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Sharp Ends: Stories from the World of the First Law by Joe Abercrombie Sharp Ends: Stories from the World of the First Law by Joe Abercrombie Ebook Sharp Ends: Stories from the World of the First Law currently available for review only, if you need complete ebook Sharp Ends: Stories from the World of the First Law please fill out registration form to access in our databases Download here >> Paperback:::: 336 pages+++Publisher:::: Orbit; Reprint edition (March 14, 2017)+++Language:::: English+++ISBN-10:::: 0316390828+++ISBN- 13:::: 978-0316390828+++Product Dimensions::::5.4 x 0.9 x 8.2 inches+++ ISBN10 ISBN13 Download here >> Description: Sharp Ends is the ultimate collection of award winning tales and exclusive new short stories from the master of grimdark fantasy, Joe Abercrombie. Violence explodes, treachery abounds, and the words are as deadly as the weapons in this rogues gallery of side-shows, back-stories, and sharp endings from the world of the First Law. …say he’s a sharp end.Joe Abercrombie, the self-styled “Lord Grimdark” took the fantasy world by storm in the mid-2000s with his First Law trilogy. Part epic fantasy, part satirical deconstruction of Lord of the Rings, and part black comedy, the trilogy introduced us to Abercrombie’s snarky, endearing, and at times utterly horrific menagerie of characters. It will make you laugh, it will make you blanch, and in the end it will leave you with complete emotional exhaustion.The term “grimdark” is a tricky phrase. It means different things to different people. Abercrombie writes a dark world, true, but the moments of genuine beauty and the goodness that human beings are capable of shine through that much brighter for all the muck and grit that covers things. The Circle of the World is a place where being a good man or woman is very hard. But people still try. Sometimes they fair, sometimes they succeed, but the struggle is what makes you root for them. Words like “good” and “evil” often have no place as value judgments in Abercrombie’s world. To paraphrase Logen Ninefingers, sometimes it’s just a matter of where you’re standing.In addition to the First Law trilogy, Abercrombie wrote three stand-alone novels set in the same world, bringing his unique Tolkien-meets-Tarantino flavor to the revenge story, war story, and frontier western genres. Sharp Ends is a collection of short stories that’s pans across his entire First Law timeline, the first coming before the beginning of The Blade Itself, and the last taking place after the end of Red Country. We see some old familiar faces, and are introduced to some new ones as well. These stories have the same combination of comedy, tragedy, violence, and brutality that makes Abercrombie’s other work so brilliant. The cast of characters is diverse, and real in such a profound way that I honestly don’t know how he manages to keep pumping them out.Sharp Ends is the best fantasy collection that I’ve read since George R.R. Martin’s cross-genre anthology, Rogues (which also featured Abercrombie’s Nebula Award winning story, Tough Times All Over). In addition to Tough Times All Over I also have to praise A Beautiful Bastard, Made a Monster, and Some Desperado, though all of these stories are worth the price, and all of them have their own sharp ends… Sharp Ends: Stories from the World of the First Law in Literature and Fiction pdf books Sharp Ends: Stories from the World of the First Law The World Ends: Law First from Stories Sharp of the I wanted this through Tom and Reese. But other than that I really liked it. 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