The Broken Empire 1. Prince of Thorns

Uh, so Jorg raped his aunt? Let's ignore that? Anyway, Jorg was pretty much doing everything but working on his main goal - which apparently wasn't even his? Makes kinda sense tho. (And he fucking bombed Gelleth lol) At least I now understand why this series is dystopian dark fantasy - since it's basically post apocalyptic europe (with radioactive substance leaking bombs it seems)

Ein sehr guter Einstieg in eine sehr interessante Fantasie Welt mit einigen sehr interessanten kleinen Twists und Wendungen. Dazu einen sehr tollen Haupcharakter.

Having read The Book of the Ancestor series last year and absolutely l loved them, I was hesitant to read The Broken Empire. Tried was because I was lead to believe that BOA was a step up from BE. So I assumed I would be disappointed. What clicked with me and made me take the plunge was reading that Mark Lawrence based Jorg, our brutal protagonist on Alex from Anthony Burges' A Clockwork Orange. I had also heard that the reason why people didn't consider it as good as BOA was that they couldn't connect to study a horrible protagonist. It would be interesting to know, had I read Prince of Thorns without knowing this tidbit of trivia, whether I would have fallen into the trap of misunderstanding this book as others had. But I do definitely feel that this knowledge greatly enhanced my understanding and therefore enjoyment of the book. I would even go as far as saying I might even like it better than BOA, and that's saying something!