The conclusion of The Age of Madness and, so far, the final novel in the First Law world. Revolution arrives. The violence is overwhelming and the aftermath is worse - the novel is unflinching about what revolutions actually do to the people who make them and the people who get caught in them. Every major character is tested, and Abercrombie's refusal to exempt anyone from consequence extends to people the reader has been following for three books. The Wisdom of Crowds is the bleakest entry in a bleak series and also, in its way, the most honest.