Book Review: The Builders by Daniel Polansky (Three Stars)
“… as amoral as a loaded gun.”
If Joe Abercrombie had written The Wind in the Willows. Typical swords and sorcery fantasy, but with all characters familiar animals, mostly mammals. A few playing against stereotype.
“He’s fast.” “How fast?” “Slower than a bolt of lightning. Somewhat quicker than a hummingbird’s wing.”
Well done, but readers put off by Abercrombie violence are forewarned.
“A soul utterly remorseless, without conscience or scruple. But that is nature’s fault, and not the stoat’s; the stoat is what it has been made to be, as are we all.”
As a Matter of Fancy 
I remember telling you I’d read an Abercrombie book and it was good, though too violent to read any more of his books. You said you wouldn’t read him because of violence. Sorry you slogged through a similar author.