Review: King of Thorns

King of Thorns by Mark Lawrence
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

King of Thorns is a very interesting and well-crafted combination of the sense of Blood Meridian into a fairly standard medieval fantasy setting, then throws in a fascinating backstory, good tactics, zombies, Freddy-level nightmare horror, blood and gore, black humor, gripping drama, and some really good writing that keeps what would have been fundamentally evil and unpleasant characters likeable and what would have been fundamentally good traditional and non-traditional protagonists and goals, the wrong option.
It turns a lot of things around on their heads - and is all the better for it.

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