L’histoire suit Yarvi, le plus jeune fils d’un roi guerrier, né avec une infirmité à la main et qui n’est jamais à la hauteur des attentes de son père.

Commissioning editor Jane Johnson at HarperCollins:"I've never experienced such universal enthusiasm for a project in all my years at HarperCollins. We received the submission on a Wednesday and by Thursday afternoon everyone had read and adored it - the whole building was buzzing with the huge potential for this series. Nick Lake (Children's), Emma Coode (Voyager) and I discussed a cross-divisional strategy and on that basis offered immediately. Both Nick and I have been fans of Joe's adult work since The Blade Itself, but I had no idea he had so many other fans in-house."

Zaebas a écrit :Comment ça me tente bien tout ça ! Il va l'écrire en parallèle des autres romans publiés chez Gollancz et qui se passeront dans le monde de La Première Loi

Joe Abercrombie Finished the edit of Half a King. Many small improvements made. Now a couple of weeks to go through and really polish the details...

So there’s a long way to go, a lot of things to add, a lot of things to cut, a lot of laborious filing and polishing and shaping, but it cannot be denied that I now have a complete draft of Half the World. And, what’s more, it’s not even my next book. Half a King is due out in July this year, and is completely finished, Advance Reader Copies going out to writers and reviewers even as we speak. Half the World is due in February 2015. Been a long, long time since I was a book ahead like this. Still, the last book in this trilogy, Half a War, is currently loosely slated for July 2015, which means getting that finished by the end of this year. No rest for the grimdark…