A review by iamshadow
The Briar King by Greg Keyes

5.0

I picked up The Briar King from a bargain bin, and was pleasantly surprised to find a genuinely good fantasy book. Having existed in tamed and relative peace for centuries, the land starts to awaken, and grim and perilous creatures begin to roam the the land. Assassination plagues the royal family of Dare, and a priest, a green country knight and a woodsman are all somehow tied to mankind's fate. A genuinely good tale of dark fantasy, for likers of Robert Jordan, for example.