The Heroes by Joe AbercrombieMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This book is what would happen if you combined the battle perspective of "Killer Angles" with the grit of game of thrones and the dark view on war in 7 Samurai. The meaningless of the whole thing is played out with humanizing and dehumanizing scenes of two opposing armies fighting over some high ground between their respective lands. Many different arcs and stories intertwine to bring out the true brutality of what happens when armies collide. The harshness against the wounded and prisoners, the politics between factions on your own side, and the difference between officers and the grunts. The level of butchery accepted by the leaders takes any romance out of the whole thing.
As with the other books in this series, I thoroughly enjoyed this and the message that war is horrible and bullshit, is never a bad one in a fantasy series :D
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