An Overly Excited Opinion of... Half a King by Joe Abercrombie

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As a person way too fond of puns I really wanted to say that reading Joe Abercrombie's Half a King was a tale of two halves, but that wouldn't be fair. It's a tale of around 85% fantastic fun and 15% that I didn't enjoy and found pretty annoying at times. It does seem as though I'm in the minority with this view as Half a King is doing very strongly for ratings on goodreads. Be that as it may, it didn't blow my socks off and here's why.