Half the World by Joe AbercrombieMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Thorn Bathu was breathed on in her crib by Mother War. At only 16, she knows how to handle ax and sword and carries the bones of her murdered father in a necklace around her neck....but life has a weird way of throwing off your expectations.
This book takes place right where the first book in the series left off, in this Viking like society by writer who so masterfully told the First Law Trilogy and the books which followed. While I didn't think it was as good as the first book, it introduced a number of new characters and has a more epic feel to it in scope. If you are expecting something as dark as his earlier books, you will be disappointing, but only slightly as this vicious world only barely holds punches. For me, it was also a breath of fresh air after the underwhelming attempt at complexity and under character development in the Malazan series.
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