Lawrence never tells the reader either of those things. And don’t even bother to ask how he actually gets a thousand year old Builder’s tool in book two, or how a thousand year old tool would still even work. Of course, the negative issues with those powers – as shown clearly by their affect on other characters in the novels – miraculously leave Jorg unaffected. In King of Thorns, Jorg gets new, updated necromancer powers, fire-magic skill and Builder tools exactly when he needs them to SAVE HIS ASS YET AGAIN! To be specific, in Prince of Thorns, Jorg was given necromancer power that kept him alive when a normal man would have died.

However, whenever he needs it, Jorg miraculously discovers some new superpower (magic, science, math, or whatever) to save his ass. Things look really grim for Jorg many times. Lawrence writes our favorite sociopath into situations where no reasonable person can expect success. In the first book and now the second, Mr. Lawrence continued his trend of what I like to call: the superpower of the day solution to problems. I could write a multi page review about everything I disliked about this book, but in short, the storytelling was lacking, the character growth was non-existent, the plot had glaring holes, and Mr. In any event, since the “shock” value of Jorg didn’t overwhelm me this go round, I found myself focusing a great deal on the story itself, which quite honestly was a bit underwhelming. However, I did not find this novel as engrossing, perhaps because I’ve grown somewhat use to the main character’s sociopathic behavior.

While I despised Jorg in Prince of Thorns, the story itself was highly entertaining and kept me turning pages as quickly as I could read them. Publisher: Harper Voyager (April 25, 2013)

King of thorns by mark lawrence