From the critically acclaimed author of THE BROKEN EMPIRE series comes a brilliant new epic fantasy series, THE RED QUEEN'S WAR. I'm a liar and a cheat and a coward, but I will never, ever, let a friend down. Unless of course not letting them down requires honesty, fair play or bravery. The Red Queen is dreaded by the kings of the Broken Empire as they dread no other. Her grandson Jalan Kendeth - womaniser, gambler and all-out cad - is tenth in line to the throne. While his grandmother shapes ...
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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. I'm a liar and a cheat and a coward, but I will never, ever, let a friend down. Unless of course not letting them down requires honesty, fair play or bravery. The Red Queen is dreaded by the kings of the Broken Empire as they dread no other. Her grandson Jalan Kendeth - womaniser, gambler and all-out cad - is tenth in line to the throne. While his grandmother shapes the destiny of millions, Prince Jalan pursues his debauched pleasures. Until, that is, he gets entangled with Snorri ver Snagason, a huge Norse axeman and dragged against his will to the icy north...
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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.
