Apart from the fact that the book is set in a fictional world Red Country doesn't contain much in the way of fantasy elements. So on to Red Country itself which takes a low fantasy setting and adds to this a slight flavour of the wild west, all wrapped in a gritty, unrelenting realism and a trace of heroic fantasy. I can finally read the work of an author who attended the same school as my two younger brothers (around the same time too). 35.I've bought a few Abercrombie novels over the past few years, partly due to the huge amount of positive feedback his work attracts but also as he is a fellow Lancastrian, hailing from the same fine city as I.ĭue to the sheer volume of review copies I receive I've yet to have time to actually read any of his work and so getting Red Country from those lovely people at Gollancz was a god-send. 9780575095847 Red Country 35.2000 NZD InStock /shop/books /shop/books/fiction /shop/books/fiction/science-fiction-fantasy They burned her home. Even worse, it will force them into alliance with Nicomo Cosca, infamous soldier of fortune, and his feckless lawyer Temple, two men no one should ever have to trust.

Their journey will take them across the barren plains to a frontier town gripped by gold fever, through feud, duel and massacre, high into the unmapped mountains to a reckoning with the Ghosts. But it turns out Lamb's buried a bloody past of his own, and out in the lawless Far Country, the past never stays buried. She sets off in pursuit with only a pair of oxen and her cowardly old stepfather Lamb for company. Shy South hoped to bury her bloody past and ride away smiling, but she'll have to sharpen up some bad old ways to get her family back, and she's not a woman to flinch from what needs doing.

But it turns out Lamb's buried a bloody past of his own, and out in the lawless Far Country, the.

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