Shattered Sea

Shattered Sea
  • Half a King
  • Half the World
  • Half a War
Author Joe Abercrombie
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre Fantasy
Publisher
Published 2014 – 2015
Media type Print

Shattered Sea is a young adult fantasy series written by British author Joe Abercrombie,[1] a trilogy of novels published by Del Rey in the USA and Harper Voyager in the UK.

Novels

The trilogy
# Title Pages UK release UK hardback ISBN
1 Half a King 384 3 July 2014 ISBN 978-0007550203
2 Half the World 496 15 February 2015 ISBN 978-0007550234
3 Half a War 512 16 July 2015 ISBN 978-0007550265

Plot

The story follows the exploits of Yarvi, a young prince of Gettland with a disabled hand. When his father dies Yarvi is elevated to the throne but faces a struggle to keep it as others conspire to take it from him. [2] Initially the main point of view character, the second book moves to two new characters, Thorn and Brand, while Yarvi remains as a central character.[1] In the third book, three new POV characters (the princess Skara, the Vansterland warrior Raith, and Father Yarvi's apprentice, Koll) are introduced.

Setting

The trilogy is set in what is at first glance an epic fantasy world, but is later shown as a Dying Earth-type post-apocalyptic Scandinavia, seemingly thousands of years in the future. Society has regressed to a medieval-equivalent level after a cataclysm of some kind (probably nuclear), and the remnants of present-day civilisation are known as "elf-ruins".

The map of the Shattered Sea tallies closely with that of the current day Baltic Sea, the main three countries of the book, Gettland, Vansterland and Throvenland seem to make up most of what is left of modern-day Sweden.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 "Fiction Book Review: Half a King". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
  2. "Review: Half a King". Guardian. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
  3. "Decoding the map of Joe Abercrombie's Shattered Sea". The Wertzone. Retrieved 10 August 2015.

External links

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