![]() ![]() ![]() Savine dan Glokta, daughter of the infamous Arch Lector Sand dan Glokta, is centre stage once more. In addition, the disruption caused by the Burners and the Breakers allows those outside Adua, such as the Gurkish and those in Starikland, to look for weakness that they could exploit. ![]() ![]() (but) To ensure that we benefit from them.” “Your Majesty, we are not here to set right all the world’s wrongs…. … for the trouble with peace is keeping it, once you’ve got it. Recently crowned King Orso the First, now the High King of the Union, tries to negotiate a near-impossible path which satisfies both factions. Their ex-Masters, the rich and over-privileged noblemen, struggle to deal with this sea-change, and much of the book reflects the tension between the revolutionaries and the factory owners. This has led to violence and revolution, as The Breakers and Burners attempt to gain control of the cities and the impoverished workforces therein. In A Little Hatred (reviewed by myself HERE and Rob Bedford HERE) we found that industrialisation had arrived in the Union. The book begins with an ironic comment about the weight of a crown and a joke about old men’s bladders… and so we can tell that Joe’s back with his latest, the second in The Age of Madness trilogy, where many of the characters we first encountered in Joe’s original trilogy ( The First Law) have given way to their descendants. ![]()
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