Reddit reviews Half a King (Shattered Sea Book 1)
We found 8 Reddit comments about Half a King (Shattered Sea Book 1). Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
Reddit reviews Half a King (Shattered Sea Book 1)We found 8 Reddit comments about Half a King (Shattered Sea Book 1). Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison.
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North.
Wool by Hugh Howey.
Half a King by Joe Abercrombie.
Read through the "Look Inside" previews to see if any of these is right for you.
Red Rising by Pierce Brown. SF.
Wool by Hugh Howey. Post-Apoc.
Half a King by Joe Abercrombie. YA Fantasy.
The Remaining by DJ Molles. Horror/Military Thriller.
I am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes. Thriller.
If he likes fantasy type settings consider Half a King by Joe Abercrombie (it's the first book in a finished YA trilogy).
I'm currently speed reading through the third book right now, and I find it pretty good (though the romance is cringy as hell), and I generally hate YA books. The rest of what he writes is a lot more gritty and not really appropriate for kids though.
>able to engage my sympathies for some utterly unsympathetic characters
Definitely try Mark Lawrence then.
As for Half a King, it's YA, and it hits a lot of points that seem to come up here a lot (disabled MC, boy in a traditionally feminine role, averting standard fantasy setting, fantasy without magic), but I read the ARC and I was not impressed. Poorly fleshed out character motivations that could have been fixed with a couple throwaway lines, the Big Twists were really freaking obvious from the instant the character was introduced each time, and too much whining from the MC for my tastes. Consistently high writing quality though.
I see that you're potentially a Joe Abercrombie fan...I think we would both like a copy of Half a King (Shattered Sea Book 1), which is the first book in a new-ish series also by Joe Abercrombie.
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I'm really failing at this whole thing.
I have three books I'm currently in an on hold status on:
Those would be my suggestions for this month. I have read The Girl on the Train and have neutral feelings on it.
In YA, there's Half a King and The Winner's Curse, both with seemingly no magic. They're the first books in unfinished series though.