Prince of Fools

The story has great worldbuilding and writing and I enjoyed it but I cant stand the MC even in the next book he goes through something that you think would mature or harden him up a little then nope he gets even worse every other character has deep personalities and traits but the Jals only lasting trait is that hes a coward and idiot. its just that the mc doesnt grow I get into it then get totally thrown off.. i recommend reading it just I wanted to quit reading it many times due to Jal.

Utterly disappointing. If the point was to build a book around a callow, irritating, and flippant main character, then that was achieved.Unfortunately that describes the entire book. Would have been worth three stars if edited down to half the length. The pacing of the actual writing begins to grate after the first few chapters; set up, set up, cliched punch line. Repeat. The plot is plodding and predictable.I finished this book in anger, paging ahead , reading a sentence or two, sadly picking the story up half a chapter later with no problem. This author brought us the Prince of Thorns? I will regrettably not be following this series any further..... Okay, it's a year later and I read it again, and this time I loved it? I found it funny and charming and I have no idea why it rubbed me the wrong way initially. I must not really have read it, because I didn't remeber most of it so this second reading was like a first. Strange.

I would highly recommend reading the Broken Empire Trilogy prior to this one. There is certainly a lot going on that I think you may be lost on if you don't. That being said, I absolutely loved the Broken Empire's characters and story. This one took me a bit to latch on to, but it's an interesting read filled with magic, mayhem and undead. I've come to expect unique characters from Mark Lawrence and Jalan is another prime example of one.