Best Served Cold: A First Law Novel (Set in the World of The First Law Book 1)

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One other small observation. Do you worry about the Magi and the Eaters of the dead having a kind of deus ex machina effect at the end of all your books. I thought about how the magi and the eater kind of rigged an ending to the first law book, (jezal being bayaz’s instrument the whole time) and the heroes (calder and bayaz). But maybe I am just over simplifying. Best Served Cold, is your best book imo. Is it dark? Yes. Is it hard to get past some of the crappy things the charaters do to each other? Yes. Would I want to live in such a world? Hell no! Yet it is a great story. Orso snorted. ‘As the plague regrets the dead, I’ll be bound.’ He scratched out a parting swirl on the last signature and tossed down his pen. ‘Everyone must kneel to someone, eh? Make sure you extend to your superiors my infinite gratitude for their indulgence.’

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It’s just a funny thing to me because Monza has many of the exact same problems going on. Much of her reputation as a butcher is mostly built on myth and misunderstanding. Yet she is still despised in many of the same ways. Not just by characters she has wronged, but actual readers. I suspect much of that is steeped in expectations out of what makes a female character likable, though. Unfortunately. Gallows Humor: By the time Monza and her crew arrive in Visserine, he knows that the city is doomed, and spends his last hours joking about his imminent death. Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega Are Probably Going to Have a Very Bad Weekend in A24’s Death of a Unicorn Orso had been born to the wealthiest dukedom in Styria and never done a hard day’s work in his life, but Monza bit her tongue. ‘You do me too much honour, your Excellency.’

She sighed, as if that was an accident. As if she hadn’t spent an hour preening herself before the mirror. ‘Facts are facts. Stating them isn’t a gift. You only prove you’re not blind.’ She yawned, stretched in her saddle, made him wait a moment longer. ‘But I’ll hear more.’ Karmic Death: After spending the entire book reminding both Day and himself how common it is for poisoners to die of their own poisons, this is exactly what happens to him. I was very excited to read BSC after the previous three books but I found it to get somewhat boring in the middle and I stopped reading it for a few months. Later on I got the audio version and finished it up. All short fiction is collected in Sharp Ends: Stories from the World of the First Law (April 2016). There are a total of 13 stories, of which five were original to the collection and eight previously published. [11] Story Properly Paranoid: At first, him killing Monza seems like a bout of paranoia gone wrong, but Benna was planning to kill him and usurp his dukedom. Overlaps with a Nice Job Fixing It, Villain, because he failed to ascertain whether ''Monza'' was as well.

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And you the fearless Duke Benna?’ She laughed at that. ‘You stupid arse. You can scarcely govern your own bowels without my help. War’s a dark enough trade, I draw the line at politics. Orso crowned, then we retire.’

Would Hurt a Child: At the end of Red Country, he threatens to kill some children, demonstrating that he's far beyond redemption at that point. A Father to His Men: Despite the ruthless attitude maintained, she cared deeply about the welfare of her troops and deserved her popularity. The movie follows Monza Murcatto, a battle-hardened mercenary who embarks on a quest of revenge after being left for dead. Best Served Cold isn’t actually the first book in The First Law series. It’s a standalone novel that takes place after the events of the main trilogy, covered in The Blade Itself, Before They Are Hanged and The Last Argument of Kings. If this movie is a success, there are lots of other stories within the First Law universe to explore on the big screen! Joe Abercrombie gives fans update on Best Served Cold, and how the WGA strike affects it I'm a Humanitarian: And quite the gourmet, at that. He even carries around a nice array of spices for steaks and roasts, and loves liver pate.