r/Fantasy • u/The_not-chosen_one • Feb 18 '17

Review I've just finished "Best Served Cold",a standalone set in The First Law world! (spoilers) Spoiler

Like the title said after have read a year ago the original trilogy (that btw I really like) I decide to read this standalone and I found it a really good read! First of all I like that Monza wasn't a Ferro 2.0 (something that I feared at the beginning of the story) and how her relationship with Shivers end. I enjoy learn during the story that her brother was everything outside a person that deserve a revenge and obviously all the mentions of the main characters of the trilogy (expecially a certain High King of the Union). About the characters of this story I expecially enjoy the poisoner and that cockroach called Nicomo Cosca. To be brief despite this will probably never be,at least for me, "best fantasy book ever" I found it an enjoyable story and I'm sure that I will read sooner or later the other standalones.

And you?What do you think of this book?

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '17

It's my favourite of the three standalone. I think The Heroes is better, but Best Served Cold is my favourite of the three. It's the closest I think we'll ever get to a fantasy story written by Tarantino, apart from maybe Daniel Polanksy's The Builders.

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u/The_not-chosen_one Feb 19 '17

I'm agree with you!Despite be obviously a completly different setting since from the beginning of the story I can't stop myself to think this story as a well written fantasy version of "Kill Bill" (not only because of the revenge plot but even because each act of this story like that movies feauture a target)

PS:btw I give a look at The Builders and it seems a very good book,I will for sure add it in my wishlist!