Father Yarvi has come a long way and has made allies of his former enemies and achieved an unstable peace.īut now the ruthless Grandmother Wexen has raised the greatest army since the Elves faced God, and everyone is preparing for the imminent war including Raith, Grom-gil-Gorm’s Sword Bearer. She must overcome grief and terror, sharpen her wits to fight for Throvenland as Queen. Pincess Skara has witnessed everything she loved made blood and ashes. All this is reflected in the descriptions and stories that appear in the novels.

These specific weapons from the Elves, as explained in the novels, were the cause of their extinction. In fact, the so called Elves seem to represent us humans, our civilization, with our cities and weapons. Throughout the whole story the author presents us with ancient elvish ruins and cursed relics, and the actual event that caused their extinction, called the Breaking of God.Īlthough being inspired by the Vikings and having a medieval style, the trilogy seems to be placed at some moment in the future and in a world that could perfectly be ours. Joe Abercrombie was clearly inspired by the Vikings for this trilogy and even if it has a generally realistic style, it does include one strong fantastic element: the Elves.

The trilogy is made of the books Half a King, Half a World and Half a War and tells us the story of charismatic characters such as Yarvi, Thorn and Brand on their travels and wars between different kingdoms.

The Shattered Sea trilogy, written by Joe Abercrombie, introduces us a fantastic world that was once inhabited by the so called Elves, disappeared after the Breaking of God. I recently finished reading the Shattered Sea trilogy, by Joe Abercrombie and I wanted to dedicate it a well deserved entry in this blog and write a short review and opinion since I personally would recommend it to anyone.

Yarvi half a king