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# Sharp Ends: Stories from the World of the First Law

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Short stories.
  

*by T***Y on Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2022*

It is a book. I read it. I prefer the books vs short stories but Abercrombie is a great writer within the genre.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Some Wheat, some Chaff
  

*by J***Y on Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2020*

At it's best, this book is a fun interweaving of short stories into the fabric of Abercrombie's First Law (and "World of...") novels, which I'd recommend reading through The Heroes before tackling this.  Some seem to have been written to give Joe some pre-history on some of his characters, while others let us see events we've already seen through new eyes.  Some of these stories involve the same repeating set of characters in various short adventures, some the characters from the other books in little vignettes, and some are just set in the same world but don't intersect the books very much.I'd rate two-thirds of the stories (especially the ones with the thief and the warrior-priestess) as good to excellent.  The remaining third are just okay.  There's a fair amount of humor in most of these stories, but some are just grimdark and one, in particular (the courtesan in the Best Served Cold intersection) is just sad, sad, sad.I think that this is a must-read for Abercrombie fans, but don't expect too much.  Some of these stories were never intended to be seriously published (appearing in fanzines and the like) and it shows.  The best of them, though, are as good as Abercrombie gets.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Say One Thing for Joe Abercrombie...
  

*by R***N on Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2016*

…say he’s a sharp end.Joe Abercrombie, the self-styled “Lord Grimdark” took the fantasy world by storm in the mid-2000s with his First Law trilogy. Part epic fantasy, part satirical deconstruction of Lord of the Rings, and part black comedy, the trilogy introduced us to Abercrombie’s snarky, endearing, and at times utterly horrific menagerie of characters. It will make you laugh, it will make you blanch, and in the end it will leave you with complete emotional exhaustion.The term “grimdark” is a tricky phrase. It means different things to different people. Abercrombie writes a dark world, true, but the moments of genuine beauty and the goodness that human beings are capable of shine through that much brighter for all the muck and grit that covers things. The Circle of the World is a place where being a good man or woman is very hard. But people still try. Sometimes they fair, sometimes they succeed, but the struggle is what makes you root for them. Words like “good” and “evil” often have no place as value judgments in Abercrombie’s world. To paraphrase Logen Ninefingers, sometimes it’s just a matter of where you’re standing.In addition to the First Law trilogy, Abercrombie wrote three stand-alone novels set in the same world, bringing his unique Tolkien-meets-Tarantino flavor to the revenge story, war story, and frontier western genres. Sharp Ends is a collection of short stories that’s pans across his entire First Law timeline, the first coming before the beginning of The Blade Itself, and the last taking place after the end of Red Country. We see some old familiar faces, and are introduced to some new ones as well. These stories have the same combination of comedy, tragedy, violence, and brutality that makes Abercrombie’s other work so brilliant. The cast of characters is diverse, and real in such a profound way that I honestly don’t know how he manages to keep pumping them out.Sharp Ends is the best fantasy collection that I’ve read since George R.R. Martin’s cross-genre anthology, Rogues (which also featured Abercrombie’s Nebula Award winning story, Tough Times All Over). In addition to Tough Times All Over I also have to praise A Beautiful Bastard, Made a Monster, and Some Desperado, though all of these stories are worth the price, and all of them have their own sharp ends…

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