 Hey guys, it's Leanna and I'm here today to talk about The Trouble with Peace by Joe Abercrombie. So I have been talking about this book since about a year ago when I finished A Little Hatred and I was like, what do I do until The Trouble with Peace comes out? So it came out and I instantly read it. So now what do I do until the next book comes out? That is not apparent, big fan, big, big, big fan of Joe Abercrombie in general. But The Trouble with Peace, I expected it to be good. I expected it to be my favorite book of the year. It's my new favorite Abercrombie book of all time ever. Oh boy. Okie dokie. So I'm terrible at positive reviews because I just I'm just like, this is so great. You should read it. It's wonderful. It's perfect. Don't change anything. It's delightful. The Trouble with Peace is the second book in the Age of Madness trilogy, which is Joe Abercrombie's new trilogy that takes place in the world of the first law, but it is its own new trilogy that takes place about 30 years after the events conclude at the end of the first law trilogy. And it has new characters that you meet in A Little Hatred. It has some characters that you already knew from the first law trilogy. It is very much a continuation, but it's also very much its own trilogy. So yeah, I'm a big, big fan of A Little Hatred. When I read A Little Hatred, it dethroned my former favorite Abercrombie book, which was Best Served Cold, which was one of the stand-alones. Now The Trouble with Peace. Okay, so like I just finished this last night and I read it in like two days. So I'm very fresh off of it, so I haven't really had time to digest it. Maybe I shouldn't be filming this review right now, but also I want to talk about it immediately. Ah, this is gonna be the worst review that I've ever filmed. If you loved a Abercrombie and if you loved A Little Hatred, then you will adore The Trouble with Peace because it is amazing. It's doing all the amazing things that A Little Hatred did, all the amazing things that A Little Hatred set up and running with them. And I can't, I mean I'm gonna film a spoilery review because this is just nuts. Like I literally can't talk about it without spoilers, and I also can't talk about it coherently. Just being vague about it because I'm just like it's great. It's perfect. It's delightful. It's delicious. It's dark. It's incredible. But I'm gonna try. I'm gonna try. I'm gonna try. So this new trilogy does take place in a more industrialized world with populous uprisings and that kind of thing, which is very relevant for the times. It feels very relevant for the times. As you're reading it, you're just like, oh man, I understand what's going on here. Like I've seen it. IRL. So in that sense, it's just, it resonates with a modern reader because you're, it's very, it's a little too familiar. But what Abercrombie has always excelled at is character work. So the plot is filled with battle and twists and turns and portrayals and politics and all that gritty, wonderful stuff that you're, that you love about Abercrombie books in general. And then the character work, which again is something that if you love Abercrombie, you also already know, already expect, already love. The character work is just, I never not amazed by it though. Even though I go into every Abercrombie book expecting brilliant character work. When he does it, I'm still always gobsmacked. I'm still always just thinking to myself like, oh my God, how do you do this though? Every single character is so fully fleshed out, so completely realized. Such a human being that leaps off the page that you feel, you know, you can see them, you understand them, you get them, you get what they're about. And even then they surprise you because just because you get what somebody is like and what they're into and what their sensibilities are and what type of person they are, what drives them. Even if you know a lot about a person, they can still surprise you and they do. So it's never predictable just because you know the character so well. It's never ever predictable. The characters surprise themselves and ugh, ugh, ugh. So, so good, so good, so good. I really enjoyed Savina Anglanta and A Little Hatred getting to know her. I thought she was incredibly well written and she continues to be extremely well written. I did enjoy Orso's character in A Little Hatred. I absolutely did. But Orso, the way that he grows and changes in this book was exceptional and I actually like looked forward to his chapters a lot more than I did in A Little Hatred. Like I still, I loved every bit of A Little Hatred and I enjoyed his chapters a lot. But in this book I'm more so looked forward to Orso's chapters which if you read A Little Hatred and you felt like me or you're just like yeah he was great because everything was great. But you weren't like that enamored with his plot line or his perspective that much. I think you'll find his perspective is um it's one of the best ones in The Trouble of Peace. It's so excellent. You've got some moments with Glockta which I absolutely live for. There are again a lot of the brilliance, a lot of the brilliant moments, a lot of the things in the book that had me going I can't talk about because they're a little completely spoilery or if not spoilery there's something that just won't make any sense to you unless I just tell you the entire plot so you understand how we got to that point and then I can tell you that point and at that point you may as well just look and read the book. Ugh it's so deliciously deliciously dark. What? Alright. Also I will say this I recently filmed and I don't know if it's gone up as of the filming of as of like this video going up. I don't know if that other video has been posted yet but I filmed a video that was reacting to one star reviews for my favorite books and one of the books that I decided to do was A Little Hatred and I saw some reviews for A Little Hatred that were one complaining about there being female characters in A Little Hatred just like ugh oh my oh but also complaining that A Little Hatred wasn't dark enough there wasn't enough battle there wasn't enough grit there wasn't a lot of violence which I think is also completely insane because A Little Hatred is exceptionally dark you don't have to have a literal battle for a book to be dark but these are clearly fools because they gave A Little Hatred one star so I don't know why I was expecting them to be in a new way intelligent. I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm not sorry if you were one of those numb nuts who were disappointed that A Little Hatred didn't have a literal battle in it. There's a literal battle in The Trouble with Peace so ironically the one that's got peace in the title that's the one that's got a battle and boy does it ever. If that's what you wanted if that's what you were hoping for if you felt let down well here's your book there is battle in here so enjoy. What else can I say I don't know I don't know just it's amazing read it. I love Abercrombie he's an absolute favorite author of mine and this is my favorite thing he's ever written and I was loud okay he's got great humor which I think I don't really talk about that much I just talk about how he's got great pros and great character work but like he's got like solid jokes so more so than before when I read Abercrombie books I usually think to myself how witty that was or think to myself like oh that was most excellent I was actually laughing out loud with some of the jokes in The Trouble with Peace. I wasn't like guffaws but like chuckling and tihiing and some of the jokes which were like really solid like honestly okay yeah so again those dumbasses that gave a little hatred one star who had a problem with Rika because she's a young female therefore a little hatred is YA oh my god what are you smoking oh anyway Rika her chapters also I really enjoyed more so than a little hatred and again I enjoyed Rika's chapters in a little hatred but even more so in Trouble with Peace she's really grown into her own much the way that or so has her interactions with a certain fail were like I like laughed like I actually laughed yeah so good so fucking good I just how are you supposed to review books positively that's why that's my question so all my reviews are with the negative ones because if it's negative I'm gonna be like this should be fixed this should be changed this would have been better if it was like this it would have been better overall this had been taken out with a perfect book you're just like I would change nothing I just think you should read it I don't know just it's fantastic an absolute joy to read it I'm just upset that I have to wait a year for the next book but I'm also delighted that Abercrombie is on this like very definite schedule of a book a year so I know that next September I will have another one and I believe it's called the madness of the wheel I might be completely wrong about that you know I don't know how Abercrombie's mind is capable of doing this it's truly astonishing and I'm got smacked as usual and it's I don't know what else to tell you I don't just fucking read it let me know in the comments down below if you're a big fan of Jo Abercrombie if this review wasn't any way helpful to you which I'm seriously doubting I feel like if you've already read it then you can enjoy this and be like yeah I feel you girl it's great it's so great right so great and if you haven't read it you're hoping to understand a little bit about what's in it and what to expect expect greatness done let me know in the comments down below all the things Abercrombie related I post videos on Saturdays other random times as well but definitely Saturdays so like and subscribe and I'll see you when I see you bye