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The Heretics

The Heretics

FantasyGrimdark
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Pages
512

Synopsis

When saints turn away, devils must do god's work. Mother Beckert, a disgraced Inquisitor, has one chance at redemption: root out the heresy festering in the crumbling city of Zeitz — even if the only tools she has are heretics themselves.

Her Chapel of the Holy Expediency is a ramshackle band of the damned: an insatiable werewolf, a depressed necromancer, and a beggar afflicted by visions. What they dig up in Zeitz runs deeper than any of them bargained for, and the nobleman Hugo von Klotz has designs of his own on the witch hunt.

The Heretics is the second book in The Devils, Joe Abercrombie's grimdark historical fantasy series.

Prose complexity
7/10

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Genres

Fantasy Grimdark Dark Fantasy Epic Fantasy

About the author

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Joe Abercrombie

Joe Abercrombie (born Joseph Edward Abercrombie, 31 December 1974 in Lancaster, Lancashire) is an English fantasy novelist. He was educated at Lancaster Royal Grammar School and read psychology at the University of Manchester, then moved to London and joined a television post-production company before going freelance as a film editor, cutting documentaries, music videos and concert films. He began writing The First Law in 2002, and the trilogy — The Blade Itself (2006), Before They Are Hanged (...

Characters

Mother BeckertProtagonist

A disgraced Inquisitor given one chance at redemption: rooting heresy out of the city of Zeitz.

Hugo von KlotzAntagonist

A nobleman, sixth in line to inherit Zeitz, who uses a church-sanctioned witch hunt to clear his rivals.

All characters in The Heretics