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Hatorade
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It is back to first law, hell it is basically all the original characters in different forms. The berserker type may as well be called the bloody nine.
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Hateyou
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Leo was really fucking stupid and annoyingly so the entire time. Savine was a backstabbing power hungry bitch the entire time. Even after she got scared shitless in the riots and again after she had a kid. Stour was an overly annoying character. Rikke felt like a Mary Sue character, everything going her way and everyone liking her. A lot of main characters were so one dimensional. Judge, some crazy lady people listened to for some unknown reason just killing people for no reason in her court over and over and over. Broad also never changed and was very one trick pony, same with Jonas. Orso and Vick were the only two that really grew much as characters, and I liked reading their stuff, even though it ended shittily for one of them. Isern and Shivers were enjoyable too.
The overarching story I just didn’t care for. I don’t like the modernizing portion of it. Reading about kids in factories and maximizing profits and new inventions, bleh. Give me northmen. I also hated how he was bringing modern politics so blatantly into the story. Leo being hyper racist against brown people and super homophobic because he’s secretly gay. Lord Isher (I think it was him) yelling ‘Make the Union Great Again’ was stupid
Bayaz being completely absent while his Union he has held together for so long spirals out of control was pretty out of character. Allowing it to collapse under debt he was creating also didn’t make sense. Rikke’s trickery later in the story was way too obvious, as was the identity of the Weaver.
Finally, I didn’t like how it ended on such a massive cliffhanger. I would have rather he just ended the story and the next arc just happened but whatever. I didn’t care for this trilogy enough that I may not read the next, which is a shame because his first six books I really love. I’ll probably just give them a chance with low expectations and hope I’m surprised. I still like how he writes, I just didn’t like this story arc or most of the new characters.
The overarching story I just didn’t care for. I don’t like the modernizing portion of it. Reading about kids in factories and maximizing profits and new inventions, bleh. Give me northmen. I also hated how he was bringing modern politics so blatantly into the story. Leo being hyper racist against brown people and super homophobic because he’s secretly gay. Lord Isher (I think it was him) yelling ‘Make the Union Great Again’ was stupid
Bayaz being completely absent while his Union he has held together for so long spirals out of control was pretty out of character. Allowing it to collapse under debt he was creating also didn’t make sense. Rikke’s trickery later in the story was way too obvious, as was the identity of the Weaver.
Finally, I didn’t like how it ended on such a massive cliffhanger. I would have rather he just ended the story and the next arc just happened but whatever. I didn’t care for this trilogy enough that I may not read the next, which is a shame because his first six books I really love. I’ll probably just give them a chance with low expectations and hope I’m surprised. I still like how he writes, I just didn’t like this story arc or most of the new characters.
Oblio
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We can just disagree on this trilogy and still agree that overall Abercrombie is great. Everything you disliked, I enjoyed
Also considering this is the audiobook thread I assume it is obvious we are talk audio versions, but Pacey could read the phone book and make it awesome. He might have more influence on my enjoyment of the last trilogy than I realize.
Hateyou
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Yeah he’s great, and I still love the first six First Law books. I’ll listen to The Devils when I’m done with my current stuff.We can just disagree on this trilogy and still agree that overall Abercrombie is great. Everything you disliked, I enjoyed
Also considering this is the audiobook thread I assume it is obvious we are talk audio versions, but Pacey could read the phone book and make it awesome. He might have more influence on my enjoyment of the last trilogy than I realize.
Maul
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I listened to all of Red Rising by Pierce Brown again recently. I think it might actually be my favourite series of all time now.
First listen through I almost binned it off due to the Irish accent of the narrator, but by the end of the series hes actually great.
First listen through I almost binned it off due to the Irish accent of the narrator, but by the end of the series hes actually great.
Tarrant
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Arbitrary
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I have. I liked it but the balance it has between comedy and adult themes skew a little further on the side of harem anime as it goes on. It's not like it ever becomes a porno or anything but at the same time it goes well beyond innuendo.
If you're fine with that than it's a recommend. They're well written enough that I'd have preferred they just stayed PG 13 but it is what it is.
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DirkDonkeyroot
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I've listened to all the available ones including small chests. Jeff Hays is great in them, but imo the story starts to decline after 8 and kinda craters after 10. It may have been because I read them instead of listening, the writer and I'm guessing his editor don't speak English as their first language and it feels weird.
Hoss
Make America's Team Great Again
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Been listening to Doug Stanhope's audiobook Digging Up Mother. He reads it himself (mostly) and there are times where he pauses and injects more stories or explanations. He tells us up front that he's drinking while he's doing the reading. Man, he's a real piece of shit, but he's a funny motherfucker.
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Tranny Chaser
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I don't think I like either of them as people but Patton Oswald's book Zombie Spaceship Wasteland and Bert Kreischer's Life of the Party : Stories of a Perpetual Man-Child are each read by their authors and it really adds something to the experience. There's a chapter in Oswald's book about getting booked at a club in Canada after coming in second on Star Search (titled The Victory Tour) that I'll still listen to on it's own from time to time. Bert, that fat son of a bitch, laughs at his own writing as he's reading the thing and it's genuinely infectious.
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Hoss
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I'm on Mortimer now, which I think is book 6. You can probably guess why I'm not liking this one. I already bought the next one so I'll see if it picks up.
But I wanted to ask where you read. I heard the story was sanitized by Amazon for kindle. I can't tell if the audible version is sanitized or not.
Also, what's small chests?