelations and seamless converging of plot points. 

The character work is also tremendous. This series is character focused at the core, and it pays huge dividends in this book when the plot emerges and events begin to unfold. 

Abercrombie's humor really hit home for me as well. I knew before starting this series that people considered these books to be constantly hilarious, and I honestly wasn't sure why after the first two books. Sure, they were funny at times, but nothing extraordinarily funny. But this book had me laughing left and right. It was great. 

Overall, this book is certainly a new all-time favorite, as well as this series thanks to the payoff this installment provided for the trilogy as a whole. I can't wait to continue reading the next books in the First Law world!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, War, Gore, Sexual content, and Violence

camam4's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Vomit, Rape, and Sexual violence

surdiablo's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Hands down the best book in the series so far. While I loved the previous books, finding them hilarious and entertaining on a vast scale, I still had an inkling of doubt about the series as a whole, wondering if it's a tad overrated due to the praise I saw it received everywhere referring to it as mind-blowing, which I didn't feel at first, regardless of my consistent enjoyment. After reading this book however, I realized that the first two books were mainly a setup for the final clash but they still masterfully connected every piece of the puzzle, some of them had been dangling in front of my nose the whole time. I wasn't prepared for the final showdown at all, and it went above and beyond my expectations. It's one of the most depressing novels that I have ever read, leaving you alone with the faintest glimmer of hope at the end, and I still loved it..

The characters of course grow further, or at least some of them thinks to themselves that they do. It leaves you with such conflicted feelings wondering who to root for, as even the nicest one among them was a

physically abusive asshole with anger issues

, yet they remain to be captivating all the same. Some of them strives to be better and fails miserably as they make the wrong choices still, while the rest of them do change, but still remain the same at their core. It was honestly a struggle to witness it, all of their lives intertwined together

and at the control of one person who was never what he initially appeared to be, who ultimately wins at the end.

It reminds you of the fact that people don't always get what they deserve, whether it's good or bad, also the fact that some people ultimately reverts back to their base instincts, when under extreme duress. 

All the doubts or questions I had throughout the series were answered and it was so satisfying to see everything unraveled, although it obviously didn't always lead to pleasure :') The whole part II was such a wild ride for me that each chapter left me breathless. It had some of the best action scenes I have ever read

holy shit, that duel was fricking amazing!!!

along with horror, distress, mystery, heartbreak and of course the humor, which this time was overshadowed by bleakness. It had moments that had me cheering at first, which soon turned into horrified gasps. As for the ending itself, pretty much

all the main characters lived which I didn't expect, and yet they are in no better position than when they started, in fact some of them are at their worst.

I can see people hating it, I definitely feel depressed about it, but it was the right ending. All in all, it was very close to a masterpiece if you ask me, almost tied with my favorite book of all time so far. I feel like I need a cigarette after finishing it and I don't even smoke.. Gonna need a palette cleanser before starting the remaining standalone novels.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, Gore, and War

Moderate: Cursing, Alcoholism, and Rape

Minor: Sexual content, Child death, and Pregnancy

cam356's review

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, War, Sexual content, and Alcoholism

marthadude's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Colonisation, Emotional abuse, Lesbophobia, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Murder, Pregnancy, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexism, Slavery, Vomit, War, Addiction, Animal death, Cursing, Death, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Cannibalism, Child death, Classism, Chronic illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Violence

The book is filled with violence and war. There is some slight lesbophobia at the end,

throughout the book, Queen Terez rebuffs Jezal's advances despite their royal marriage. At first, the implication is that she merely looks down on him due to his status as a bastard. However, it is later revealed that she is in a relationship with her handmaiden/childhood friend. Glotka imprisons her lover and blackmails her into producing 4 heirs for the king before she is released. While I don't think Glotka is a lesbophobic character, this scene is extremely unsettling.

coulro's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Toxic friendship, Cursing, Excrement, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Blood, Bullying, Cannibalism, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Torture, Vomit, War, Grief, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Violence

kylieqrada's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Say one thing for Joe Abercrombie, say he's one of my new favorite authors!!!! I really was living for the character arcs in this installment. I am still such a Logan Ninefingers stan, though. I love Glokta as much as the next person, but Logan just does it for me, idk. Also THE REVEALS?! C'mon. Nothing less than perfection. And it really couldn't have ended any other way. Stunninggggggg! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, and Torture

Moderate: Body horror, Cursing, and Rape

Minor: Child death, Sexual content, and Slavery