Half a King is the first literary fiction book in the Shattered Sea series by author Joe Abercrombie.
Yarvi, the second son of the fearsome King Uthrik and the ruthless Queen Laithlin of Gettland, was born with useless hands. Outcast, he gives up his birthright and is assigned to a woman as an apprentice to Mother Gundring, Minister of Gettland, training to be a counselor, diplomat, healer and translation.

But when his father and brother are murdered by Grom-gil-Gorm, King of neighboring Vansterland, Yarvi is forced to take the Black Chair and make himself king – or at least half-king – vowing to take revenge on those who killed his father, and lead a raid against the Vanstermen.

Betrayed, left to die, and enslaved in a rotten trading chamber, Yarvi will need all of the Minister’s wits and cunning to escape, as well as all supernatural abilities. and his knowledge to keep another group of slaves together on a month-long journey through the frozen waste of the north pole.
Among them are Sumael, the ship’s sole navigator, Rulf, a former raider, Jaud, an old baker, and Nothing, a mad old man with a mysterious past and an almost magical skill with a sword. And their master, the merciless Captain Shadikshirram, would tiptoe with every step. Father Peace may be the patron god of Ministers, but to regain the Black Chair, Yarvi will have to make a deal with Mother War, and once you have invited the crow mother as your guest.

• Half a King

• Shattered Sea, Book 1
• By: Joe Abercrombie

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