- Quests (Expeditions), Fiction, Soldiers, Revenge
With her cowardly step father for company, Shy South journeys into the lawless Far Country, reckoning with the Ghosts and being forced into an alliance with the infamous soldier of fortune Nicomo Cosca, with one purpose in mind: to get her family back.
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Classical in form, grave, plot-driven and bleak.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- warmbleak
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Joe Abercrombie
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 464
- Publisher
- Orbit, Wydawnictwo Mag, Gollancz
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- Polish, English
- ISBN
- 9780575095830
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Joseph Edward Abercrombie is a British fantasy writer and film editor. He is the author of The First Law trilogy, as well as other fantasy books in the same setting and a trilogy of young adult novels. His novel Half a King won the 2015 Locus Award for best young adult book. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Abercrombie
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