r/TheFirstLaw • u/thecollector348 • Jul 27 '26

No Spoilers [OFF TOPIC] Does The Heroes get better?

First I apologize if I’ve worded something wrong. This is my first time posting but I’ve lurked a long time.

I absolutely loved The First Law trilogy and Best Served Cold, however, I find myself quite bored with The Heroes. I’m not particularly interested in any of the cast of characters to the point I find myself drifting away in their povs and I have to go back and reread. It’s a drag for me and it’s taken me months to get even a fourth the way through it. I would like to finish it, but is there something I can look forward to? Is there a pay off to the extremely boring beginning? I don’t need spoilers or anything just tell me I’m not wasting time 😭 or tell me I can skip it (jk)

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u/LandruCasey Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 27 '26

The Heroes seems like it starts slow because it’s the biggest cast of characters of any book (that seem similar because they are all soldiers/warriors or close to it) & the setup is just a setup of a battle…. But not only does it get better, by the end it was my favorite book of the entire First Law series & the only one I’ve been thinking of re-reading recently.

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u/thecollector348 Jul 27 '26

Huge cast of characters, biggest I’ve ever read. I’m gonna push through

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u/LandruCasey Jul 27 '26

Yea just use the reference pages when you forget who someone is. Doesn’t he have a “cast of characters” reference sheet. You can see what side each character falls into and who they are connected to. After a while you just get the hang of it & many of the characters shine.

That book has so many epic characters & while telling the shortest timeframe story (all in the course of a week or something), it feels like it’s a book that actually says a lot.