3.5-- really..

Back into the world Lawrence built. I really enjoyed my tromp around the grimdark of Jorg and was looking tentatively forward to more of the world the Builder's left. Where magic and the erroded history of science exist in something more of a dark renaissance period.

Where Jorg was dark, brooding, mean, mad, and vengeful--Jalan is an aristocratic fluffer who wants to milk titles and stories so he can bed, gamble, and enjoy his stature in life.

His adventure that his Grandmother the Red Queen, and her Silent Sister send her on will be the test of him.

His travelling companion Snorri, off to the Winter wastes for some good ol Nordic vengence finds us in line of long debates of running away and then accidental heroics.

The book made me smile more times than not, and again reading more of the world I so enjoyed but little understood in the Prince of Thorns series has been well worth my time. I am curious now where this leads...