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A review by peterkeep
Sharp Ends by Joe Abercrombie
5.0
It took me a while to pick this up, mainly because I always had other books to read and short stories can seem disjointed moving from one to the next. When I finally did buy it, I was in the middle of a busy schedule so I thought it would work nicely to read, instead of one long book.
It's really good. It is a collection of short stories, but they're all relatively connected. Maybe it's because I just really like the First Law world, but these are really cool stories in that they have a ton of common themes and they allow Abercrombie to do some cool writing things.
I remember when I was reading The Heroes, there was a scene in the middle of a gruesome battle where we were following some random soldier, and then when he got killed, we switched to follow the soldier that killed him. And as more deaths piled up, we kept switching to follow the killers. It was a cool scene and a neat little technique that I hadn't seen before. Abercrombie does these things in his books, and they're fun to notice. It seems like he took this collection of short stories and really tried some things in it. That little trick in The Heroes gets performed here as well as the main story telling device in one of the later stories and it works really well. He does some
other, different, things as well, and they're all pretty great.
Abercrombie is definitely one of the best out right now and this little collection of stories shows why. He writes snappy, fun stories with a ton of skill, and somehow ends the collection the same way he ends his books. It's awesome to read.
It's really good. It is a collection of short stories, but they're all relatively connected. Maybe it's because I just really like the First Law world, but these are really cool stories in that they have a ton of common themes and they allow Abercrombie to do some cool writing things.
I remember when I was reading The Heroes, there was a scene in the middle of a gruesome battle where we were following some random soldier, and then when he got killed, we switched to follow the soldier that killed him. And as more deaths piled up, we kept switching to follow the killers. It was a cool scene and a neat little technique that I hadn't seen before. Abercrombie does these things in his books, and they're fun to notice. It seems like he took this collection of short stories and really tried some things in it. That little trick in The Heroes gets performed here as well as the main story telling device in one of the later stories and it works really well. He does some
other, different, things as well, and they're all pretty great.
Abercrombie is definitely one of the best out right now and this little collection of stories shows why. He writes snappy, fun stories with a ton of skill, and somehow ends the collection the same way he ends his books. It's awesome to read.