So it is with Joe Abercrombie’s Best Served Cold. And in the world of Grimdark… there’s no purer motivation than that. Whether it’s the patient efforts of heroes like The Count of Monte Cristo or the general-turned-slave, Maximus Decimus Meridius of Gladiator fame, or indeed the more relentless pursuit of payback found in the likes of The Revenant and Jaws: The Revenge, most people can empathise with that base human need to take an eye for an eye.
Nothing drives a story quite so well as a good ol’fashioned bout of revenge. WARNING: I’ve hopefully kept things relatively vague and avoided spoilers – but reader beware!
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