![]() ![]() ![]() This is the revolution from perspectives like these the event takes shape in the book. In the opening chapters he shows us: (1) a spy in the people’s army who thinks the leaders are mental, (2) a housewife who is scared for her husband’s health as he runs off to join the crowd, (3) a guard whose loyalty to the king doesn’t include wanting to get overrun, (4) a murderer who uses the uprising to answer an old grudge, (5) a young upper-class woman who doesn’t understand why she is suddenly the enemy, (6) a blind old lady with anger management issues, (7) soldiers who don’t want to kill civilians. This is not an epic battle between good and evil, nor a righteous quest for justice. For some of the main characters, this was all just thunder and lightning in the distance, but now the storm has arrived.īut this is revolution through the eyes of Abercrombie, and that means that any lofty ideal is regarded with scepticism. ![]() Throughout the Age of Madness trilogy, Abercrombie has been flirting with ideas about class revolution, and with The Wisdom of Crowds (2021), the revolution erupts in all its chaotic violence, spreading across the Union like an epidemic. I found it difficult to get through and it made me ambivalent about the whole series. I have loved most of Abercrombie’s books, but this was a disappointment for me. ![]()
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