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Tsundoku, on 01 December 2025 - 11:03 AM, said:

Reading my first Joe Abercrombie "The Devils". Quite a fun read so far. Would make a good mini-series.
I keep seeing Anya Taylor-Joy as Sunny and Steven Lang as Jakob. Maybe Diego Luna as Diaz.

Easily front runner for my favorite read of the year. It's just such a great fun book that hits every note i generally look for... great engaging characters, fast pace, excellent action, interesting magic, evil villains, sticks the ending.

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QuickTidal, on 01 December 2025 - 12:44 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 25 November 2025 - 12:38 PM, said:

I finally decided (after years of it sitting on my digital ToReadPile) to give RED RISING a chance...

Finished on Sunday night. Fastest I've read a book in like 2 years...safe to say I not only liked it, I'm IN.
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So yeah, thanks again all. I loved this book and I can't wait to continue the series. I'm grabbing GOLDEN SON from the library tonight on my way home and starting it immediately.

Welcome to the party my goodman. It is a frikkin ride.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Abyss, on 01 December 2025 - 03:51 PM, said:

Easily front runner for my favorite read of the year. It's just such a great fun book that hits every note i generally look for... great engaging characters, fast pace, excellent action, interesting magic, evil villains

Evil villains? Thought that was one of your main objections to The Priory of the Orange Tree?

One section of A Day of Fallen Night tries to reframe them as embodiments of "chaos" rather than "evil"---though If they were truly chaos incarnate, they wouldn't conform so consistently to our common conceptions of "evil".

Granted the old "Tiamat = archetypal chaos" is maybe a bit too redolent of Jung, Campbell, and Jordan Peterson (guess the next name in that devolving sequence might as well be... IDK, Nick Fuentes?) for my taste...

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