Thirdly, and most sadly, this time around the book was almost entirely predictable. And to top it all off with a conspiracy theory seems just so… I’d say juvenile but there’s too much bitterness in Abercrombie’s writing for that epithet so I’ll settle for cynically lazy. Bigger is not necessarily better, whatever people tell you. If I wanted to read a parody on revolutions, I’d choose something else, too, because for some reason Abercrombie’s acerbic wit just doesn’t seem to work here. If I wanted to read a book on revolutions, I’d choose a better one, and non-fiction at that. His pale, crippled shades possess neither depth nor emotion nor tragedy of the originals. All his fake Robespierres and Dantons and Marxes and Marats and Louises XVI can’t hold a candle to the real ones. But then he decided it’s not enough, that this whole thing can be further improved. He did his research, fell in love with his research, understandably, I might add, revolutions are a heady stuff, and put in all the juicy pieces from the French and the American and the Russian revolutions into his book. The problem here, however, is that he writes nothing new. Good on him, I guess, at least someone had some fun with these chapters. Secondly, Abercrombie seems to revel in his description of the people’s revolution. Now I’m not sure if this was the right choice. That’s the first Abercrombie book that made me itch to read a Wikipedia synopsis instead of slogging through the unending quagmire of words. This book could have easily been cut in half and this surgery would have only improved it. My disappointment is twofold, and I’ll try my best to separate the technical, rather more objective one from the bitterly personal ).įirstly, the padding on The Wisdom of Crowds is bigger and fluffier than Savine’s most extravagant wig. For this is the first First Law World book that unequivocally sucked for me. But that knowledge doesn’t lessen the disappointment much. It’s hard, and I understand, and Abercrombie is certainly not the first one to fall into this trap. Pandemic, a looming economic crisis, people do what they can to make ends meet, churning out books like there’s no tomorrow, with less than usual regard for logic or excellence.
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