Red Country: Book Review
I just finished reading Red Country by Joe Abercrombie. This is the ninth novel of Abercrombie's that I have read, leaving only the Sharp Ends collection remaining. And I'm not motivated to go to that one, so we'll see when that happens. This book is inspired by Westerns. The premise is quite simple: Shy South returns home to find that her younger siblings have been kidnapped, their caretaken killed. So, she sets out with her cowardly stepfather to track down the man responsible. The largest appeal here is the character cameos, which I cannot mention without spoilers. This book is definitely my least favorite of the nine that I have read. I found the characters to be less interesting except for a few, and the plot and setting did not compensate to my liking. Additionally, my reading experience was rather split. I was rather detached from everything in the beginning, but I actually grew to like everything as the story continued. Despite the low ratings for Abercrombie, I sti...