Status Updates From Half a War (Shattered Sea, #3)

And have I said anything yet about how much Sound reverberates off the pages Abercrombie wrote? Example from the chapter titled Killer:

“All was a storm of splintering wood and clattering metal and broken voices that echoed in Raith’s head until his skull rang with it, split with it, burst with it.”

The battle scenes are as loud as they are astounding!

Abercrombie doesn’t just paint characters with subtle ease. His scenery glows with light, shimmers with colors, and dances through every page. I am constantly smiling as I read this series through to the end.

Taken from the chapter titled Power - (Queen Skara talks to Raith)

“You do not have to trust a man to make use of him. My doorkeeper, after all, used to fill cups for Grom-gil-Gorm.”
Raith frowned harder than ever as he fiddled at that notch in his ear. “You might be best not trusting anyone.”

Almost Shakespearean in nature. Teenagers thrust into making adult decisions.

Such strong-woman books.
I am in awe of their creator.

From the chapter Bail’s Blood -

Where reason fails, Mother Kyre once told her, madness may succeed.
“Perhaps you need to see it!” Skara reached down and snatched the dagger from Raith’s belt.

Gutsy little seventeen year old.
Actually not a terrible stretch to say The Shattered Sea series is appropriate for YAs. It’s no more violent that the Mockingjay series.