King of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #2)

by Mark Lawrence

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I enjoyed this more than Prince of Thorns. The addition of Katherines story was a nice touch, I really liked her and so of course it was difficult to read her parts. Miana was amazing, truly, and I was concerned about what was going to happen there - but I was surprised in a good way. I really liked the fact that this book showed us that Jorg is actually capable of making friends, he is not just a killer, he can play politics too. Which is kind of important when it comes to being royalty and all.

In most books that have multiple perspectives or timelines I find myself liking at least one more than others, and hating one more than others too. Meaning I dread certain perspectives or timelines. Mark does a good job of keeping both timelines and Katherines story interesting enough that I was annoyed every time the perspective/time shifted, but then immediately I would be happy with the shift because that's right its got this thing I really want to know about.

That memory box added a nice kind of mystery to the story that keeps you on your toes, wondering, wondering, trying to figure it all out. The only thing is that I don't really get how he didn't know what happened. Yes he took the memory of it, but he surely would have heard about it, from other people, he would have heard the story of it, so he surely would have known at least in part. I don't know, maybe it's explained in the final book, but I can't see how it can be explained.

No matter, I really enjoyed this one and I am looking forward to reading the next one tonight.