Ninjay rated Best Served Cold: 4 stars
Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie
There have been nineteen years of blood. The ruthless Grand Duke Orso is locked in a vicious struggle with the …
It's always fun learning to love absolute assholes. And what assholes this book provides, every single important character ranges from unpleasant to completely reprehensible. The characters don't really better themselves (for now at least) but what we see is smart worldbuilding that explains the ways in which the characters were guided and pressured into their roles, if only to survive.
Sure, sometimes the book feels a bit like an unorganised prologue, the stories not really intertwining until the end. It is striking however, how these loose threads of history, characters and politics are already potent enough to stand on their own. And we haven't even started tugging at these threads yet.
