![]() ![]() The first hints of advances in technology and the coming of industrialisation indicated in Red Country having taken hold and changed the country in the fifteen years since those events, those who worked the land and the fields have found themselves turned off their farms and forced to move to the cities to work the new factories, conditions harsh and positions poorly paid. ![]() The decision made by Abercrombie with the support of his publisher that the first draft of Age of Madness trilogy should be written in its entirety before the first volume was revised for publication, ensuring the trilogy should have an unbroken release schedule and a coherent vision and structure, that investment is apparent for while his novels are usually packed with incident and character, even by those standards there is a great deal happening in A Little Hatred. It’s been four years since Joe Abercrombie last published a novel, Half a War, the concluding volume of his Shattered Sea trilogy, and other than the short story collection Sharp Ends seven since he last visited the realms of the First Law with Red Country, the conclusion of the Great Leveller trilogy, a world to which he now returns, time that has not been wasted for A Little Hatred goes a very long way. ![]()
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