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Red Country

Joe Abercrombie

Ages 16+

Readers rate it 4.2 (487 on Hardcover)

544 pages · Released Nov 13, 2012

Content report card

What's inside

High confidence

LGBTQ+ themes

What it offers

Educational value

A note for parents

Red Country is a dark fantasy novel set in a western-inspired world with significant violence, profanity, and morally complex characters. The story involves kidnapping, vengeance, and multiple combat scenes including massacres and duels. While it features strong character development and some emotional depth, the brutal tone and mature themes make it unsuitable for younger readers; it's best suited for teens and adults comfortable with grimdark fantasy.

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From the publisher

A New York Times bestseller! They burned her home. They stole her brother and sister. But vengeance is following. Shy South hoped to bury her bloody past and ride away smiling, but she'll have to sharpen up some bad old ways to get her family back, and she's not a woman to flinch from what needs doing. She sets off in... A New York Times bestseller! They burned her home. They stole her brother and sister. But vengeance is following. Shy South hoped to bury her bloody past and ride away smiling, but she'll have to sharpen up some bad old ways to get her family back, and she's not a woman to flinch from what needs doing. She sets off in pursuit with only a pair of oxen and her cowardly old step father Lamb for company. But it turns out Lamb's buried a bloody past of his own. And out in the lawless Far Country the past never stays buried. Their journey will take them across the barren plains to a frontier town gripped by gold fever, through feud, duel and massacre, high into the unmapped mountains to a reckoning with the Ghosts. Even worse, it will force them into an alliance with Nicomo Cosca, infamous soldier of fortune, and his feckless lawyer Temple, two men no one should ever have to trust . . . Red Country takes place in the same world as the First Law trilogy, Best Served Cold, andThe Heroes. This novel also represents the return of Logen Ninefingers, one of Abercrombie's most beloved characters.

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  • Fiction
  • Strong Character Development
  • Diverse Characters
  • Character driven
  • Loveable Characters
  • Unloveable Characters
  • Weak Character Development
  • Not Diverse Characters
  • Plot driven
  • Novel
  • adventurous
  • dark

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