Best Served Cold

Joe Abercrombie's BEST SERVED COLD is a bloody and relentless epic of vengeance and obsession in the grand tradition, a kind of hard-boiled fantasy noir The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics). His cast features tyrants and and infamous icons including the world's greatest poisoner and his favored apprentice, a mystical numerology obsessed serial killer, a red-handed warrior from the frigid north, a clandestine operative... Read Full Review

With Best Served Cold, Abercrombie has achieved an even higher level of brilliance than his First Law trilogy, solidly placing himself in the upper echelons of fantasy writers today. What is, quite frankly, a very simple plot, is made excellent by the many unexpected twists readers of the First Law trilogy will have come to expect from Abercrombie. The most astounding aspect of Best Served Cold, however, is Abercrombie's... Read Full Review

Best Served Cold has to be the most anticipated Fantasy read this year. As soon as I got my greedy hands on it I just had to start. All the fervor over the cover design doesn't matter in the end. It is the pages between the cover that counts and that is truly entertaining. Abercrombie is building on the world he started with The First Law Trilogy although centering it on parts not visited prior, namely Styria and it related... Read Full Review

When the infamous mercenary captain, Monza Murcatto, seems to be getting too powerful, her employer, Duke Orso, attempts to have her and Benna, Monza's next-in-command, killed. Short work is made of Benna, but, by a cruel twist of fate, Monza survives, just barely. And her quest for vengeance sets a spark to the powder-keg that is the country of Styria during the Years of Blood. Best Served Cold is a stand-alone novel that... Read Full Review