# Has anyone read the Shattered Sea series by Joe Abercrombie??

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**Created:** [August 1, 2016, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-read-the-shattered-sea-series-by-joe-abercrombie/761481 "2016-08-01T16:32:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Brodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cc9497/32.png) [@Brodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brodi)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2016, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-read-the-shattered-sea-series-by-joe-abercrombie/761481/1 "2016-08-01T16:32:16Z")

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I loved the first book, Half a King, but right now I’m in the middle of book two, Half The World, and I’m starting to get tired of the

romantic tension between Thorn and Brand.

Does the stuff in the spoiler box continue for the whole book or does it stop and the original plot of

Yarvi and the others trying to find allies

continue?

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**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2016, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-read-the-shattered-sea-series-by-joe-abercrombie/761481/2 "2016-08-01T16:42:28Z")

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Your first spoiler box doesn’t continue forever, but rather evolves. As for the 2nd, if my memory serves, things change quite a bit in the thrust of the story (though I may be confusing it with the 3rd book’s story), so “no”.

I really enjoyed the series.

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**Author:** ![Brodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cc9497/32.png) [@Brodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brodi)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2016, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-read-the-shattered-sea-series-by-joe-abercrombie/761481/3 "2016-08-01T16:55:39Z")

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> [@iiandyiiii](#):
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> Your first spoiler box doesn’t continue forever, but rather evolves. As for the 2nd, if my memory serves, things change quite a bit in the thrust of the story (though I may be confusing it with the 3rd book’s story), so “no”.
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> I really enjoyed the series.

Good, I was getting tired of

The wishy washy puppy love crap.

I really enjoy the series, just wish those two weren’t in it.

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**Author:** ![magnusblitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@magnusblitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magnusblitz)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2016, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-read-the-shattered-sea-series-by-joe-abercrombie/761481/4 "2016-08-01T19:01:54Z")

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I enjoyed the series too, though I think the first book is the strongest and it declines as it goes along. Not as amazing as his First Law stuff, but still good.

The Thorn/Brand romantic stuff does eventually evolve (or resolve? depending on your view). The third book shifts to yet another different main viewpoint character, but continues the same overall plot of Yarvi and company gathering allies and combating their enemies.