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Originally Posted by BlackVoid
If you like dark fantasy, then do not miss Joe Abercrombie's First Law trilogy. It is excellent with lots of dark humor. It is also quite grim and violent.
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As it happens
Before They are Hanged which is book 2 of
First Law has been my top fantasy of 2007
Last Argument of the Kings is a very good ending of the story, but it lacks the implied menace of earlier books, reverting to more straightforward battles, fights and such. Also it's a bit too sprawling, though that one on one duel for the North is awesome, cannot remember a better one in any sff book read. Still a pretty good novel and the series overall is my #1 finished fantasy series for now - if we count Caine as unfinished of course
Caine Black Knife is really a superb book, short as fantasies go at about 300 pages as opposed to the 6-800 pages of the first two, every word counts and here Caine is clearly center stage, though I sometimes miss the Hari persona.