Orcs by Stan Nicholls
Awfully stupid book.

On the front is a blurb by Tad Williams "Buy now or beg for mercy later."
Note to self: don't buy anythiing else by Tad Williams and don't bother ever finishing that one of his I started more than a decade ago.

Just from reading the blurbs I should have known better except the first one by the Independent claimed Nicholls was the equal of Robert Jordan and George Martin. Also I was at this strange bookstore that created the illusion of having a lot of books because it was an old converted house with 20+ rooms, but actually had a very small selection. And I wanted to get one fantasy book that day.

Fantasy is all about 2D characters but his are more 1D. His setting is about the same.

Injustice to right? Meh.
Some vague wonderful thing looming off in the distance? No.

Psychological insights? No.
Sociological insights? Tries to make the orcs seem like good people. He might be working his way around to saying something eventually interesting there, but I doubt it.

Perhaps this is like fantasy for marines I guess. I notice so many video games these days have a military thing, so the idea here was to that orcs are like marine grunts. Really just an awful piece of crap. I feel sorry for the fool having spent his time writing such a thing. But much more so for all the people who wasted any time partially reading it.