Review Blog – The Wheel of Osheim by Mark Lawrence

Review Blog – The Wheel of Osheim by Mark Lawrence

If you keep up with my reviews it will be no secret that I struggled through both Prince of Fools and Liar’s Key. Not because I didn’t like the story, but because I didn’t like the main character, Jalan. So I was trying to decide why it was I...
Review Blog – The Liar’s Key by Mark Lawrence

Review Blog – The Liar’s Key by Mark Lawrence

  Mark Lawrence continues to make my reviewing his books harder with the second in his Red Queen’s War trilogy. What does that mean? Well it means I felt this book has some quite major flaws, it does a few things wrong… but when it does them right it...
The Problem With Flashbacks

The Problem With Flashbacks

I’ll admit it. My current WIP has flashbacks. I’m using them as a way to provide necessary backstory for the protagonist while also linking the events of the past to narrative of the present. Then again the entire thing is told from the future so...
Review Blog – Prince of Fools by Mark Lawrence

Review Blog – Prince of Fools by Mark Lawrence

  I must admit I keep struggling to sort the review for this one in my head because I keep comparing it to Broken Empire and I really shouldn’t. Bad Rob. So Prince of Fools is set in the world Mark (Lawrence) created with his Broken Empire trilogy. In fact...