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@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Last year I read Joe Abercrombie's _Age of Madness_ trilogy and loved it. Funni
What I think I like about Abercrombie his is ability to hold plot in one hand, and writing style in the other. His stories either seem to orbit around (or perhaps get pulled out of orbit _by_) the less respectful parts of human nature and societies - dehumanisation and eventual genocide through racism, faith in the face of seemingly silent god(s), and plain-faced indifference to human suffering. Not, in other words, a riot (pun intended). But he balances it with a wit and rhythm that sort of keeps asking you "well what did you expect?" as he makes horrible things stumble over eachother in the story _he is telling you_. What I think I like about Abercrombie his is ability to hold plot in one hand, and writing style in the other. His stories either seem to orbit around (or perhaps get pulled out of orbit _by_) the less respectful parts of human nature and societies - dehumanisation and eventual genocide through racism, faith in the face of seemingly silent god(s), and plain-faced indifference to human suffering. Not, in other words, a riot (pun intended). But he balances it with a wit and rhythm that sort of keeps asking you "well what did you expect?" as he makes horrible things stumble over eachother in the story _he is telling you_.
I picked up _The Devils_ looking for a stand-alone novel ([not my first stand-alone fantasy novel this year](/2026-02-04-book-review-the-tower-of-the-tyrant-jt-greathouse)), at a (very pleasantly narrated) 25 hours it wasn't exactly "short" but it has carried me the whole way through the construction of a pair of linen trousers, from cutting to hand finishing. I have since learned that it's [not even going to be a standalone](https://reactormag.com/book-announcement-the-heretics-by-joe-abercrombie/). I picked up _The Devils_ looking for a stand-alone novel ([not my first stand-alone fantasy novel this year](/blog/2026-02-04-book-review-the-tower-of-the-tyrant-jt-greathouse)), at a (very pleasantly narrated) 25 hours it wasn't exactly "short" but it has carried me the whole way through the construction of a pair of linen trousers, from cutting to hand finishing. I have since learned that it's [not even going to be a standalone](https://reactormag.com/book-announcement-the-heretics-by-joe-abercrombie/).
Unlike (I think) all of his other books, _The Devils_ is set in our actual open-Google-maps-and-you'll-see-it Western Europe geography. There's Troy and Barcelona, Germany and Poland. Given that a hefty tranche of pulp fantasy literature is in some invented idea of medieval Western Europe, I think this is interesting. Why go to all the effort of re-creating something that's real but with the names changed. Or why shuffle the Mahjong tiles around the table until you've got something that's totally not medieval Europe (wink wink). Across the fictional medium pond, in video games, 2025's _Kingdom Come: Deliverance II_ ([wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_Come:_Deliverance_II)) achieved critical and popular success by recreating the historical setting of fifteenth-century Bohemia[^bohemia] Unlike (I think) all of his other books, _The Devils_ is set in our actual open-Google-maps-and-you'll-see-it Western Europe geography. There's Troy and Barcelona, Germany and Poland. Given that a hefty tranche of pulp fantasy literature is in some invented idea of medieval Western Europe, I think this is interesting. Why go to all the effort of re-creating something that's real but with the names changed. Or why shuffle the Mahjong tiles around the table until you've got something that's totally not medieval Europe (wink wink). Across the fictional medium pond, in video games, 2025's _Kingdom Come: Deliverance II_ ([wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_Come:_Deliverance_II)) achieved critical and popular success by recreating the historical setting of fifteenth-century Bohemia[^bohemia]