Just Finished Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie... For the longest time I put off starting Joe Abercrombie's stand alone novels, because the First Law trilogy was so awesome, and left me so hollow, that I felt like alternate stories in that world simply couldn't measure up.

WOW was a wrong. This was fantastic, the best by him that I've read so far. It was like Kill Bill meets The Count of Monte Cristo. Dark and funny and fucked up all at once.

One thing has been killing me though. Why, oh why, oh WHY did Alan Rickman have to die before somebody could cast him to play Castor Morveer on the big screen!?