![]() ![]() Joe Abercrombie’s debut novel really was as good as everyone had claimed, perhaps it would not have topped The Lies of Locke Lamora, but it would have come darn close. ![]() My first response was to say, “Hey those are pretty nifty covers!†and then my second was to knock myself atop the head for being so foolish to have missed this novel when it was first released. There’s no easy answer to that question, but to remedy it, I hastened to pick up both The Blade Itself and its sequel, Before They Are Hanged. How could it be that a novel, which many hail as the debut of the year (even over Lynch’s effort) could be released and I was completely unaware of it for almost an entire year? So, it was with much surprise and trepidation that I entered into Joe Abercrombie’s The Blade Itself the first novel of a trilogy entitled The First Law. ![]() I proudly named Scott Lynch’s The Lies of Locke Lamora as not only the Fantasy debut of the year, but also my Fantasy novel of the year. It’s a year that has come up a lot since the creation of A Dribble of Ink and the main reason for this is all the fantastic debut novels that found their way into the hands of readers that year. Publisher: McArthur & Co / Orion Con Trad By Aidan Moher June 30th, 2007 The Blade Itself ![]()
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