User blog:KingEps/My opinion on "The Heroes" by Joe Abercrombie, Opinions

Hello, everyone! Having recently read the fifth book of the "The First Law" series, which is also the second of the three stand-alone titles, I have been having this "inspirational" wave to write my own fantasy compositions. Indeed, "The Heroes" is probably one of the most inspiring books that I have read - the message, quite poignant in a way, is extremely powerful, the characters are original and masterfully described and the narrative is just as astounding, exactly in the style of this amazing author. And in spite of the fact that I haven't read the other books yet, to doing of which I'm really looking forward to, I really enjoyed this incredible novel, laughing and crying at the same time.

The story of this colourful and quite graphic masterpiece is set several years after the main events of the trilogy and describes a period of just five days, despite his five hundred pages. It tells the story of the last days of the war between the North and the South, between the horrific hordes of tough and sturdy man of Black Dow and the disciplined army of the Union, fighting for the hill called The Heroes, focusing on characters new and old, whose stories are all interesting to learn.

As I said, this book has an incredibly powerful message and the author is definitely using loads of metaphorical expressions to get it across. The hill itself with the big stones, representing dead heroes from past times, is a metaphore of the lack of heroes in the world - the only "heroes" are only those burried under the stone, and the others cannot be such.