The Retelling of the book "The Blade Itself" by Joe Abercrombie (PART I)

Hello everyone! I'm still trying to improve my English. For that purpose, I decided to make this retelling.
Thank you for your corrections in advance!

PART I

I have finished few chapters so far and have a very general idea of what's going on. As far as it is a high fantasy, the events are moving in the fictional medieval-type world. There are four main characters in the book, but I have met only two of them so far: the warrior Logen Ninefingers and the inquisitor Glokta.

At the beggining of the book, we find out that Logen is lost in the middle of the forest. He is attacked by a Schank, a flat-headed creature, after a fierce struggle he falls off a cliff into the river. Having become conscious (your phrasing here makes sense, but most English speakers I know would say "after regaining conciousness" so this is a matter of style, not necessarily correctness), he returns to his camp and finds no one but three killed Shanks. He understands that the camp has been attacked, but has no notion about where his folks (his friends? colleagues? team?-- again, this is pertaining to your style, not correctness) have gone. The forest teems with flat-headed, humanlike monsters, so the man picks up his belongings and decides to go to the mountains to rescue (protect) himself from them. He knows that there, in the highland, it will be much cooler than in the valley, but he has no choice...

Futher, the author tells the story of the another personage - Glokta, a ruthless torturer at the service of Inquisition of the King of the Union. A noble origin, a great family, a perfect carrier as swordsman and cavalry officer - he had it all but the war changed his life forever and made him a cripple. Glokta was imprisoned by enemies of the Union and spent two years under torture. After a peace treaty has been signed, Glokta was among the prisoners transferred to the Union. Physicians were convinced that he would never get up from bed. But a year later, the ex-prisoner submitted a petition to join the Inquisition. He was sent to Inglia, a cold northern province of the Union, to look after one of mines where accused offenders worked in exile (another style change). So three years later, the output of the mine that Glokta managed had doubled. For this achievement, he was transfered to Adua, the capital of the Union. Now he serves at the Inquisition House. He deals with supposed traitors of the Crown and makes them admit to crimes, disclose henchmen, and sign confessions - whether guilty or not. At this time in the novel, he interrogates and tortures a silk merchant who evaded royal taxes. But, he suddenly becomes compelled to break off his interrogation since Sult, Arch Lector of his Majesty's Inquisition, one of the most powerful men in the Union, comes to him with a special assignment...

 

 

Your English is fantastic! The only really corrections I had were minor-- and most of my input was to help you improve your writing style to sound more natural and fluent (even though nothing was technically wrong). You write better than some native English speaking college students! Awesome!

Hi, I'm from the USA :) No place is quite like home, so it's always wonderful to be at home.

 

I'm originally from and island near San Francisco, California-- but now I live in Dallas, Texas-- but I'll always be a California girl at heart.

 

The US has so many great places to visit for a vacation, and California has everything! Hot deserts, lush forests, popular beaches, snowy mountains, big cities, and small towns-- a little something for anyone! That's probably what I like most about the San Francisco Bay Area, you're close to everything (no more than a few hours drive away from any of those types of landscapes) and there's a place for anyone and everyone to fit in :)

I think it would be beneficial to have some English-speaking friends who are willing to help you. As I'm trying to learn Spanish, sometimes I'll send text messages in Spanish. At times I find myself thinking in very basic Spanish phrases-- so I believe that to mean I'm progressing :) You can also change your facebook and phone settings to English.