 Hey guys it's Liana and I'm here today to talk spoilers about The Trouble with Peace by Joe Abercrombie. As previously mentioned, and I'm assuming I posted that review first, I posted a non-spoiler review which was a mess because I was just like, Ezra, look at that! It's amazing. So, I can't really talk about what's amazing about it without going into spoilers. So that's what we're doing today. We're just gonna talk spoilers. I'm not gonna tell you, like, generally overall what my feelings are. My overall feelings are that it's fucking brilliant. It's brilliant as fuck. It's Abercrombie. So we're not doing that today. We're not being like, well overall I felt it was like this and I generally recommended it. We're just gonna go through random shit as I think of it that I was just like, that was great. That blew my mind. You understand what we're here for? Great, I'm gonna put this down. Okay, so I really, really, really, really enjoyed Orso and Rick's character development in this book. I also enjoyed everybody's character development. Everything was great. Savine too. But those two really stood out for me as different from Little Hatred. Little Hatred, I think my favorite was Savine. But my favorites here were Orso and Ricka, which was quite a shift. Which I mentioned, I think, in that review, but I couldn't really go into why. And I just, the plotline with Ricka, where she's unable to tell the difference between the future and the present reality or even the past and it's all blending together. Oh my God, that was brilliantly handled. I mean, the concept was cool, but it was executed like nobody I've ever seen execute something like that before. So I've seen before, or like what Abokami did before, which was cool. And I feel like this was kind of an extension of that or like a new way to do something similar was in previous books where he's had the one scene and another begin on the same line or the same moment but from a different perspective or from a different place. So like, I'm thinking Investor of Cold, when there's like the two scenes where people are fucking and those scenes keep bouncing back and forth between each other and he plays with your expectations about who's fucking who and which like that, if you read Investor of Cold, you know what I'm talking about, that scene. So Ricka being in the present moment and then realizing she's not in the present moment and then realizing that she might be in the past and then realizing maybe she is in the present moment and you, the way that you as the reader also don't know and are just as surprised as she is that this is not the present. That was, wow. That was done so, so well, even though he did it a few times. For me anyway, I never expected it, even though he did it a couple times where Ricka was like, oh, this hasn't happened yet. It wasn't like the next time I saw Ricka, I was like, well, this probably hasn't happened yet. The way he just like sinks you into the moment and lulls you into the sense of, well, this is the present. And then you're like, fuck, this isn't the present either. And then when she realizes it's not the present and you're like, okay, well, then now we're in the present and that's still not the present. Oh my God, that, that shifting of perception was so, so well done. I was just like, oh my God, both like in the moment in the book being like, oh my God, and also like, Natalie, Natalie, that's not a word, but you know, like outside of the reading experience going like, you as an author, sir, wow, wowza, then Savine being pregnant. I just, he handled her menstruating so well in a little hatred and then her being pregnant and going through like, I've never been pregnant, but I've had friends who are pregnant currently and who have told me when they were pregnant, what it was like. And I've never really seen it depicted realistically in any book written by a male or a female. And the way Abercrombie wrote it helps like, holy fuck. He must have like asked his wife to give him the nittiest, grittiest, most disgusting details about what pregnancy was like because he was all in there and the way he writes it, continue to be gobsmacked by his ability to write characters, male or female. Where I'm just like, how can you be in that headspace? How do you know? I feel like you know. Like, I feel like Abercrombie is a bigger expert on being pregnant than I am and neither of us has ever been pregnant. Him, Joe Abercrombie and myself, we share that. I don't know that I'd be able to write about pregnancy better than he did. So wow. Then the way that Orso kind of like shifted into sort of seeing what he's made from and when he's in the battle and he's realizing that like he's kind of like throughout the book it's been kind of teased where he's just kind of like dealing with anxiety and like doesn't know what to do with his life. And I kind of always had that suspicion and how it's been confirmed in the most satisfying way that he is sharpened by necessity and like he works really well under pressure and no one ever put pressure on him and he was just like lulling about in his life and just didn't have, he's a directionless person. But if you give him concrete high-pressure direction, he flourishes. And there are, I mean, I'm a little bit that way myself like not to the degree Orso is also like I wasn't as pampered as Orso, but I'm that way too. So I recognize that in him at Abercrombie capture that so well and I can say that from experience being that kind of person where if you don't give me deadlines, if you don't give me pressure, I'm kind of useless and lazy. But if I have a huge amount of pressure and like high stakes, I'm fine. So like I don't know that that would apply in a battle situation like thankfully I've never been in a battle. I don't know that I would want to be, but I recognized a little of myself in Orso, which was strange. But I was like, yep. Once again, excellent character work at Abercrombie. I want to surprise. And then, and then this is probably my favorite thing in the book that I could, I was like seeing it happen. I was like, isn't that what's happening? And then I was like, that's literally what's happening that Leo Dan Brock is kind of becoming Sam Dan Glokta. And I just, when that was happening. I squealed internally. I don't know how else to say it. Like when it was getting injured and then it was clear that he was going to survive. I was like, okay. And then just like the parallels, how he's learned so much from being broken and how he, like Glokta was definitely crueler. Leo wasn't cruel. He was just naive. But the Glokta was this kind of like ambitious and arrogant warrior who was handsome. And that's a bit like Leo. Leo again was thought of himself as being very virtuous, but very naive. Glokta never thought of himself as like virtuous night for the little people, but was still this like very attractive and arrogant soldier and being broken. Just the way that already in the beginning, I felt like Savine was a little bit following her mother's path because like there was somebody that she wanted to marry who is royalty, but she can't. And as a marriage of convenience because she's pregnant, she's marrying someone else. I was like, that's already kind of Artie's path that Savine is kind of like repeating history on. And then the order of events is different because Glokta was already broken when that happened already, but that Leo basically becomes Glokta. I was just like, ah, I skipped and it's not handled in this like really cliche like, well, that's history repeating itself. Yeah, we've seen that before. Star Wars. It was just it crept up on you in a way that you were just like, yeah, like it's same, but different, different, but same. Mind fucking blown. So good and I can't wait to see when Orso was demanding to know why she rejected him. I was like, is she going to tell him? And if she does tell him, how is he going to take it? And so she did tell him and I was like, okay, so what's he going to say? How is he going to react to this? And we still don't know that I was so frustrated but like I respect the decision, sir, because after Orso finds that out, you don't get another POV chapter from Orso. And I was just like, I want to know what he's thinking. I need to know what he's thinking. Well, how does he feel about this? And we don't know. And I'm dying for the next book to find out how he's processed this information and where they're going to go from here because obviously like he still cares enough. Either he cares enough or he has an ulterior motive. Likely both, because it's an airwrapping book, but he's defying bias in order to keep Leo Dan Brock alive for Sabine's sake. So presumably he cares about her enough to do that and or he just really wants to stick into bias, which could just be an added cherry on top or his is his absolute purpose in doing that unclear because we didn't have an Orso chapter. But like, where do we go from here? Like Glockta was broken but became an inquisitor and then arch-lecture. Leo Dan Brock does not currently have a skill set like that. He is not super bright as far as we've seen. Like Glockta was a scheming and a vicious person. So once he no longer had a body, he still had a mind. Brock has like the sense of possibly having something like that. Like he's beginning to see where he went wrong and he's no longer able to just go like running into battle. Like he cannot be hotheaded anymore because he physically cannot be. So like that would affect him. That would force him into being more considerate in his actions just because he can't rush before he can think he physically cannot. So he has to think about it. He's forced into it. So like that could have substantial effects on the type of person that he is and being humble and having to rely on people like Savine or other people around to take care of him. But as of the ending of this book, he's not a free citizen. He's imprisoned but alive. So then I wonder like does Orso have a plan? Like did he just spare his life for Savine? But he was just like, okay, I mean, he's alive, but like he's gonna be a prisoner or whatever. Or is it gonna be one of these situations where like he's in prison but like secretly he's gonna get taken out of prison but then like why? Because what could he possibly do that would be helpful or beneficial? I guess they could sneak him back to England to his mom. But why? Like in what way would that help Orso? It wouldn't. But so like what is Orso gonna do? Like what's the plan here? Just keep him imprisoned indefinitely? Like to what end? What is Savine gonna do? And what is she gonna do with her baby? Is that what, what's the plan? What are we doing? What's the next book gonna be? I'm just dying to know because it's gonna be something. I mean, I guess Savine could go and live with her parents which, you know, just because I want to see Glokta again. I hope she at least visits them because I want to see Glokta again. But yeah, like I just, I was upset but also like again delighted and impressed and I respected the decision to not give us an Orso chapter but I was just like Orso chapter? Nope. And the book's over. God damn it. What is he thinking? What is he gonna do? What is the plan here? Also, what is Baia gonna do? Because also we have not addressed, I mean I'm just like all about the Orso plotline because that was like the most interesting to me. Probably because I saw myself in Orso. I'll take from that what you will. But obviously the reveal that the weaver is actually Pike because like earlier in the book after Glokta resigns and it's like, you know, you should make Pike the next arch-lector and we really the only like sense of Pike as an arch-lector and as a person we had was him like killing all those people and a little hatred. Yeah, that makes sense. But like an Abercrombie does a great character work but I was just like, he's not as interesting as Glokta. What was that wrong? But like when we that instance when the boy is running away and he's caught and brought back and Vic obviously assumes that Pike is going to kill the boy because as far as she knows as far as the audience thinks Pike is only capable of killing. Like he's a he doesn't have a heart and so when he doesn't kill that boy and he does and he has this whole line about you know, like having a reputation and punishing people where people can see panoramic Casprecker. So I was like already when that happened I was just like, hmm, there's a little more to you. Okay. I'm interested. And then when he's starting to talk to Vic about the breakers and the burners and just like Vic, it wasn't those situations where you're like, well, the character doesn't see where this is going but either read or see where this is going. I just like Vic was like, this could go so many different ways. I don't know when she's like, what answer is he looking for for me? Is it a trap or whichever answer I give is the wrong answer. I was like, if it certainly feels that way I'm with you honey. Like I don't know what he wants. You're on your own. And then I started getting the feeling like, okay, it sounds like he might be involved and then he's like a fucking weaver and he's burning down the banking house as a valented bulk, which throughout the first law from beginning to end I have just adored the fact that the ultimate villain, the big reveal villain, the dark conspiracy that unifies all these books is that the banks are evil. I love that. Like the fact of that, that your evil dark wizard, his evil darkness, his hand on the world is the bank. Genius. To the point where when people say valented bulk, you're like, it's like staying Voldemort. So yeah, that they're burning down the banking houses of valented bulk. And like, I mean, yeah, bias has bias himself has said the magic spading from the world and without his banks, like are we going to see the downfall of bias by the end of this trilogy? Is that what the trilogy is doing is saying that the industrial age is once and for all going to be the end of magic and therefore the end of bias and his control over the world. Is that where this is going? Possibly possibly not. I don't, I don't know. It's an option. I'm so, oh my God. I'm also really upset. There's only one more book. Like he's got to write more in the first lot. Like initially when they announced a little hatred in this new trilogy, I was just like, I love the world of the first law, but is there more to tell? Are we just like just scraping the bottom of the barrel here to just get some more first law? But I was so wrong and I'm so sorry. This is the best yet, but also I feel like there's so much story to tell that it can't possibly all fit in the last book because he's kind of set more things up. Everything always like every action has like a ripple effect in this world that you just write in the world of the first law forever and I would be here for it and I would read it forever. He loved it so much. I loved it so, so much. And then I mentioned it before, which isn't really spoiler, but like I didn't have examples, but the jokes between Cernafail and Rika. And then also I just, I love shivers being around because he had such, he was one of the best character arcs in all of the first law. I kind of, I still stand by that. No matter how much I like these new books, shivers character arc from when you meet him until this point, it's, it's amazing. But having him around as just kind of this like sinister bodyguard of Rika, but then also being like a total teddy bear with Rika by another author hand, if it was done by another author, I feel like that could be so cliche and cheesy like the monster with the heart of gold, but like shivers isn't a monster with a heart of gold. He's a monstrous person who's done monstrous things, but is also a human being and also like does feel affection and does need moments of softness because he's a human being. He's not a good guy, but he's not pure evil. Like he's so complicated and deliciously so and his relationship with Rika is just like, like it's so precious, but in an abracame way. So it's not just like all smuggles and bunnies, like it's very fucking dark, but also so cute. Rika and shivers all like I never ever want anything to part them, which means they probably will die or something horrible will happen. But the fact that Rika is also basically missing an eye and like she's different, but like that like parallel of like shivers eye and Rika's eye. I was just like, see what you're doing. I love it. I'm here for it. Oh, okay. I think I'm done. That book was so good. So hopefully you've read it. I don't know why you're watching this video if you haven't, but let me know in the comments down below some of your favorite parts or whatever you want to let me know about Abercrombie, the first law, the trouble with peace, the age of madness, the things, post videos on Saturdays. So like and subscribe and I'll see you when I see you. Bye.