

Savine, Orso, Vic, and Bull all have roles to play in the Valbeck plot. Gunner “Bull” Broad, the seventh character, brings his family to Valbeck looking for work and becomes involved with the Breakers. The Breakers want to destroy the factories and bring sweeping change to the Union. She is infiltrating the group called the Breakers. Victarine (Vic) dan Teufel, the sixth character, is an undercover agent for Sand dan Glokta’s Inquisition. He wants to make a name for himself and he has a romance with Savine. He is the do-nothing, wastrel son of the King. The fifth character is Crown Prince Orso. She lives in Adua, the capital of the Union. She has substantial wealth and invests in new businesses at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution of the Union.

Savine dan Glokta, the fourth character, is the daughter of Sand dan Glokta, the head of the King’s Closed Council and the head of the Inquisition. The two armies face either other, leading to a confrontation between Leo dan Brock and Stour Nightfall. Jonas Clover, the third character, was a famous warrior but is now an observer of the Northmen’s court. His brother is Black Calder and Calder’s son is Stour Nightfall. The king of the Northmen is Iron Scalehand. The Northman invade the Protectorate and Leo’s mother command their troops to fall back toward Angland. Leo and Rikke meet and renew their childhood relationship. She has the Long Eye, a way of seeing images from the past or the future. Rikke, the second character, is the Dogman’s daughter. Angland ally is the Protectorate, ruled by the Dogman, the chieftain of the city of Uffrith. Leo dan Brock, the first character, is about to come into his inheritance as the Lord Governor of the province of Angland, a part of the Union. The characters meet and part in this complex narrative. Will they destroy Angland and Valbeck or will they survive? SummaryĪ Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie features seven points of view characters from both sides of the Angland and Valbeck conflicts. The city of Valbeck is the center of the unrest. The Industrial Revolution has arrived in the Union and civil unrest increases following unfair labor practices. There is a war brewing in the North as the Northmen invade Angland, the northern province of the Union.

First Law characters also appear in secondary roles in this series. This Trilogy follows an additional set of characters some are the children of characters from the First Law books.

The Trilogy occurs thirty years after the First Law Trilogy. A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie, Age of Madness Trilogy Book #1 IntroductionĪ Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie is the first book of the Age of Madness Trilogy, a follow-up trilogy of the First Law World Trilogy.
