Prince of Fools (The Red Queen's War Book 1)
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4.5* After the amazing conclusion of one of my all time favorite series, The Broken Empire Trilogy, Mark Lawrence now published the first book of his new series The Red Queen's War and I couldn't wait to get my hands on this one. Set in the same world as TBE it plays out parallel to Prince of Thorns and readers of the first series get a few eastereggs and crossovers, but it's in no way necessary to read the previous books to understand these. That is actually a very clever move by Mark Lawrence, Jorg wasn't every ones cup of tea, you either hate him or love him. In my goodreads friend list the opinions really go only these two directions and thus many people didn't read the other two books. But here we get a restart with a totally different character and people get the chance to try again. Jal hasn't that much of a conflict potential as Jorg did, so maybe more people will enjoy it. I like that Jal once again is a unusual character. A "hero" that is a total coward and only serves his own best interest. Very entertaining to read the story through his eyes as it's first person narrative again. Together with his nordic sidekick Snorri Ver Snagason, he travels through the post apocalyptic Europe entertain with lot's of dark humor, a fast paced story and great characters. Even if you didn't like Prince of Thornes I highly recommend you give Prince of Fools a try!
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4.5* After the amazing conclusion of one of my all time favorite series, The Broken Empire Trilogy, Mark Lawrence now published the first book of his new series The Red Queen's War and I couldn't wait to get my hands on this one. Set in the same world as TBE it plays out parallel to Prince of Thorns and readers of the first series get a few eastereggs and crossovers, but it's in no way necessary to read the previous books to understand these. That is actually a very clever move by Mark Lawrence, Jorg wasn't every ones cup of tea, you either hate him or love him. In my goodreads friend list the opinions really go only these two directions and thus many people didn't read the other two books. But here we get a restart with a totally different character and people get the chance to try again. Jal hasn't that much of a conflict potential as Jorg did, so maybe more people will enjoy it. I like that Jal once again is a unusual character. A "hero" that is a total coward and only serves his own best interest. Very entertaining to read the story through his eyes as it's first person narrative again. Together with his nordic sidekick Snorri Ver Snagason, he travels through the post apocalyptic Europe entertain with lot's of dark humor, a fast paced story and great characters. Even if you didn't like Prince of Thornes I highly recommend you give Prince of Fools a try!