The Ruin of Kings - PFFT Reads

No cover — Jenn Lyons: The Ruin of Kings (Paperback, Tor)

Paperback, 560 pages

Published by Tor.

ISBN:: 978-1-5098-7949-6

(1 review)

Kihrin is a bastard orphan who grew up on storybook tales of long-lost princes and grand quests. When he is claimed against his will as the long-lost son of a treasonous prince, Kihrin finds that being a long-lost prince isn't what the storybooks promised.

Far from living the dream, Kihrin finds himself practically a prisoner, at the mercy of his new family's power plays and ambitions. He also discovers that the storybooks have lied about a lot of other things too: dragons, demons, gods, prophecies, true love, and how the hero always wins.

Then again, maybe he's not the hero, for Kihrin is not destined to save the empire.

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Øyvind reviewed The Ruin of Kings by Jenn Lyons (A Chorus of Dragons, #1)

An interesting world written in an interesting style

5 stars

Content warning Spoilers on writing style ahead.

It's an interesting book with so many details and reveals that it's probably worth reading it a second time to get to see how many things that were hiding in plain sight that one missed on the initial read of the book. How the story is presented is similar and probably inspired by ||The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss||, the one big downside of this style of writing is that the we know certain things from the start of the story, ||like that the storyteller won't die.|| Other than that is it an interesting and well paced story with quite a few surprises.