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4.09 AVERAGE
4.09 AVERAGE
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
If you have read the Prince of Thorns and King of Thorns, this book will break your heart and fascinate you. Darker, heart-wrenching secrets from Jorg’s past are revealed and you get to face Jorg’s demons. I thought I faced them in King of Thorns, but I was wrong.
The Broken Empire as a whole is revolutionary. You will not find any of the typical fantasy tropes, or if you find them you will hardly recognize them, since Mark Lawrence is quite the cliche-breaker. Where he doesn’t break the cliches, he bends them into such angles they no longer qualify as cliches. If someone told me that someone wrote medieval fantasy set in the future times, included advanced technology in it and broke every single trope out there, I would raise an eyebrow and say “How can that even work?” But yet it works and so wonderfully at that.
Read the full review here: http://grimdarkalliance.com/blog/2015/05/02/emperor-of-thorns-the-broken-empire-3-by-mark-lawrence/#comment-102
The Broken Empire as a whole is revolutionary. You will not find any of the typical fantasy tropes, or if you find them you will hardly recognize them, since Mark Lawrence is quite the cliche-breaker. Where he doesn’t break the cliches, he bends them into such angles they no longer qualify as cliches. If someone told me that someone wrote medieval fantasy set in the future times, included advanced technology in it and broke every single trope out there, I would raise an eyebrow and say “How can that even work?” But yet it works and so wonderfully at that.
Read the full review here: http://grimdarkalliance.com/blog/2015/05/02/emperor-of-thorns-the-broken-empire-3-by-mark-lawrence/#comment-102
I liked Red Sister and that whole series and wanted to like this one, but there are two things that really killed this trilogy for me:
1. I hated the ending. It was one of those books where you hit 80% and it starts ruining your life because you can't put it down. 80% through the last book of a trilogy and I was staying up until 5am to finish the story. Excellent! But the ending! WTF. It felt like such a predictable cop-out ending. I hated it. If it had happened in book one I would have DNF'd the series. I feel a bit swindled today.
2. I couldn't stomach the animal abuse. It was beyond disgusting and while I understand the point, it was just too much. I thought we had gotten past it and then BAM, here we are again at dog torture in book three. Ugh. Useful for motivations or not, it was just too dark and who wants to read that kind of stuff?
Those two things mean I won't recommend the series, but I suppose I otherwise found it interesting. It's one of the few series where I enjoyed the printed copies more than the audiobook versions, and I had to hunt those down as none of my four libraries had a copy of book 3 on audio.
1. I hated the ending. It was one of those books where you hit 80% and it starts ruining your life because you can't put it down. 80% through the last book of a trilogy and I was staying up until 5am to finish the story. Excellent! But the ending! WTF. It felt like such a predictable cop-out ending. I hated it. If it had happened in book one I would have DNF'd the series. I feel a bit swindled today.
2. I couldn't stomach the animal abuse. It was beyond disgusting and while I understand the point, it was just too much. I thought we had gotten past it and then BAM, here we are again at dog torture in book three. Ugh. Useful for motivations or not, it was just too dark and who wants to read that kind of stuff?
Those two things mean I won't recommend the series, but I suppose I otherwise found it interesting. It's one of the few series where I enjoyed the printed copies more than the audiobook versions, and I had to hunt those down as none of my four libraries had a copy of book 3 on audio.
Book 1 and 2 were quite decent, but book 3 was, unfortunately, a letdown for me. For half of the book I really didn't care about the story. There were some chapters that I found interesting again but then there would come five chapters I couldn't care less about. The pacing was off...it felt rushed where it didn't need to be rushed, and in moments where the story could have benefited from a faster pace, it was incredibly slow. I was also not satisfied with the ending. I'm okay with what happened to Jorg but the whole Finale was pretty underwhelming.
dark
hopeful
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I was not disappointed, at all, with the end of this brilliant trilogy. It felt extremely true to Jorg, who I went from despising to rooting for. I liked the plot progression, the character growth and the writing (all of which were really good in all 3 novels). I can't say much else other than I loved it and highly recommend the entire series.
Detailed review on my blog! https://navigatingneverland.org/2016/12/01/emperor-of-thorns-broken-empire-3-by-mark-lawrence/
Wow….just wow. This was a fantastic ending to a unique, dark, fantasy series! I couldn’t believe how it ended and I just loved almost everything about the book! The plot was magnificently entertaining and almost entirely unpredictable. Jorg and those closest to him were developed very well throughout the series, but I still didn’t like his road-brothers all that much, besides Makin. The writing wasn’t anything spectacular but there was also nothing wrong with it and I love the cover! This is one of those series I am most definitely going to have to read again.
Wow….just wow. This was a fantastic ending to a unique, dark, fantasy series! I couldn’t believe how it ended and I just loved almost everything about the book! The plot was magnificently entertaining and almost entirely unpredictable. Jorg and those closest to him were developed very well throughout the series, but I still didn’t like his road-brothers all that much, besides Makin. The writing wasn’t anything spectacular but there was also nothing wrong with it and I love the cover! This is one of those series I am most definitely going to have to read again.
adventurous
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
As a teachers this is the first time I read a book that ends with "and it was all just a dream"