Rather, yes. Serve cold is a revenge novel, dirty revenge, unhealthy, hard. It is very, very far from the fantasy novel where honor is in the foreground. Here, it's every man for himself and everything for profit.
It's war in Styria, as usual in fact. Murcatto Monza is a famous young woman at the head of an army of mercenaries lawless. Unfriendly and asocial, it is however very popular with the people. But his ever-growing popularity is not to the taste of everyone and Monza will end up being betrayed by his employer, Duke Orso, who sees her as a potential successor. From the first lines, the tone is set and, in just a few moments, Monza's life changes dramatically. His brother, the center of his universe, is killed while she is seriously injured and thrown from the top of a mountain. Alone in the world and left for dead, saved at the corpse of his brother and miraculously patched, Monza swears revenge of the seven men it considers responsible.
Having chosen the difficult targets, Monza recruits a beautiful bastards to help him in his task. Surprisingly, and despite the fact they are all without exception wholesale sociopaths, you find yourself more or less attach to each of them. This is due to the talent of Joe Abercrombie working thoroughly personality all his characters and makes us discover all facets.
The fine team will therefore pass through and down a country at war to regain turn each of those responsible for the death of Benna. But as I said, the honor does not belong in this story. Here, they are fighting in the brothels, it poisons we torture and mass murder does not bother anyone, any more than collateral damage. This book is definitely not to put all hands, the narrative alternating between verbal jousting could not be more explicit and somewhat disgusting bloody fighting.
The rate given is that early monitoring throughout the novel, the action is everywhere and you can not see the pages turning. I finally enjoyed Serve cold, mainly for its colorful characters and frantic pace, even if the end left me on my hunger ....
So I want to thank again and Bragelonne Goodreads for this exceptional gift, which not only made me have a good time and greatly embellished my library but is also autographed by the author!
