The Wisdom of Crowds

This one closes out the Age Of Madness trilogy. Not the best jumping on place for new readers, but those who have been on the ride so far will be familiar with Abercrombie's oh so readable cocktail of brutal violence, political intrigue and dark humour, allied here to some of his best character work. But....

It's more than a bit annoying that one lovely dangling plot line that I'd been expecting to come into play at the climax is parcelled off to the epilogue and used as bait for what I presume is the next trilogy in the world of the First Law. I've invested 1000+ pages in reading this(and don't get me wrong I had fun along the way) and then for the climax of the trilogy to be “here's some stuff that's going to happen in some books I haven't written yet” feels a bit off to me. I suppose that means more books so I won't grumble too hard, but yeah felt a bit cheated when I got to the last page.