Best Served Cold (First Law World #4) - First Law World - Book 04

Joe Abercrombie

Gollancz

2009

672 páginas

22h 24m

ISBN-10: B002U3CCUQ

Springtime in Styria. And that means war. Springtime in Styria. And that means revenge.

There have been nineteen years of blood. The ruthless Grand Duke Orso is locked in a vicious struggle with the squabbling League of Eight, and between them they have bled the land white. While armies march, heads roll and cities burn, behind the scenes bankers, priests and older, darker powers play a deadly game to choose who will be king.

War may be hell but for Monza Murcatto, the Snake of Talins, the most feared and famous mercenary in Duke Orso's employ, it's a damn good way of making money too. Her victories have made her popular - a shade too popular for her employer's taste. Betrayed, thrown down a mountain and left for dead, Murcatto's reward is a broken body and a burning hunger for vengeance. Whatever the cost, seven men must die.

Her allies include Styria's least reliable drunkard, Styria's most treacherous poisoner, a mass-murderer obsessed with numbers and a Northman who just wants to do the right thing. Her enemies number the better half of the nation. And that's all before the most dangerous man in the world is dispatched to hunt her down and finish the job Duke Orso started...

Springtime in Styria. And that means revenge.

Resenhas (4)

4 (Muito bom)

Um romance noir de fantasia, cheio de violência,niilista e amoralidade de mercenários medievais.

Um excelente livro que narra uma saga de vingança. A trama tem muitas reviravoltas e se torna cada vez mais imprevisível à medida que a história avança. Os personagens são muito bem construídos e bem variados, cada personagen possui conflitos e se transforma durante a história. O livro mistura os temas da literatura noir contemporânea com um cenário de fantasia medieval realista e sombria. Recomendo o livro para os fãs de Game of Thrones, apenas ressaltando que o livro tem cenas bem gráficas de sexo e violência. Muito bom!