He began to fulfill that vow in Prince of Thorns but now at the age of eighteen, he must hold onto the power he has gained through torture and treachery. Jorg vowed to avenge his slaughtered family at the young age of nine. The world is grim as ever due in part of Jorg’s vengeance and the destruction of the world out characters inhabit. I won't be reading the next one.Welcome back to the Broken Empire and our beloved anti-hero Jorg Ancrath. I prefer the suspense to come from the plot, not the writer doling out dribs and drabs of backstory.Overall, it was only a fraction as good as the first book, and if I had read this one first, I certainly wouldn't have continued with the series. Without the shock/violence and unexpectedness that was present in book one, this is just a lame 'boy treks through the countryside' story.That, and the flashback method of telling the story seems to be more intrusive this time - about half the book is told in flashback, and just enough is told to leave us in "suspense" until the next flashback.
This book is exactly that: a story about a boy growing up. I liked the hardcore sociopathism of the first story - that is what made that book more than a boy's growing up in a fantasy world.
the violence isn't there - and if it is, it's not "random" or excessive like it was in the first book - thereby losing most of the "shock" value that was in the first book. This one tries to have a similar style, but. If you tried reading those and like them in theory but have had trouble getting into them, I would highly recommend this series. These remind me so much of The Book of the New Sun tetralogy but far more entertaining and accessible. It's mostly more of the same, while adding to Jorg and Katherine's respective depth as characters.Īnd I said it when I read the first book and I'll say it again. I found myself liking her character quite a lot. Katherine appears in the story mostly through first-person diary entries, which are actually quite good. Even if they're only small doses compared to a well-adjusted human being, they are definitely a sign of growth and change. Enough to know regret, and enough to understand loss and remorse. The writing was beautiful, the small glimpses into the history of the world are great, and Jorg is as always an entertaining badass who takes no shit from anyone, only now he actually has grown up a bit.
It's up to the reader to believe how much of Jorg is "nature vs. Were they really his own? Or was he guided by others for most of his life? Is he really the reprehensible man we all know because of who he is, or because he was molded that way? Ultimately we don't know. Jorg's personality and decisions are called into question. The world-building and how magic can exist when these books take place in a post-apocalyptic future is more thoroughly explained. This book is, in almost every way, better than the first.
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