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Rereading Joe Abercrombie’s First Law Trilogy, Last Argument of Kings: “After the Rains” and “Answers”

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Joe Abercrombie First Law Trilogy Reread

A reread of Joe Abercrombie’s grimdark First Law fantasy trilogy on Tor.com.

Before They Are Hanged

Rereading Joe Abercrombie’s First Law Trilogy, Before They Are Hanged: “The Abode of Stones” and “Back to the Mud”

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Rereading Joe Abercrombie’s First Law Trilogy, Before They Are Hanged: “A Fitting Punishment”

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Rereading Joe Abercrombie’s First Law Trilogy, Before They Are Hanged: “Questions” and “Holding the Line”

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Rereading Joe Abercrombie’s First Law Trilogy, Before They Are Hanged: “To the Edge of the World” and “Before the Storm”

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Rereading Joe Abercrombie’s First Law Trilogy, Before They Are Hanged: “Coming Over” and “Cheap at the Price”

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Rereading Joe Abercrombie’s First Law Trilogy, Before They Are Hanged: “Cold Comfort” and “The High Places”

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Rereading Joe Abercrombie’s First Law Trilogy, Before They Are Hanged: “No Good for Each Other” and “The Hero’s Welcome”

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Rereading Joe Abercrombie’s First Law Trilogy, Before They Are Hanged: “Luck” and “Beneath the Ruins”

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Rereading Joe Abercrombie’s First Law Trilogy, Before They Are Hanged: “To the Last Man” and “Jewel of Cities”

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Rereading Joe Abercrombie’s First Law Trilogy, Before They Are Hanged: “Scars” and “Furious”

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Rereading Joe Abercrombie’s First Law Trilogy, Before They Are Hanged: “The Rest is Wasted Breath” and “A Matter of Time”

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Rereading Joe Abercrombie’s First Law Trilogy, Before They Are Hanged: “So This is Pain” and “One Step at a Time”

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Last Argument of Kings

Last Argument of Kings Joe Abercrombie

Rereading Joe Abercrombie’s First Law Trilogy, Last Argument of Kings: “After the Rains” and “Answers”

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Last Argument of Kings Joe Abercrombie

Rereading Joe Abercrombie’s First Law Trilogy, Last Argument of Kings: “Open the Box”, “Dark Paths”, and “Reckonings”

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Last Argument of Kings Joe Abercrombie

Rereading Joe Abercrombie’s First Law Trilogy, Last Argument of Kings: “Sacrifices”

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Last Argument of Kings Joe Abercrombie

Rereading Joe Abercrombie’s First Law Trilogy, Last Argument of Kings: “Questions” and “The Day of Judgement”

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Last Argument of Kings Joe Abercrombie

Rereading Joe Abercrombie’s First Law Trilogy, Last Argument of Kings: “Tomorrow’s Hero” and “Nightfall”

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Last Argument of Kings Joe Abercrombie

Rereading Joe Abercrombie’s First Law Trilogy, Last Argument of Kings: “Charity” and “Better Left Buried”

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Last Argument of Kings Joe Abercrombie

Rereading Joe Abercrombie’s First Law Trilogy, Last Argument of Kings: “Leadership” and “A Rock and a Hard Place”

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Last Argument of Kings Joe Abercrombie

Rereading Joe Abercrombie’s First Law Trilogy, Last Argument of Kings: “Greater Good” and “Skarling’s Chair”

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Last Argument of Kings Joe Abercrombie

Rereading Joe Abercrombie’s First Law Trilogy, Last Argument of Kings: “Authority” and “The Circle”

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Last Argument of Kings Joe Abercrombie

Rereading Joe Abercrombie’s First Law Trilogy, Last Argument of Kings: “The Number of the Dead” and “Leaves on the Water”

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Last Argument of Kings Joe Abercrombie

Rereading Joe Abercrombie’s First Law Trilogy, Last Argument of Kings: “Sweet Victory” and “Rude Awakenings”

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Last Argument of Kings Joe Abercrombie

Rereading Joe Abercrombie’s First Law Trilogy, Last Argument of Kings: “The Seventh Day” and “Too Many Masters”

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More Joe Abercrombie on Tor.com

Desperate Times Call for Desperados: Joe Abercrombie’s “Some Desperado”

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Joe Abercrombie Announces a New Trilogy of Books Coming in 2014

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Firsts In Fantasy: Joe Abercrombie’s The Blade Itself

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Firsts In Fantasy: Joe Abercrombie’s Best Served Cold

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The Blade Itself

The Blade Itself Joe Abercrombie

Rereading Joe Abercrombie’s First Law Trilogy, The Blade Itself: “The Bloody-Nine” and “The Tools We Have”

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The Blade Itself Joe Abercrombie

Rereading Joe Abercrombie’s First Law Trilogy, The Blade Itself: “Misery”

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The Blade Itself Joe Abercrombie

Rereading Joe Abercrombie’s First Law Trilogy, The Blade Itself: “Old Friends” and “Back to the Mud”

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The Blade Itself Joe Abercrombie

Rereading Joe Abercrombie’s First Law Trilogy, The Blade Itself: A Slight Derailment

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The Blade Itself Joe Abercrombie

Rereading Joe Abercrombie’s First Law Trilogy, The Blade Itself: “Each Man Worships Himself”

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The Blade Itself Joe Abercrombie

Rereading Joe Abercrombie’s First Law Trilogy, The Blade Itself: “Nobody’s Dog”

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The Blade Itself Joe Abercrombie

Rereading Joe Abercrombie’s First Law Trilogy, The Blade Itself: “The House of the Maker”

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The Blade Itself Joe Abercrombie

Rereading Joe Abercrombie’s First Law Trilogy, The Blade Itself: “The Ideal Audience”

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The Blade Itself Joe Abercrombie

Rereading Joe Abercrombie’s First Law Trilogy, The Blade Itself: “Never Bet Against a Magus”

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The Blade Itself Joe Abercrombie

Rereading Joe Abercrombie’s First Law Trilogy, The Blade Itself: “She Loves Me…Not” and “The Seed”

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The Blade Itself Joe Abercrombie

Rereading Joe Abercrombie’s First Law Trilogy, The Blade Itself: “The Remarkable Talents of Brother Longfoot” and “Her Kind Fight Everything”

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The Blade Itself Joe Abercrombie

Rereading Joe Abercrombie’s First Law Trilogy, The Blade Itself: “Dark Work” and “Words and Dust”

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Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

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