Love Epic Fantasy? Love Epic Fantasy with a western feel? Love guys named Joe? Even if it’s just one of the three — check out RED COUNTRY  by Joe Abercrombie. It’s fresh, it’s innovative (please pronounce in the British way please!) and it’s fun. Fun in a dark, gritty, dark kind of way. You know, the “There Will Be Blood” kind of way.  A bit about the novel:

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 alliance with Nicomo Cosca, infamous soldier of fortune, and his feckless lawyer Temple, two men no one should ever have to trust . . .

“Terrific fight scenes, compelling characters (some familiar, some new), and sardonic, vivid prose show Abercrombie at the top of his game.”  –Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Preview it for yourself and read chapter one from this fantastic new novel by Joe Abercrombie.