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Prince of Fools Red Queen’s War Book 1 Red Queen War eBook Mark Lawrence

When I first saw that Mark Lawrence was releasing a new trilogy of books in the same world as the Broken Empire Trilogy but in a previously unseen area with all new characters, I wasn't 100% sold on the idea as I really enjoyed Jorg in the first series. However, after spending a couple of chapters with the new viewpoint character, the Vagabond Prince Jalan and his counter-part the Honorable Viking Snorri, I was all in with this series. Jalan is the youngest son of the youngest song of the infamous Red Queen, and he's so far down the line of succession that he can spend all of his time drinking, gambling, and seducing all of the women at court. At the beginning of the book, he's had a series of bad bets and is heavily in debt to the wrong person, and decides to bring the impressive Viking slave, who had just won his freedom by giving an account of the movements of the Red Queen's enemies, to the underground fighting ring as repayment. What followed was a horrible series of events, where the two of them broke the trap set by the Silent Sister (the Red Queen's secret magical advisor) for a Powerful Undead Agent hiding in plain sight, mistakenly letting it escape while entwining the two souls of Jalan and Snorri together with opposing forces of light and darkness. This is the beginning of an epic journey where they attempt to undo the spell while gaining vengeance on the people that killed Snorri's family and his entire village.

I had a lot of fun with this book, and I honestly think that Prince of Fools is an great introduction to Mark Lawrence's excellent writing, perhaps better than Prince of Thorns. The viewpoint character of Jalan is much more likeable than Jorg, especially on the outset, and even though he can be a coward, he also shows a lot of heroic tendencies. I also loved the interplay between Jalan and Snorri, which was incredibly entertaining and reminded me of a classic buddy cop pairing, but with swords/axes and sorcery instead of guns and mustaches. I would recommend this book and the whole series to any fan of Fantasy, and I think it could be a good intro to Fantasy to a reader that's new to it, as Lawrence really knows how to turn a phrase. His writing is definitely well above average for the Fantasy World of Books, and this book and series cemented him as one of my favorite authors.


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Prince of Fools Red Queen’s War Book 1 Red Queen War eBook Mark Lawrence Reviews

The Prince of Fools, narrator of this tale is as witty and lively as the Prince of Thorns. And that wit kept the novel entertaining to an impressive degree - BUT, it did not completely make up for a serious flaw in this novel - that there just isn't anything at stake for the hero.

In the broken empire trilogy, the hero is on the knife edge - a murderer and a hero - and I thought this difficult feat was completely successful. I was enthralled. In this first book of the Red Queen's War, the Prince is on the knife edge of ass and hero. In those moments where that knife edge is most apparent, the book is really good. The rest of the time I was a bit bored as he lives adventures of a quest the higher purpose of which is a veiled in mystery and he is determined not to care about. The result is, I don't care much about it either.

Towards the end, I skimmed a lot, hoping that I'd get more of the good stuff (the fool/hero -- hopefully with ever more hero) in the next book, and needing to finish this one in order to be up to date for the next one.

So I'm going to pick up the next one. But if it's more of the same, I might just put it down.
Its impossible to write original fantasy these days. All of the archetypes have been created and the hero's journey is a well-trod road, "worn smooth by the passages of time" - as they say. What's a gifted writer like Mark Lawrence to do?

In his Broken Empire trilogy, Lawrence wrote a trilogy where the hero of the book would have been the antagonist in any other. Good men were slain; heroes of their people just fodder who had the poor misfortune of being in young Jorg's quest for revenge. In Prince of Fools, Lawrence takes another interesting spin on things we have the story as viewed by the sidekick. This is the grimdark version of Big Trouble in Little China, where our protagonist Prince Jalan is pulled (literally and unwillingly) along with the story of Snorri, a viking on his own dark mission of vengeance. Like Jack Burton, who just wanted his truck back, Jalan just wants a curse lifted so he could return to his business of boozing and carousing.

Sure, the sidekick as the hero has been done before (another comparison could be made to Michael Crichton's The 13th Warrior), but rarely is the unwilling hero of the story so unwillingly unrepentant as Jalan and rarer still is it told by someone who has as much care for his words as Lawrence.

Those who loved the Broken Empire trology primarily due to Jorg's take no prisoners attitude will have little in the way of patience or love for Jalan. But those who have a love of prose and character building should definitely pick this one up.
When I first saw that Mark Lawrence was releasing a new trilogy of books in the same world as the Broken Empire Trilogy but in a previously unseen area with all new characters, I wasn't 100% sold on the idea as I really enjoyed Jorg in the first series. However, after spending a couple of chapters with the new viewpoint character, the Vagabond Prince Jalan and his counter-part the Honorable Viking Snorri, I was all in with this series. Jalan is the youngest son of the youngest song of the infamous Red Queen, and he's so far down the line of succession that he can spend all of his time drinking, gambling, and seducing all of the women at court. At the beginning of the book, he's had a series of bad bets and is heavily in debt to the wrong person, and decides to bring the impressive Viking slave, who had just won his freedom by giving an account of the movements of the Red Queen's enemies, to the underground fighting ring as repayment. What followed was a horrible series of events, where the two of them broke the trap set by the Silent Sister (the Red Queen's secret magical advisor) for a Powerful Undead Agent hiding in plain sight, mistakenly letting it escape while entwining the two souls of Jalan and Snorri together with opposing forces of light and darkness. This is the beginning of an epic journey where they attempt to undo the spell while gaining vengeance on the people that killed Snorri's family and his entire village.

I had a lot of fun with this book, and I honestly think that Prince of Fools is an great introduction to Mark Lawrence's excellent writing, perhaps better than Prince of Thorns. The viewpoint character of Jalan is much more likeable than Jorg, especially on the outset, and even though he can be a coward, he also shows a lot of heroic tendencies. I also loved the interplay between Jalan and Snorri, which was incredibly entertaining and reminded me of a classic buddy cop pairing, but with swords/axes and sorcery instead of guns and mustaches. I would recommend this book and the whole series to any fan of Fantasy, and I think it could be a good intro to Fantasy to a reader that's new to it, as Lawrence really knows how to turn a phrase. His writing is definitely well above average for the Fantasy World of Books, and this book and series cemented him as one of my favorite authors.