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God drat I love this series so much. The way the trilogy and Best Served Cold relate to each other and strengthen each other's themes is amazing. To me, the entirety of First Law is about getting caught up in poo poo way above your head and ultimately not being able to affect it at all, being carried along by events and helpless to control them. Very much "your fate is pre determined." And then Best Served Cold is essentially an entire work about individuals bucking the system and changing the world. Seriously, the happy ending winds up being the revenge-driven incestuous drug addict mercenary taking over a nation and running it with the help of a cannibal and an army of secret police, and you are rooting for her because everyone else is worse. Also, The Cripple is probably my favorite character in any work of fiction. His relationship with Frost and Severain is so sublimely hosed up.
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Copernic posted:I gave up on Best Served Cold about 5/8s through and have 0 regrets. Every single chapter was the exact same setpiece. You missed out! The ending's awesome.
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