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A review by scrollsofdragons
The Liar’s Key by Mark Lawrence
4.0
I honestly love Prince Jalen. And admire his guts because it takes some to say I am a coward. Because in one's life, there is always going to be cowardice in you and you aren't going to be one to admit it. But Jalen, he knows what he is and he lives life how he is and he tells it how he is. He puts his hand up and says, I'm a coward, and you just better get used to it.
He makes me laugh so much sometimes with the things he could come out with. And when he dreams of being king, he's like I will get rid of that, I will make this that, regardless of the anarchy that would cause. He would never make it to king, like ever but it's cute that he can think that.
In this book we get thrown into the past via Jalen's memories where his grandmother, the red queen when she was just a princess with her broken twin siblings. The trio are so damm powerful and ambitious and ruthless and I loved stepping into their past and have much more appreciation for the red queen now.
The bromance is just as strong and we had the addition of Tuttugu and these three guys friendship, it is just the best ever, I swear.
This book was so damm riveting, at times I could just not put it down. In fact, hard to put down at any point to be honest. Every page is not wasted, it's just the perfect page length at a steady flowing pace.
I can't rate it five stars because the world is still a little confusing to me. Like I know, the broken empire was rebuilt when our earth we live in was destroyed so yes, it would turn the whole process made on earth back to the start with only a few remainders left behind. One of these, includes robots and this device thing that Alicia used sixty years ago, so how far was earth along in it's civilization when it fell? And how exactly did it fall, don't hear much explanation on that.
Also, how many brothers and fathers want to go at Jal for sleeping with their daughters/sisters. Even a husband of a woman whom Jal used to have sex with, challenges him to a duel, like what the fuck? The women choose to sleep with Jal, get mad at them if you have to, not him, even though you shouldn't because a woman reserves the right to sleep with whom they like without your judgement. The brother of one of Jal's ex lovers even goes as far as to say that his sister couldn't put up a resistance against him, like you legit saying he assaulted her? She did it of her own record for fuck sake. Let it go. The treatment of women is horrendous, I swear.
In this we hear a fair bit about Jorg who has his own series and I will never read it, I wasn't interested before but after hearing about him, god he sounds awful. Already hate the guy, no way am I touching his story.
He makes me laugh so much sometimes with the things he could come out with. And when he dreams of being king, he's like I will get rid of that, I will make this that, regardless of the anarchy that would cause. He would never make it to king, like ever but it's cute that he can think that.
In this book we get thrown into the past via Jalen's memories where his grandmother, the red queen when she was just a princess with her broken twin siblings. The trio are so damm powerful and ambitious and ruthless and I loved stepping into their past and have much more appreciation for the red queen now.
The bromance is just as strong and we had the addition of Tuttugu and these three guys friendship, it is just the best ever, I swear.
This book was so damm riveting, at times I could just not put it down. In fact, hard to put down at any point to be honest. Every page is not wasted, it's just the perfect page length at a steady flowing pace.
I can't rate it five stars because the world is still a little confusing to me. Like I know, the broken empire was rebuilt when our earth we live in was destroyed so yes, it would turn the whole process made on earth back to the start with only a few remainders left behind. One of these, includes robots and this device thing that Alicia used sixty years ago, so how far was earth along in it's civilization when it fell? And how exactly did it fall, don't hear much explanation on that.
Also, how many brothers and fathers want to go at Jal for sleeping with their daughters/sisters. Even a husband of a woman whom Jal used to have sex with, challenges him to a duel, like what the fuck? The women choose to sleep with Jal, get mad at them if you have to, not him, even though you shouldn't because a woman reserves the right to sleep with whom they like without your judgement. The brother of one of Jal's ex lovers even goes as far as to say that his sister couldn't put up a resistance against him, like you legit saying he assaulted her? She did it of her own record for fuck sake. Let it go. The treatment of women is horrendous, I swear.
In this we hear a fair bit about Jorg who has his own series and I will never read it, I wasn't interested before but after hearing about him, god he sounds awful. Already hate the guy, no way am I touching his story.