Book Review: Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawrence

Prince of Thorns is a story featuring a wholly unlikable character with few redeeming qualities.  Even as a product of adversity, Jorg is hard to identify or commiserate with.  He's a character who knows he is doing wrong, and delights in it. He turns away from humanity and remorse at almost every turn. The saving grace for this book is Mark Lawrence's beautiful writing and the fascinating world he has constructed. I only wish that he had chosen to provide the reader with a better guide to that world.

Book Review: Sand - Hugh Howey

Hugh Howey’s Sand is a slow burn through a post-apocalyptic wasteland.  It shows us that the author has many different visions of the future to share with us. It’s a story about family, loss and abandonment and how the different ways people handle adversity. Read it if you like Dune, Mad Max or Snow Crash.



I read the Kindle In Motion version of Wool three years ago, and haven't gone back to Hugh Howey until now. That mistake is on me. I found Sand at the Seattle Public Library and grabbed it to tide me over until some of my book holds came in.

What a great ride this was. What a unique vision of the future. Some authors engage in world building, giving greater importance to the world they are building than the characters that inhabit them. But Hugh Howey treats the world right and the authors with respect.  We experience the world through the eyes of the characters and the world slowly constructs itself around them as the bits of information assemble themselves.

★★★★☆ I highly recommend this book. You won't be disappointed.

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