I was recommended The First Law by a friend, who referred to it as a great trilogy. I had just finished Wind and Truth, and was looking for a short series to jump into before starting The Expanse in preparation of the game being developed. As I got closer and closer to the end of the Last Argument of Kings, I started to feel less and less like this story was going to be wrapped up by the end. Did a quick search, and now realize I am just scratching the surface.
This is where my problem begins. I don't have a whole lot of time. I work two jobs, have three kids, and train martial arts. A lot of my reading is done while exercising or in the car. The though of continuing down the path of completing this series feels overwhelming with the backlog of books I am wanting to read. On the other hand, there are a couple of threads I want to see develop and wrapped up. Anyone who has limited reading time, how do you manage to juggle multiple "grand" series at a time? Do you tend to just stick to one until it is wrapped up? As an adult who was finally diagnosed with dyslexia, I have fallen in love with reading the last year, but it really is starting to feel impossible to see a series out.
At the end of the day, I don't think there is an answer to my problem aside from read ahead or give up. I just felt I needed to yell at a cloud about my issue, and I have no one to blame buy myself.
by Herassy
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It is a trilogy.
The next three books in the series are standalones. Then there’s a short stories anthology. Then another trilogy. Then another anthology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Law#Published_works
You can keep reading if you want, but there isn’t really a story that directly follows in the way we usually say that series do.
The first three books are a self-contained trilogy, The Last Argument of Kings wraps up the story. You don’t have to read the rest of the books if you don’t want to. I highly recommend finishing it if you are enjoying the series.
There are some more books, but Last Argument of Kings is the last book in the First Law Trilogy and could be read quite easily as a logical endpoint for most of the broader story.
There are additional stories with characters from the First Law world, but they don’t really connect to each other or work as part of a coherent whole. They’re more like one-shot character continuations.