Some familiar faces return along with assorted offspring. Various mages may or may not be meddlesome. Despite summary executions, the Breakers, an angry, Luddite-like group of dissidents and union organizers, are a growing force. Dissolute philanderer Prince Orso, Savine's secret lover, experiences vague urges to reform and do something useful while his father, High King Jezal, shows no interest in the looming conflict.
Savine dan Glokta, daughter of the feared chief inquisitor, nurtures a ruthless ambition to control large chunks of industry. His mortal enemy is Stour Nightfall, whose father engages surly, insubordinate ex-warrior Jonas Clover to teach Stour how not be a total jerk. Battling the Northmen is reckless fighter Leo dan Brock. A desperate fugitive from pursuing Northmen, Rikke may have the second sight tough hillwoman Isern is determined to help her survive long enough to find out. Every scene features one or more memorably well-developed, convincingly lifelike characters. It's what they do.) The Union may or may not be imperiled: Abercrombie spurns maps, so it's never clear which territories are part of it or where they lie in relation to one another. Nor the plot, which proves elusive and possibly unfathomable.
There's nothing distinctive about the backdrop, being a fantasy-standard medieval Europe with magic and a developing industrial revolution. First entry in a new trilogy set in the world of, and as a direct if long-awaited sequel to, the First Law trilogy ( Last Argument of Kings, 2008, etc.).
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