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Sharp Ends

Stories from the World of the First Law

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Sharp Ends

By: Joe Abercrombie
Narrated by: Steven Pacey
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Sharp Ends is the ultimate collection of award-winning tales and exclusive new short stories from the master of grimdark fantasy, Joe Abercrombie.

Violence explodes, treachery abounds, and the words are as deadly as the weapons in this rogue's gallery of sideshows, backstories, and sharp endings from the world of the First Law.

The Union army may be full of bastards, but there's only one who thinks he can save the day single-handed when the Gurkish come calling: the incomparable Colonel Sand dan Glokta.

Curnden Craw and his dozen are out to recover a mysterious item from beyond the Crinna. Only one small problem: No one seems to know what the item is.

Shevedieh, the self-styled best thief in Styria, lurches from disaster to catastrophe alongside her best friend and greatest enemy, Javre, Lioness of Hoskopp.

And after years of bloodshed, idealistic chieftain Bethod is desperate to bring peace to the North. There's only one obstacle left - his own lunatic champion, the most feared man in the North: the Bloody-Nine….

For more from Joe Abercrombie, check out:

The First Law Trilogy

The Blade Itself

Before They Are Hanged

Last Argument of Kings

Standalone Novels in the First Law World

Best Served Cold

The Heroes

Red Country

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Engaging Short Stories • Fascinating Character Backstories • Humorous Dialogue • Rich World-building • Perfect Voice Acting
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Seems like most people are thrilled with this but for me this is not what Joe Abercrombie is about. I love the epic flavour of The First Law books (journey/battle/journey/battle) with the great character portrayal and development throughout the tale.

So I suppose the stories are OK, and OK for Joe Abercrombie equates with good for most other authors. I just wanted more.

Left wanting more

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Second to none performance and 99% of the book was outstanding. But the very end with nine fingers was a bridge too far. Can’t believe the Logan at the end of this book became the Logan in the series.

Outstanding but Very End not good

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Neither Joe Abercrombie nor Steven Pacey fail to deliver. Surprised there's not a series yet.

Highly Recommend

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Really cool to get some minor backstory and new stories involving the characters from the first 6 books.

Fun

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I forgot how much I liked Joe Abercrombie. Constantly found my self laughing out loud and fully engrossed.

As good as it gets

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Theshort stoeies include so many old characters (and some new ones) that will delight fans of the world Abercrombie has created.

a gem for abercrombie fans

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Joe Abercrombie is an absolute genius. Out of the 200+ books in my audible library and this book - along with the others in the first law series are my favorite.

Absolutely incredible

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Awesome & funny short stories until halfway through Abercrombie started narrating then it was so bad I stopped listening…ugh

Stick to writing Joe

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love to see the old favorites in some new scenes, and how they all end up in the same scene

Old characters, new stories

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I thought I would be disappointed with these short stories that went back in time before the other books but It was lovely to get a little more my favorite characters and the narration was on point as usual.

Joe and Pacey never disappoint

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