The Devils

It’s a fable, but told from the perspective of the “monsters” my only detraction is that its view on life is too cynical, that doing the right thing is such a colossal surprise that you can’t expect it ever to happen.

This rating hurt as Joe Abercrombie is one of my favorite authors. This one just seemed a bit off. It felt rushed from one fight scene to another. I really wish there was a bit more character development.

The story is of the Devils who are basically prisoners of the church who are used for special assignments

This assignment is to bring a young street urchin who finds out she s the daughter of the empress who was killed by her sister. The Devils need to bring her to the serpent throne to take her rightful place on the throne. But first she needs to be on the lookout for her cousins the Dukes who also want to take over the throne.

The last 25% of the book was really quite good but the leading 75% was kind of a mess. It just seemed like there really was no flow.

The humor is there is Joe Abercrombie fashion. I truly love that about the book but the world building was not there and the characters seemed a bit flat.

I believe i read this is the first in the series and I will read the next book when it comes out. So it was not all that bad