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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Grey Bastardsdi Jonathan French
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This was so good! If you like your world-building imaginative and gritty, your characters unapologetically brash, your plot fast-moving and epic, and don't mind some salty language, this book (and hopefully the entire series) delivers. It is simply terrific. Yes, there is plenty of adult language, but I never found it gratuitous; it fit perfectly well with the characters and their hard lives, and if anything it added to the world-building and set this book apart from most mainstream fantasy. Sure, many (most?) of the male characters are incredibly misogynistic boors, and that can be tedious and cringey at times, but that is the world these people inhabit: it feels fitting. This book reminds me a lot of the old [a:Ramsay Thorne|209429|Ramsay Thorne|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png]/[a:Lou Cameron|350702|Lou Cameron|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] "Captain Gringo" ([b:Renegade|23474650|Renegade (A Captain Gringo Western Book 1)|Ramsay Thorn|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1414596634l/23474650._SX50_.jpg|43066070]) adult westerns: trashy and filthy, but well-written and incredible swash-buckling fun. Pros: main characters are half orcs so that was cool in that it one of the very few books where we are looking at the world through the view point of a non human character; main characters were riding hogs which is also pretty cool, I like seeing human-animal bonds being an important part of a story Cons: everything else but mainly I have a real BIG problem with how female characters from all the races are portrayed in this book. I won't repeat any of the derogatory terms used in the book here but one quote from the book pretty much sums it all up here "females are only good for f**king and fetching". And not a single male character seems to have an issue with this which is crazy considering how they were all conceived and how their origins are founded in slavery. It's actually quite disturbing when you reach the end of the story and you are trying desperately to think of a single female character that hasn't been raped, has self agency, isn't a prostitute, and isn't referred to in a derogatory manner. I just can't get behind this book because of this issue. It makes me wonder about the author and what his intent was with this book. Fílaði þessa sögu vel. French skapaði fantasíu heim þar sem persónusköpunin féll vel að umhverfinu og ég kunni vel við sögupersónurnar. Með því að láta söguna fjalla um hálf-orka var macho orðræðan í botni, stæltir vöðvar og grófur húmor. Um leið var varla slakur kafli í sögunni, nær stöðug spenna og óvænt atvik að dúkka upp. Kunni vel við söguheiminn og hlakka til að lesa næstu sögu auk þess sem mig langar að prófa fleiri sögur eftir French. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Appartiene alle SerieThe Lot Lands (1) Premi e riconoscimentiMenzioni
Call them outcasts, call them savages--they've been called worse, by their own mothers--but Jackal is proud to be a Grey Bastard. He and his fellow half-orcs patrol the barren wastes of the Lot Lands, spilling their own damned blood to keep civilized folk safe. A rabble of hard-talking, hog-riding, whore-mongering brawlers they may be, but the Bastards are Jackal's sworn brothers, fighting at his side in a land where there's no room for softness. And once Jackal's in charge--as soon as he can unseat the Bastards' tyrannical, seemingly unkillable founder--there's a few things they'll do different. Better. Or at least, that's the plan. Until the fallout from a deadly showdown makes Jackal start investigating the Lot Lands for himself. Soon, he's wondering if his feelings have blinded him to ugly truths about this world, and the Bastards' place in it. In a quest for answers that takes him from decaying dungeons to the frontlines of an ancient feud, Jackal finds himself battling invading orcs, rampaging centaurs, and grubby human conspiracies alike--along with a host of dark magics so terrifying they'd give even the heartiest Bastard pause. Finally, Jackal must ride to confront a threat that's lain in wait for generations, even as he wonders whether the Bastards can--or should--survive. Delivered with a generous wink to Sons of Anarchy, featuring sneaky-smart worldbuilding and gobs of fearsomely foul-mouthed charm, The Grey Bastards is a grimy, pulpy, masterpiece--and a raunchy, swaggering, cunningly clever adventure that's like nothing you've read before. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Took me a while to warm up to it but it just kept piling on good stuff: characters, backstory, atmosphere (usually malodorous), creatures of more kinds than I can count. Okay, it was a bit complex for me to really grasp how the many pieces fit together but I couldn't slow down reading to puzzle everything out. I liked it. ( )