ABERCROMBIE BOOKS ~ let's discuss ~ First Law retrospective and A Little Hatred reading vlog 

Orso is my fav character of all time 🤣 your feelings towards him were a rollercoaster for me haha Savine is my second fav, what a badass yet such a complex female character

I finished the trilogy at the beginning of the year. I loved Orso basically from the beginning. I have to say at least one thing in his defense - he’s not stupid. That title belongs to different characters, but I don’t want to spoil anything. Leo was the one I was reluctant about though. I hated his constant need for heroism, that meant to only paint him as a hero - which was a bit similar to Orso. I would even love a spoiler video from you about this trilogy.

The Judge is the best. Every time she is there, the world is shakening.

Truly clever things are said with short words. Long ones are used to hide stupidity.

Abercrombie is my favorite author. I just love the way he writes. This book, and this series has so many great moments, and so many surprises.

Good news on the adaptation front: Best Served Cold is being adapted for film with Tim Miller set to direct and Abercrombie has written the script.

Ferro Maljinn is one of my favorite characters from the First Law. I have been hoping that we might see more of what is happening with her and the seed. Her killing The Emperor and attacking The Prophet is cool, but I want to see her come back for Bayaz. I want her to have a storyline that suits her. She sought vengeance, and found it. Now she should be listening to the Tellers of Secrets.

First law is my favorite universe, so many memorable characters, seeing how they change over time, so good

I won't watch in case of spoilers, but I'll leave my Like and say this - I was late to Joe Abercrombie's works. I just finished my first book 'The Blade Itself' last month and loved it. So I'm very much looking forward to reading the rest of the trilogy and continuing with the rest of Joe's books. I'm a high fantasy girl, (don't do 'romantasy' lol) so G.R.R.M and Tolkien are my favourite authors for Fantasy, but I can definitely see Joe being in that group if his books continue to improve upon his first novel. He's a great writer and has intriguing characters, good old British humor, and I can't wait to see what's next! Next, I really need to get on to Robin Hobb's books!!! Wish I could freeze time so I had more time to read XD

This whole video made me so happy because First Law is my favorite world/ fantasy series of all time and I just love hearing your thoughts on everyone!!

This makes me so excited to start Age of Madness! I love Joe Abercrombie! The humor in his books are my absolute favorite!!

Hahaha ok this has 100% convinced me to continue with the series 😅

I thought that the little hatred series was even better than the first. Def team Glokta (and then Savine) but I REALLY loved Orso especially by the end. He has a great arc. Also some of the aspects you’re talking about remind me of the Prince in Ever After, when she’s like DUDE you have all the power to change so much and he’s like huh. Yeah. Haha

Elle, please review the next two books just like you did in this video. These whole trilogy is an emotional roller coaster like the first book. I'm so glad you liked it.

I would recommend anyone who likes Abercrombie, to read David Gemmell. He writes probably the best heroic fantasy and was arguably the author that was grimdark before grimdark...proto-grimdark maybe. Short and to the point books that are a great palette cleanser between books of longer series.

I just started the Blade Itself on audiobook and I’ve so far not been disappointed. Hope to get all of the First Law books done this year.

I just read A Little Hatred in Dec. I'll be reading Trouble with Peace this month. I freakin love the new characters! Ricke and Savine and Crown Prince Orso are such good additions to this series. I feel like Orso is gonna be a piece of crap the whole time. Lol

My first thought at the title was Abercrombie & Fitch were coming out with a book about clothes.

Abercrombie is my favorite author. I just love the way he writes and thus book and series so many surprises and moments ❤️✨🌹🌹✨❤️❤️✨🌹📙📖📖📙🌹🌹✨💕📚📚💕❤️🌹🌹🌹✨💕💕❤️🌹📙📙📙📖📖📖🌹✨❤️📚📚📚❤️✨🌹🌹🌹🌹❤️❤️✨🌹📙📙📖📖📖📖🌹✨❤️💕💕📚📚💕❤️🌹🌹✨❤❤❤

I loved First Law, and have been looking forward to getting to this. Did you read the standalones? It's not clear from your retrospective. Also, 'rootable' has a very specific meaning, down here in Oceania.😂

The Trouble with Peace blew my mind, I hope you have as much of a great time with it as I did! 😅

your dog is so cute

The thing with these BookTube shows is that sometimes they're better that the book they're critiquing. That's not a bad thing. Life is beautiful. Thank you.

“The Young Lemon!”

To me Sevine and Orso were equally despisable

Did you read the Heroes and Red Country?

Do I have to read the standalones before the second trilogy? I dislikes best served cold and it put me off the other 2.

i found his books just so brutal... couldn't finish...

A Little Hatred is a disappointment BUT, it gets better and there is an excellent second and third book. I like Orso. He's a similar character to Jaime Lannister IMO. Likeable arsehole.

I feel like I’m the only person who didn’t love The First Law trilogy. I found almost every character completely unlikable. I was actively rooting against most of them. I couldn’t stand Glotka and how he always managed to come out on top. And overall, I felt like the characters were poorly developed. The story didn’t quite work for me either. And this is a tiny nitpick, but Jezel saying “err” or “erm” every other sentence drove me crazy. Lol. I wanted to love it but it just left me flat. I didn’t hate it, but I just didn’t get all the love for it either. I found it pretty mediocre overall.

So...Orso is Trump.

I'm having trouble with age of madness. I love first law but age of madness is basically the same thing all over again with gazillion characters with gazillion plot lines and yet no plot