And there is the rolling point of view Abercrombie does so well – when the protagonist of one section merges seamlessly into the protagonist of the next. The text is clean and easy to read and, impressively, the use of each character’s ‘voice’ is not just limited to their speech but to the entirety of the text when it is their turn on the page. There are flawed characters aplenty and a biting takedown both of capitalism and the consequences of revolution. There is a new generation of characters, some of their parents, and references back to what had happened in the past. The book takes the world as it was at the end of the last series, adds a few decades and some coal, and builds on it. I’m certain you can’t miss a book you haven’t read but that was precisely the feeling I had within a few pages of A Little Hatred.
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