Red Country
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Joe Abercrombie
A New York Times bestseller!They burned her home.They stole her brother and sister.But vengeance is following.Shy South hoped to bury her bloody past and ride away smiling, but she'll have to sharpen up some bad old ways to get her family back, and she's not a woman to flinch from what needs doing. She sets off in pursuit with only a pair of oxen and her cowardly old step father Lamb for company. But it turns out Lamb's buried a bloody past of his own. And out in the lawless Far Country the past never stays buried.Their journey will take them across the barren plains to a frontier town gripped by gold fever, through feud, duel and massacre, high into the unmapped mountains to a reckoning with the Ghosts. Even worse, it will force them into an alliance with Nicomo Cosca, infamous soldier of fortune, and his feckless lawyer Temple, two men no one should ever have to trust . . .Red Country takes place in the same world as the First Law trilogy, Best Served Cold, andThe Heroes. This novel also represents the return of Logen Ninefingers, one of Abercrombie's most beloved characters.
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Author
Joe Abercrombie
Pages
480
Publisher
Orbit
Published Date
2012-11-13
ISBN
0316214442 9780316214445
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"I can't very well put in words how good this man's stories are. I have read them all but the shattered sea Trilogy. Everything else is flipping awesome ! I like audiobooks too & the narrator for Abercrombie books is the best. There is so much detail & funny truly funny, dark, nail biting, content. Characters I love & some I hate. There is much of the grey area of real life that Abercrombie captured in his books, like Bukowski & McCourt did. "
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"I've read the other First Law books at least 3 times, and had never delved back into Red Country, as, at the time it was my least favorite of the 6. As this book is the most recent to his new trilogy "the age of madness", it was great going back and seeing where the author left off before the time jump.<br/><br/>I still get goosebumps reading about the Bloody nine, but Shy and Temple were much better, believable characters reading it a second time. The idea of the Gold rush, and how these towns could rise and fall overnight was incredibly well done with Cosca......his fate deserved. I would give this one a 4.5, but because I love his works upped it to a 5!"
Wesley Spence
"Kind of wanted to see Shivers and Logen fight, but I digress."
Haeliegh Justice
"I suggest starting from the beginning of the series or you'll do yourself a disservice. The first law trilogy. "
Jared Siegfried
"I haven't read the book yet, looking at my options for when i do :) I'm interested in reading Tolkien, but we'll see."
Jeremy D
