I’m new to the fantasy community, but I’m glad to see it here on Lemmy as well! I would say my favorite novel/series so far has been Mistborn, but it’s kind of the only one I’ve read so far (although it was fantastic). I’d like to gauge all of your responses too!
I just finished The Blade Itself last week. I really liked it! Going to dive into the rest of the trilogy (and the other books after) soon.
Logen is a fun character. One thing I noticed that I feel Abercrombie does particularly well is the reading tone, style, and just general flow changes by a fair amount depending on who the POV character is. It made me think about it in other books and I concluded it’s something I haven’t given other authors enough credit for doing too… Abercrombie did a particularly good job at it.
It’s almost certainly just a case of me not being far enough into the books yet, but I only really felt like Glotka and his surrounding details was particularly dark.
Think it might end up my favorite series of the year, at least.
Abercrombie is definitely very good at this. Most if the time I could tell from a couple of sentences who’s perspective we were following just from the vibe change. Other writers definitely do this as well, but in this series each character has their own distinctive flavor that is so well defined that he makes it seemless.
You’ve got a way to go, but man is the ride is wild.