Really need to do some quick book reviews before I leave on Saturday, but this morning I got in three books from ILL (inter-library loan). One is Wireless, a short story collection by Charles Stross. The second is Hunter’s Moon, a debut for another John Constantine / Harry Dresden kind of smartass street magic-user. It’s a paperback, so we’ll see if the series prospers enough to crossover to hardcover at some point.
One book was fairly huge, and I was like “Man, what’s that?” Turns out is the new Joe Abercrombie book, Best Served Cold. Abercrombie wrote the recent First Law Trilogy, one of my favorite reads of the last several years. Really nice fantasy stuff.
Abercrombie apparently writes very quickly. I think the entire First Law Trilogy hit shelves in about a year and a half, and the final book came out in March of this year. Now he’s got an entire new, 600-page plus novel out six months after that. If he can keep the quality of the writing up, a guy who can put out a book every six months is pretty fabulous.
Best Served Cold takes place in the First Law universe, but in an area pretty much unexplored in the other books. I’ll check back in when I’ve finished reading it.
