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Prince of Fools
by Mark Lawrence
4.5 Stars
First read November 28 to December 4, 2014
Second read June 27 to 29, 2016.
While Prince Jorg and his not so merry band of brothers were making their way back to Ancrath to give Jorg back his thrones, Prince Jalan of the Red March was dealing with his own set of problems. Fond of drinking, gambling and bedding women, Jalan's main problems in life is avoiding his grandmother The Red Queen and her necromancer sidekick The Silent Sister and figuring out how to repay his growing debts to a man fond of breaking fingers. Then one day Jalal meets Viking Snorri Snagason and the two become entrenched in a spell of darkness and light meaning they can't be too far apart from one another. Jalan is now on a journey back to the snowy mountains of the North to help Snorri on a revenge mission while also hoping to figure out how to break the spells, with their lives intact.
I think I definitely prefer The Red Queen's War better than The Broken Empire trilogy (so far) as Jalan is basically everything Jorg could have been if Jorg didn't have such darkness in his past and so much baggage in his present. Prince Jalan has no wishes to be King, he's happy being a prince and simply living as Princes do. He's more inclined to run away from a fight than run towards it but at the same time he's possesses that same, warped kind of honor that Jorg has. He ends up becoming a pretty good companion for Snorri, he doesn't kill willy-nilly and he treats his horses with respect and love. I really liked reading his perspective on things and there's always a thread of humor throughout the story that keeps it light enough despite all the dead people rising and killing of quintuplets.
Being so fresh from my reread of The Broken Empire trilogy, I was really happy to be able to recognise the cameos of characters I met with Jorg like Taproot and his circus, as well as Jorg himself, Makin and the brothers (and one sister - Brother Emmer?).
I can't wait to finally get to The Liar's Key and the Wheel of Osheim as Jalan and Snorri are definitely one of my favourite partnerships to read about. I wouldn't mind more of Tuttugu too!
First read November 28 to December 4, 2014
Second read June 27 to 29, 2016.
While Prince Jorg and his not so merry band of brothers were making their way back to Ancrath to give Jorg back his thrones, Prince Jalan of the Red March was dealing with his own set of problems. Fond of drinking, gambling and bedding women, Jalan's main problems in life is avoiding his grandmother The Red Queen and her necromancer sidekick The Silent Sister and figuring out how to repay his growing debts to a man fond of breaking fingers. Then one day Jalal meets Viking Snorri Snagason and the two become entrenched in a spell of darkness and light meaning they can't be too far apart from one another. Jalan is now on a journey back to the snowy mountains of the North to help Snorri on a revenge mission while also hoping to figure out how to break the spells, with their lives intact.
I think I definitely prefer The Red Queen's War better than The Broken Empire trilogy (so far) as Jalan is basically everything Jorg could have been if Jorg didn't have such darkness in his past and so much baggage in his present. Prince Jalan has no wishes to be King, he's happy being a prince and simply living as Princes do. He's more inclined to run away from a fight than run towards it but at the same time he's possesses that same, warped kind of honor that Jorg has. He ends up becoming a pretty good companion for Snorri, he doesn't kill willy-nilly and he treats his horses with respect and love. I really liked reading his perspective on things and there's always a thread of humor throughout the story that keeps it light enough despite all the dead people rising and killing of quintuplets.
Being so fresh from my reread of The Broken Empire trilogy, I was really happy to be able to recognise the cameos of characters I met with Jorg like Taproot and his circus, as well as Jorg himself, Makin and the brothers (and one sister - Brother Emmer?).
I can't wait to finally get to The Liar's Key and the Wheel of Osheim as Jalan and Snorri are definitely one of my favourite partnerships to read about. I wouldn't mind more of Tuttugu too!