The Devil's Armor

I'm so glad I read this right after reading Joe Abercrombie's The First Law. Is it as good? Hell no but both author's have outstanding character development and that is just my favorite. It's hard for me to retain great battle scenes or intricate details of the setting that most people love but I'll be able to remember 10 years from now if a character was awesome to read about or not!

The story kicks off a year after the first book. Lukien, still heart broken over Cassandra, unfortunately is barely in this book but it builds up a lot of other characters I really enjoyed. People are hearing more about Grimhold and are flocking to it hoping to fix their kid's disabilities, but there's only so many magical spirits left to heal people.

Meriel is still fawning over Lukien and thinks that if she can get rid of her burns and go back to her beautiful self then he will desire her as much as she does him.

Baron Glass has stolen the Devil's Armor and is being possessed to do the Demon's bidding, but there is still enough Baron in there to sometimes fight it.

King Lorn the Wicked has escaped his kingdom from the hands of The Diamond Queen, Jazana Carr who is created a large mercenary army and is planning to take over the world, Liiria being her next target. But are they as evil as claimed?

So once again The Bronze Knight and Co. must save themselves from evil. Can't wait to read the next book.