The Wisdom of Crowds

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Chaos. Fury. Destruction.

The Great Change is upon us...

Some say that to change the world you must first burn it down. Now that belief will be tested in the crucible of revolution: the Breakers and Burners have seized the levers of power, the smoke of riots has replaced the smog of industry, and all must submit to the wisdom of crowds.

With nothing left to lose, Citizen Brock is determined to become a new hero for the new age, while Citizeness Savine must turn her talents from profit to survival before she can claw her way to redemption. Orso will find that when the world is turned upside down, no one is lower than a monarch. And in the bloody North, Rikke and her fragile Protectorate are running out of allies... while Black Calder gathers his forces and plots his vengeance.

The banks have fallen, the sun of the …

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reviewed The Wisdom of Crowds by Joe Abercrombie

Liberté, égalité, fraternité!

4 stars

Imagine the French Revolution covertly instigated and conducted by a few influential figures of the establishment. With the sole aim of screwing other such people. Just to reinstall the monarchy in the end. A noble cause, perhaps. And a cunning plan. Quite naturally, things do not go as planned and take a turn for the worse. Things burn and people die in spectacular manner.

Surprisingly, the one who emerges as a complex character is Leo dan Brock. And that's it, as anything else in the book is predictable and happens exactly the way a reader had suspected since a certain prophecy in A Little Hatred. Still a great page turner.

Joe Abercrombie writes top contemporary fantasy, so do get The Age of Madness Series. You won't regret it.

reviewed The Wisdom of Crowds by Joe Abercrombie

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4 stars

Abercrombie finishes up his tale of transition from medieval to industrial age in a high fantasy setting by revisiting the Terror of the French Revolution. This one was bleak all the way through, admittedly an Abercrombie trademark.
Four stars, an entertaining read but in reflecting on this book I have some reservations. I get that Abercrombie's theme is 'the more things change, the more they stay the same' but it is starting to feel a little cyclical now when he sets his books in the part of his world he has used a lot. When I considered this book, I felt that the 3 he set elsewhere in his fantasy world were the ones I enjoyed more. Yes, the theme was still 'plus ca change', but at least I got something new out of it.
Still, its Abercrombie. If you are bought into his stuff then you are going to …

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