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Question about First Law series (lemm.ee)

submitted 8 months ago by delitomatoes@lemm.ee to c/fantasy@lemmy.ml

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Hi, I am on a driving trip and downloaded a recommended books, "Best Served Cold" and then the reviews say read the original trilogy first. After several hours of "The Blade Itself" there is no sense of a plot or where the characters are going, they are just meeting up.

I understand that this is a common criticism of his early works. Should I finish the Blade Itself or go on to the sequel standalone novel? I got a bit of the sense of the world.

Incidentally, I loved "Project Hail Mary" and started "Three Body Problem", but the pronunciation of the chinese names turned me off, so I'll read the book instead.

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[–] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 8 months ago

I would have loved this had I read it 10, 15 years ago, but I was already sick and tired of grimdark when I read it, and ended up just being unsatisfied and depressed by the end. Truly awful people won, and the one redemption story arc ends in horror. Joy. If I want a story that uplifting, I'll just watch footage from Gaza.