7/5/2023 0 Comments Red country abercrombieShy and Lamb start tracking the kidnappers, and this journey is 90% of the story. Everything has that Old West/Living on the Frontier feel to it. This scene not only acts as the inciting incident for the rest of the novel, but it also serves notice that this is a Western Fantasy novel. Lamb is made out to be a coward of sorts, but you know there is more to him than is immediately said.Īnd then Shy and Lamb return to their home to find it burned to the ground, and Shy’s little brother and sister have been taken. You find out shortly that Lamb isn’t Shy’s actual father, but he’s promised to raise Shy and her little brother and sister. They represent your typical frontier family with past baggage. Right from the start of RED COUNTRY, we are introduced to a couple new characters, Shy South and Lamb. In short, RED COUNTRY ( Amazon) is the best Fantasy Western I’ve read. Can you even begin to imagine how excited I was when Joe Abercrombie announced his next novel would have Western themes in it? And it would be called RED COUNTRY? If that doesn’t scream Western-styled violence, I don’t know what does. When I got older I found I loved the more mature stories in the genre. I grew up reading Louis L’Amour and watching John Wayne movies.
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