Oh, how to I start ... This is Mark Lawrence's first full
length novel, PRINCE OF THORNS and I pre-ordered the second
in the series about half way through reading the first one.
The most entertaining, page turning, real and just plain
exciting book I have read in ages.
Ages that is a good place to start. The protagonist is a
young boy; he is not even ten years old when the book starts
with the most horrible event a young boy can witness. This
event changes and shapes our young Jorg and it is how his
life starts also. Jorg is a Prince. I am not giving anything
away here were I tell you about this event, it happens in
the first pages, the journey after that is the true story of
hardship, manipulation, sorcery, Kings, love, castles and of
men who know nothing but a hard life on the road, Brothers.
Jorg was on the road with his mother, the Queen and his
younger bother William. There was a great love between them
and the evil men of King Renar destroy that with a violence
that should not even be in nightmares. Torture, but before
Jorg could be captured his guard threw Jorg into a thorn
bush, not just any thorn bush either, but a hook thorn bush
that people avoid at all cost. The guard threw Jorg in deep
and the more Jorg struggled the deeper the hook thorns bit
into his flesh, all the way down to the bone. He watched
everyone die and he struggled trough pain unbelievable to
help his mother and his younger brother.
Renar's men did find him eventually in the bush and a few
suffered the thorns to try to reach him, but they could not
and would not risk themselves. His father's men cut it out
piece by piece hurting both Jorg and themselves to get him
out, it took a very long time. You can easily say that the
hook thorns not only buried themselves into Jorg's flesh,
but also into his mind. He will carry the mental and
physical scars for life.
So here the story begins of young Prince Jorg who leaves
everything behind to live on the roads and seek vengeance.
He says that by thirteen he will be King and by fifteen he
will rule the Empire. When Jorg says something, trust it
will happen.
So now Jorge and his band of Brothers roam the road, taking
what they need. So young a boy to lead men like these, men
hardened by prison, starvation, torture and lives that no
one really cares about.
Prince Jorg is changed, you will root for him, you will be
stunned by what he does, how incredibly intelligent his is
and to what lengths he will go. What does he want? Even he
does not know at first but when the true Jorg emerges he is
unstoppable.
One of the best reads ever. It made my top five best books
easily. Thank you Mark Lawrence. PRINCE OF THORNS is a truly
great novel.
When he was nine, he watched his mother and brother killed
before him. By the time he was thirteen, he was the leader
of a band of bloodthirsty thugs. By fifteen, he intends to
be king...
It's time for Prince Honorous Jorg Ancrath to return to the
castle he turned his back on, to take what's rightfully
his. Since the day he was hung on the thorns of a briar
patch and forced to watch Count Renar's men slaughter his
mother and young brother, Jorg has been driven to vent his
rage. Life and death are no more than a game to him-and he
has nothing left to lose.
But treachery awaits him in his father's castle. Treachery
and dark magic. No matter how fierce, can the will of one
young man conquer enemies with power beyond his imagining?
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