![]() ![]() I don't think there is a man behind the revolutionaries (Khalul is wounded or dead, Zacharus is in the Empire, Glokta is loathed). Joe Abercrombie has created something truly amazing and I can't wait for the next book The Bookbeard's Blog I thoroughly enjoyed this new addition to the Abercrombie canon - lots of action as always, with a wry humour and plenty of intrigue Ramblingmads Brutal, grim, and often so very compelling, The Trouble with Peace is a totally. I think Broad is owl because of the glasses. ![]() Joe's set up Orso only to knock him down. Nicholas II and Louis XVI were foolish and ineffectual. I'm afraid that the parallels with the French and Russian revolutions extend to the fate of the king. I see many similarities between him, Louis XVI and Nicholas Romanov: well-intentioned ineffectual kings, considered half-foreigners by their subjects because of their mother's origins, whose fathers died young bequeathing them troubled realms beyond the point of repair, and that didn't really understand the scope of the tide that was coming. I'm with you here, but I'm really fearful about Orso's fate. Therefore, I'd assume that whoever "the owl" is will be the leader of the revolutionaries either Pike, or whoever is their true leader (be it Glokta, Khalul, Zacharus.). Joe has stated that the third book will include "flavours of the French and Russian revolutions". ![]() From the three previous instances (wolf eating sun, lion eating wolf, lamb eating lion) it seems that it means inflicting a heavy defeat in battle. ![]()
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