Fantasy as a literary genre always finds the best guardians of each era so that the epic, the allegorical among exuberant approaches continue to recreate new worlds for readers eager for great projections towards new worlds.
We are in the age of veterans George RR Martin o Terry Pratchett, of course, but also new and big ones like Patrick Rothfuss, Brandon Sanderson o Joe abercrombie.
Each one carries his own rhythm and composes his works with that will, already atavistic in the genre, to build sagas towards the vision of new worlds and great epics of practically Homeric inspiration.
In the case of Abercrombie, his sagas and loose works are intertwined with practically all of them, forming a fascinating union of worlds from those wormholes that the specialists of the most prospective fantastic know how to build as connections that feed to enrich the worlds of the readers but they also serve as independent works in many cases for those who only pass through those places to take a look and end up staying ...
Fantasy for all ages with a special appeal for young readers. A safe bet that dazzles with its brilliant imagination and the most exquisite use of the old balances between good and evil, between white magic and black magic, between future reflections and impossible worlds.
Top 3 Recommended Joe Abercrombie Novels
The voice of swords
Abercrombie's emergence into the epic fantasy genre through the front door. A presentation of new characters for a saga of The First Law which is already emblematic for all fans of this literature full of imagination and action.
In more than 15 years (and those that remain to this history made vital work), the new worlds of the Union spread like an unstoppable creative big bang: Inquisitor Glokta, turned into a crippled cynic after his passage through the prisons of the enemies of the Union, he is now an effective torturer capable of extracting information from anyone.
In turn, Captain Jezal dan Luthar has done nothing else in his life than to fleece his friends playing cards and dream of the glory of winning the fencing contest. But a war is brewing, and in the battlefields of the North the fighting is governed by much bloodier rules ... Logen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian with a bloody past, has just lost his friends and is determined to abandon his lands and head to the South, but the spirits warn him that a Wizard of the Old Times is looking for him ... His stories are intertwined in a black fantasy full of action and memorable characters.
Half king
A new beginning of the saga. An awakening of the Broken Sea trilogy that left the author as one of his most exquisite and close works for any reader to let himself be lost by the fantastic with the roots of a well recognizable action of longings, losses, betrayals and revenge staged in worlds already openly exposed in the light of Abercrombie's great fantasies.
Yarvi could pass for that character punished by fate in any kind of novel. It is not that he was fortunate in his birth and points to a secondary role in the historical book of his monarchical family. But the throne is placed in his sick hands when his family is assassinated. And with his limitations, Yarvi must face the regal mission of ruling a world that can slip out of his hands, unless he uses everything he has gained in a time that he could not give himself to swords and yes to books.
A little hate
No doubt the saga of the First Law will continue with new novels, that is planned. The funny thing is that in the meantime, Abercrombie launches into a new series that also takes the First Law universe as its starting point.
It is something like getting down to work with a messianic will, unfolding a fabric of stories onto a gigantic canvas that Abercrombie's great readers enjoy to the fullest. Especially with that game of comings and goings, of entrances and exits of the magical doors (or the wormholes mentioned above), to make the reader feel, introduced into these worlds, that they face the story with all the background. Thus, that reader can feel like a new omniscient narrator who only awaits the future of the characters to whom he himself seems to confer free will towards the middle and outcomes of the story.
This new start will compose the saga "The Age of Madness" and will serve to divide in some way the essential forces that ruled the Circle of the World. If we wanted to find an analogy with our world, this would be the equivalent of telling a story just started the industrial revolution or, why not, the current communication revolution. Of course, the warlike character confers that most epic and transcendent point in the everlasting struggle between good and evil. We accompany Leo dan Brock and Isern-i-Phail and we immerse ourselves in a world full of magic, violence, divination and the ambitions of kings capable of destroying everything.
