From the publisher that brought you Game of Thrones... Prince of Thorns is the first volume in a powerful new epic fantasy trilogy, original, absorbing and challenging. Before the thorns taught me their sharp lessons and bled weakness from me I had but one brother, and I loved him well. But those days are gone and what is left of them lies in my mother's tomb. Now I have many brothers, quick with knife and sword, and as evil as you please. We ride this broken empire and loot its corpse. They say these are violent ...
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From the publisher that brought you Game of Thrones... Prince of Thorns is the first volume in a powerful new epic fantasy trilogy, original, absorbing and challenging. Before the thorns taught me their sharp lessons and bled weakness from me I had but one brother, and I loved him well. But those days are gone and what is left of them lies in my mother's tomb. Now I have many brothers, quick with knife and sword, and as evil as you please. We ride this broken empire and loot its corpse. They say these are violent times, the end of days when the dead roam and monsters haunt the night. All that's true enough, but there's something worse out there, in the dark. Much worse. From being a privileged royal child, raised by a loving mother, Jorg Ancrath has become the Prince of Thorns, a charming, immoral boy leading a grim band of outlaws in a series of raids and atrocities. The world is in chaos: violence is rife, nightmares everywhere. Jorg has the ability to master the living and the dead, but there is still one thing that puts a chill in him. Returning to his father's castle Jorg must confront horrors from his childhood and carve himself a future with all hands turned against him. Mark Lawrence's debut novel tells a tale of blood and treachery, magic and brotherhood and paints a compelling and brutal, and sometimes beautiful, picture of an exceptional boy on his journey toward manhood and the throne.
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2.5, but I'll round up for style. So edgy yet unremarkable. Like... ridiculously edgy. Like I won't have to shave for a couple months with the razor sharp edges flying out of this book. The author really laid the evil on thick with Jorg. He's an unabashed murderer, liar, racist, sexist, and rapist all stemming from being horribly traumatized in his youth. I wouldn't even call him an antihero, he's just a blatant villain but one you ever so slightly root for. I would have rooted for him more if his personality had a few more layers and if his plot armor wasn't so bluntly obvious that it had me repeatedly saying "seriously, come on..." Insurmountable odds? JORG STAYS ALIVE. Ungodly powerful necromancers? JORG WINS FROM A FLUKE, and takes them out in the span of a sentence or two. People who have no reason to side with him and could easily kill him to be rid of him and the trouble he causes? HE GETS A SECOND CHANCE. This ridiculous plot armor starts making the action-y scenes fall flat on their face with little effect.
I had to continuously wrangle my attention back to the book through quite a few parts. The plot and worldbuilding redeemed it enough to keep me interested, has me wondering where it will go, and hoping the sequels are better.
