![]() ![]() But for all that it's probably a lot closer to traditional heroic fantasy than it is to grimdark. One of the main characters is quite happy to murder people during the course of enriching himself. The book has some elements that are often associated with grimdark - there's a lot of muck and dirt, a lot of crudity, swearing (examples: the phrases "bending cocks" and "stretching cunts" crop up quite a bit) and harsh lives lived in fairly hopeless squalor on show. And when my wife saw me reading it she was reminded that she'd liked it a lot, and asked me to buy the next two volumes. ![]() ![]() I know some readers that have been very enthusiastic about my work are big fans of this one. This book treads the line between something I'd really like and something I'm a bit meh on, and it keeps putting a foot to either side. I'm used to seeing people hate books I loved, and to me bouncing off books that some folk adore with religious zeal. ![]()
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