A review by chromeorange
A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie
4.0
I loved this book. It's a high 4 and one of the books where the only reason I don't rate it a 5 is it's not exactly my type of fantasy. I would something with a bit more "fantastical" elements. Stuff like this is almost a different genre.
What's to complain about? The characters were multi-dimensional and all pretty interesting. There's definitely character development, too. Just those two things are far and beyond what most fantasy books succeed in.
Setting and plot are secondary. I may go further and say I wonder if the plot could have used a little more focus. This was more a story of individual characters than a "story." The big event that the book centered around for the second half was...a big event, but it wasn't really part of any larger story. This book is more like a series of not-very-related events that the characters find themselves in, how they deal with them, and whether they're changed by them (or not.)
What's to complain about? The characters were multi-dimensional and all pretty interesting. There's definitely character development, too. Just those two things are far and beyond what most fantasy books succeed in.
Setting and plot are secondary. I may go further and say I wonder if the plot could have used a little more focus. This was more a story of individual characters than a "story." The big event that the book centered around for the second half was...a big event, but it wasn't really part of any larger story. This book is more like a series of not-very-related events that the characters find themselves in, how they deal with them, and whether they're changed by them (or not.)