Mark Lawrence
Hardcover | Pages: 373 pages Rating: 3.86 | 87159 Users | 6295 Reviews
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| Title | : | Prince of Thorns (The Broken Empire #1) |
| Author | : | Mark Lawrence |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 373 pages |
| Published | : | August 2nd 2011 by Voyager (first published 2011) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Dark Fantasy. Epic Fantasy. High Fantasy |
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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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| Original Title: | Prince of Thorns |
| ISBN: | 0007423292 (ISBN13: 9780007423293) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Broken Empire #1 |
| Characters: | Jorg Ancrath |
| Literary Awards: | Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Nominee (2013), David Gemmell Morningstar Award Nominee for Best Fantasy Newcomer (2012), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fantasy (2011) |
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Ratings: 3.86 From 87159 Users | 6295 ReviewsArticle Epithetical Books Prince of Thorns (The Broken Empire #1)
Disclaimer: This is not a book for the faint-hearted or the easily offended. There is violence and a 14 years old prince with a total lack of conscience.Now, did you ever have a really bad day? Did you ever want to punch something/someone just to vent your anger? Did someone ever belittle you and you had to hold your tongue? Did you ever imagine how it would be if you were free to do whatever the f*ck you want to? No morals or laws to contain you. No conscience to keep you in check.Well,Prince Jorg ran away from his castle with a band of highway robbers. This merry company kills, rapes, burns, and does all kinds of related activities with full Jorg's participation. Did I mention sometimes the merry band is afraid of Jorg? Did I mention Jorg is only fourteen? Anyway, the guy decides it is time to return home. This is where the real fun begins. The shocking part of the book - atrocities committed by 14-year-old - did not work for me. There are several reasons. I suspect I became
Ive always had very mixed feelings about Lawrences world, but at this point in the series I did actually think it was fairly good. I thought the second book was much the same, then the third book was the complete ruination of this fantasy universe, but Ill address that fully in my later reviews of the series. For now though, the Prince of Thorns was exciting and dark. However, it did have some major problems that limited it severely. A dark protagonist Initially, the first few chapters
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For more than a year I had only written 1 review for The Broken Empire trilogy. A terrible mistake, and one I regret deeply, considering it's my favorite story, and Lawrence my favorite author respectively. Each installment deserves a separate review, so i'm here to deliver.Lawrence's debut is a milestone in modern fantasy. Solid writing and well-crafted characters, witty humor and sentimental elements, controversial circumstances and teeth-grinding situations, all skilfully combined in creating
Here's Cliff Notes to my review: The Blade Itself Lite, with significantly less character development, a typical revenge plot and little redemption.Feels suspiciously like watching a dog-fight video from ASPCA. Violent, powerful with a lack of finesse, subtlety or characterization, and the only redeeming aspect might occur at the end. The main character resists personal growth and opportunities for redemption, and commits violence after violence. We open as he watches a man die with his belly
Nope.I hated the main character from the start. He is a 14 year old boy leading a gang of ex-convicts. He is the anti-hero, with the book opening detailing his rape of farmer's daughters, and frequent visualizations of just about every person he meets dying to his blade in their chest or cutting off their head. Yeah we get it. You have to be cruel and disgusting to be the leader and you are the young boy that is so "bad" he frightens ghosts.... Riiight.At some point I just stopped caring. At
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