Synopsis:
King Jorg Ancrath is twenty now—and king of seven nations. His goal—revenge against his father—has not yet been realized, and the demons that haunt him have only grown stronger. Yet no matter how tortured his path, he intends to take the next step in his upward climb.
Jorg would be emperor. It is a position not to be gained by the sword but rather by vote. And never in living memory has anyone secured a majority of the vote, leaving the Broken Empire long without a leader. Jorg plans to change that. He’s uncovered the lost technology of the land, and he won’t hesitate to use it.
But he soon finds an adversary standing in his way, a necromancer unlike any he has ever faced—a figure hated and feared even more than himself: the Dead King.
Review:
”Dark times call for dark choices. Choose me.”
If you haven’t read the Prince of Thorns, King or Thorns or Emperor of Thorns, I just have to ask where the hell have you been?
This series is by far the best fantasy series I have ever read and probably will ever read in my life and I beg you to read it. You won’t regret it.
The final book in the series is centred around my favourite psycho Jorg Ancrath who is now King with the goal of being Emperor. Not only is Jorg a natural born leader, collecting a gathering of rogues, thieves and murderers and setting their set skills to his advantage along the way. When our twisted character sets his mind to something, nothing will get in his way, he will crush towns, murder children, and rape woman when the mood suits. And with all that in mind he still maintains honour where possible. For instance, Jorg remains by his wife, who was acquired from an arranged marriage. They share no love, trust nor desire but their relationship is one of trust and goals. Though Miana does start off as a dull flower compared to Jorg, her personality, determination and fury does rise to the surface when they both share the determination to protect their unborn child.
Again I cannot stress my love for twisted characters and Jorg literally holds the flame. Aside from Jorg, all the characters in this series are fantastic and hard to flaw.
The world, like the previous two books, is divine and leaves so many questions in your mind and leaves you wanting to devour more. This series after all is the pinnacle of fantasy and I doubt that there will ever be another fantasy book that would come close to the power this book has. I work with a few readers at work who are not even fantasy readers and yet they devoured this series and like me, demanded more. Which begs the question, are we sure Mark Lawrence isn’t a god?
The only thing that I didn’t like about Emperor of Thorns is the ending. On the most part because of how the journey of Jorg ended. Personally if there were 50 books in this series they would all be devilishly brilliant and I am still torn about why it had to end. Literally I finished this book two months ago and it has taken me ages to put this review to paper and I still think about how this could have been more than three books. I still crave more.
There are no faults to be found in this book, no matter how much you try. It is work of an absolute legend and Mark Lawrence has grown to be one of my favourite writers of all time, even though he tore the black mass of a heart from my chest and crushed it, even though I hope this isn’t the end of Jorg Ancrath.
Rating: 5/5
Publisher: Ace
ISBN: 978045256855