From the critically acclaimed author of THE BROKEN EMPIRE series comes a brilliant new epic fantasy series, THE RED QUEEN'S WAR. 'If you like dark you will love Mark Lawrence. And when the light breaks through and it all makes sense, the contrast is gorgeous' ROBIN HOBB The Red Queen is old but the kings of the Broken Empire fear her as they fear no other. Her grandson Jalan Kendeth is a coward, a cheat and a womaniser; and tenth in line to the throne. While his grandmother shapes the destiny ...
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From the critically acclaimed author of THE BROKEN EMPIRE series comes a brilliant new epic fantasy series, THE RED QUEEN'S WAR. 'If you like dark you will love Mark Lawrence. And when the light breaks through and it all makes sense, the contrast is gorgeous' ROBIN HOBB The Red Queen is old but the kings of the Broken Empire fear her as they fear no other. Her grandson Jalan Kendeth is a coward, a cheat and a womaniser; and tenth in line to the throne. While his grandmother shapes the destiny of millions, Prince Jalan pursues his debauched pleasures. Until he gets entangled with Snorri ver Snagason, a huge Norse axe man, and dragged against his will to the icy north. In a journey across half the Broken Empire, Jalan flees minions of the Dead King, agrees to duel an upstart prince named Jorg Ancrath, and meets the ice witch, Skilfar, all the time seeking a way to part company with Snorri before the Norseman's quest leads them to face his enemies in the black fort on the edge of the Bitter Ice. PRINCE OF FOOLS is the first book in the series.
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A decent 3.5 but I like the characters in this one FAR more than those of Prince of Thorns. They are much more fleshed out, with a well-done comical tone to the whole book with Jal's cowardice and sarcastic sense of humor. Prince of Fools dishes out fairly loveable characters with somewhat interesting character development, and some compelling action. The writing style is also so much more straightforward and easily followed. Whereas King and Emperor of Thorns at times were convoluted messes that took a lot of patience to keep up with, PoF has really only two narratives: current-day events and short flashbacks showing Snorri's backstory.
I enjoyed it a lot, only taking away a star because the last 40% of the book or so sort of devolved into a lackluster drag and felt full of a lot of unnecessary filling. Also, Jorg is in the book, but for only a moment and his appearance is so inconsequential, it could have been done much better. The slowness near the end is odd because I feel like I tend to have the opposite issue with books. It is not often that a book starts off STRONG like this one and loses its thunder halfway through in my experience. The climax ended up good enough though.
Overall, it really looks like I'll enjoy this series a lot more than I enjoyed Prince/King/Emperor of Thorns.
Kevin B
Dec 27, 2016
Meh
Predictable and snarky. No redeeming character development. Very disappointed.
