Joe Abercrombie's First Law novels

... to better enable the problematisation of the other aspects, but I don't really buy it. 3. Transgression . The books are replete with violence, swearing, character deaths and mutilations, unfortunate sex, etc. In that "Martinesque" way. But not in such a way that the typical reader will be shocked or confronted. Much more in a niche porn sort of way: that's what you paid for, so that's what you ...