King of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #2)
Mark Lawrence
The second book in the Broken Empire series, Lawrence takes his young anti-hero one step closer to his grand ambition. To reach greatness you must step on bodies, and many brothers lie trodden in my wake. I’ve walked from pawn to player and I’ll win this game of ours, though the cost of it may drown the world in blood… The land burns with the fires of a hundred battles as lords and petty kings fight for the Broken Empire. The long road to avenge the slaughter of his mother and brother has shown Prince Honorous Jorg Ancrath the hidden hands behind this endless war. He saw the game and vowed to sweep the board. First though he must gather his own pieces, learn the rules of play, and discover how to break them. A six nation army, twenty thousand strong, marches toward Jorg's gates, led by a champion beloved of the people. Every decent man prays this shining hero will unite the empire and heal its wounds. Every omen says he will. Every good king knows to bend the knee in the face of overwhelming odds, if only to save their people and their lands. But King Jorg is not a good king. Faced by an enemy many times his strength Jorg knows that he cannot win a fair fight. But playing fair was never part of Jorg’s game plan.
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0Mr. Lawrence really knows how to keep me glued to a book and I appreciate that very much. Oh how I love Jorg Ancrath, this boy, I mean man now, is the darkest, grittiest, foulest guy I have probably ever loved in a book.
I loved how we got to know more about what happened after Jorg became King and the years weren’t just skipped over to make a sequel . We got a combination of past and present and I enjoyed that.
I adore the relationship between Jorg and Gog, I enjoyed seeing another side of Jorg that wasn’t just, death death death, sure he has ulterior motives to helping Gog but you could read the care he had for him. He seems to be a bit more aware of people around him and how they effect him and make him feel and it’s nice seeing him react to it.
He is still quick to kill, but he thinks them through a little more now (well some of them)
Also that twist with the Arrow brothers, you would think with all the fantasy I have read in my life I would have seen that coming but nope, I didn’t, I failed to see that coming. And little Miana, this girl, this girl, yes I love her, she isn’t a dainty girl who needs protection, she is pretty dark and foul herself and I love that.
Also I will rage if anything happens to Makin I love him dearly.
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