Before They Are Hanged

by Joe Abercrombie

Paperback, 448 pages

English language

Published March 24, 2008 by Pyr.

ISBN:: 978-1-59102-641-9
OCLC Number:: 179808127

(14 reviews)

Superior Glokta has a problem. How can he defend a city surrounded by enemies and riddled with traitors, when his allies can by no means be trusted? Ancient secrets will be uncovered and bitter enemies will be forgiven--but not before they are hanged--in this sequel to "The Blade Itself."

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4 stars

This is so good! I am still blown away. It's not as dark than I expected it to be, but it's still very shades of grey. Every character has huge flaws. There are still not enough women. Only thing that bothered me is dudes being mad/jealous about other dudes have consensual sex with women.

But the rest, including putting tropes on their head (here's looking at you, Bayaz' fellowship of the whatever), was awesome. Glokta is soooo my favorite.