The basic premise of this book is simple. Although you can read this book with no knowledge of the previous trilogy, the story does feature many references and characters from the first three books. 'Abercrombie has written the finest epic fantasy trilogy in recent memory. Joe Abercrombie is a freelance film editor, working mostly on documentaries and live music events for bands from Coldplay to Iron Maiden. Best Served Cold is the first of three stand-alone novels within the First Law universe. BEST SERVED COLD? Modern fantasy doesn't get much hotter than this.' - Dave Bradley, SFX 'Abercrombie is both fiendishly inventive and solidly convincing, especially when sprinkling his appallingly vivid combat scenes with humor so dark that it's almost ultraviolet.' - Publishers Weekly 'Joe Abercrombie takes the grand tradition of high fantasy literature and drags it down into the gutter, in the best possible way.' - Time Recovering from her massive injuries and mourning her murdered brother, Monza vows vengeance on Orso and half a dozen of his accomplices. Whatever the cost, seven men must die.ĭuke Orso imagines that he can become king by ending the civil wars that have devastated Styria, but he errs by trying to kill his overly popular general, mercenary Monza Murcatto.

Betrayed and left for dead, Murcatto's reward is a broken body and a burning hunger for vengeance. Great review of a great book What really drives this for me is the excellent cast. Abercrombie isn’t Lord Grimdark without good reason. Her victories have made her popular - a shade too popular for her employer's taste. Overall, Best Served Cold is a marvelous book, filled with clever battlefield philosophy one-liners and powerful visual images, but mostly with severed limbs and crushed skulls. Urn:oclc:798635353 Republisher_date 20140927100353 Republisher_operator Scandate 20140926024507 Scanner may be hell, but for Monza Murcatto, a solider of considerable fortune it's a damn good way of making money too. Urn:lcp:bestservedcold00aber:epub:ba2566ab-1ea8-4007-8fec-8e9e139cc653 Extramarc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PZ) Foldoutcount 0 Identifier bestservedcold00aber Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t97689k0w Invoice 11 Isbn 9780316044967Ġ316044962 Lccn 2009021701 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.6 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Openlibrary OL23392612M Openlibrary_edition Shame this version wasnt available first. Which character as performed by Steven Pacey was your favorite All of them.

9 people found this helpful Overall Performance Story lowfat 01-26-13 11ty times better than the Michael Page version. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:49:01 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA1124320 Boxid_2 CH120201 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition 1st North American ed. And I honestly think Joe Abercrombie gets better with every book. Best Served Cold is Abercrombies new standalone novel set in the world of his First Law Trilogy.

Joe abercrombie best served cold review