LAST ARGUMENT OF KINGS: THE FIRST LAW TRILOGY BOOK 3

2md read was probably even more better than my first one , probably because I noticed things , didn't note in my first read , or because I knew things this time that I hadn't the last timeWHAT I LIKEDThis is a character driven book , which blurs the line between what's good and what's evil , the ambiguity of the characters is further supported with a well layered story , that is filled with subtlety and intrigue and hidden smartly behind many foreshadowing moments . So much so that the first two books may well feel sort of meaningless but this books makes it all make sense like pieces of a completed jigsaw puzzle .The book is filled with action sequences and there are countless times you feel as a reader that the story has reached it's climax and a fitting , satisfactory conclusion only to then realise there's still about a few hundred pages left .The humor is dark , the action crisp , and the plot full of jaw dropping surprises and reveal . Honestly it's my favourite read of all time

It is a big book but has a great spine which won't break , it doesn't look brand new though.

Awesome book with awesome characters. Go for this series not for the plot but the characters

What a great Trilogy and great characters with fantastic dialogues

The book seemed like an old stock which had not been kept very well. Lots of scruffy marks and fading at places on the hard cover.

The media could not be loaded. Book was little bit of damaged and didn't get bookmark with it..

This book doesn't give you a satisfying end. The characters keep getting stranger and stranger, the effort that was taken to build them in book 1 and explored slightly on book 2 just comes to nothing in book 3. Only Glokta perhaps has a satisfying arc and maybe that's what this book is about. Didn't do it for me.

This trilogy is amazing and really worth reading, even though it starts slowly. If you read the first and/or the second book and you are wandering if it is worth to get the third one, stop thinking and buy it straight. It is certainly among the best fantasy books I've read.

Book showed up in good condition. No damage. Great series.

Fun read with a grim grin.

We start off relatively soon after the events of the second book. West and Dogman are still in the North but they have Bethod on the run. Bayaz, Jezal, Ferro and Logan have newly arrived back to Adua while Glokta is threatening and bribing people as the ailing King is now heirless. At the same time whispers of a Gurkish invasion are starting to occur.I still don't really know how the author does it. All the characters are pretty horrible people, OK Dogman is still cool, and Jezal has grown on me immensely but still. Saying this I absolutely love them all and want them to succeed no matter how bad and deep they descent. You feel Logan's weariness but in this book especially you realize how much he has been lying to himself and that everybody was right about him. Ferro feels a few tinges of regret but still doubles down on her vengeance. Glokta just keeps hobbling along doing Glokta things. Jezal has grown but at heart is still a coward and caves at the slightest pressure. Dogman and West are definitely doing the right thing but are getting nowhere. And Bayaz, well let's just say he's absolutely perfect for this book and series.The action ramps up in this book but it is never sacrificed to plot and character development. Things get dark, and we do find out about a lot of stuff, particularly in relation to Bayaz and the distant past, but as usual most of the main characters don't really care. They continue to be involved in their petty, and sometimes not so petty, concerns.I also loved that there were quite a few chapters wrapping things up. I notice in a lot of books now, even big series, can just end quite abruptly. Here we follow up with all our characters, most get a superficially happy end, but none actually do really and there are still a lot of things in the air and unknown but it was still a very satisfying end to the series. Now the dilemma is whether to re-read the standalones again or move on to the sequel series which I had originally planned. Not a bad problem though :)

Say one thing about Joe, he’s the man himself! This trilogy was a journey where I enjoyed everything in it, the characters, the twist, the story itself.