The Heroes
By Joe Abercrombie

The Heroes is set in the period after the First Law series and is unfreaking believable. After reading this book I grew a beard and set out to make a name for myself. It did not take me long to become a named man. Yet somehow I think “Barile Bubble Belly will” not strike fear in the Union troops or the named men of the north.

The Heroes does an amazing job of filling in the details of the north. The combat is great, the tactics are amazing, and the characters… oh the characters. Just thinking about this book makes me want to reread it. If the coffee shop were open right now I would ride down and crack the book open and start ingesting caffeine and carbs!

Even if you haven’t read the first three books you could sneak this book in and be satisfied, but why cheat yourself. You deserve it, go get The Blade Itself and take a holiday. When you plow through all of Abercrombie's books and get to the Heroes you’ll thank me.

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Review by Cordell

New story...

I have written about 6k words today of a new story. Its outlined and I had hoped to keep it under 10k words if possible. I fear I am falling under the Robert Jordan curse of writing, in that everything I write comes out far longer than I had planned. We will see if I can cut it down during the editing process.

The story itself is about an elite soldier who deserts after a horrible battle that wiped most if not all of his unit out. He wanders across a desert, chased by one of the horrors that killed all his friends and brothers. His psyche shatters as he fades in and out of coherent thought. Always marching forward. When he fades out his mind travels back and he relives his life, leading up finally to the battle that broke him and his unit.

Each of time he fades out we get a new short story from his past. I am working on the first, how Brast left home with other boys from the villages of their homeland and traveled through the mountains to their training grounds and the trial that awaits them there. 

Can't wait to get feedback from Cordell when I get it done.

Ok back to the grind stone and my bruised fingertips. Ha!