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Review: “The Liar’s Key” by Mark Lawrence
I’ve been spending time lately in Mark Lawrence’s Broken Empire, and perhaps my favorite sojourn to date was The Red Queen’s War Book 2, The Liar’s Key.
The “Liar” in question is the god Loki, whom we meet in an intriguing prologue set deep in the past inside a Silo-like facility where survivors of a nuclear holocaust—called the Day of a Thousand Suns by the time the main story takes pl
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| “The Liar’s Key” might be my favorite stop yet in Mark Lawrence’s Broken Empire. The story follows cowardly yet charming Prince Jalan Kendeth and his Viking companion Snorri as they travel across the Broken Empire with a key that can open any door. S ...more | |
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| In “King of Thorns,” Mark Lawrence delivers a brutal yet brilliant follow-up to “Prince of Thorns.” Jorg Ancrath remains ruthless, but this time his struggle with guilt, ambition, and a haunting secret makes him both more compelling and strangely sym ...more | |
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| Joe Abercrombie’s “The Devils” is the best fantasy novel I’ve read so far this year. It’s hilarious, brutal, fast-paced, and full of heart. The premise: a young monk is ordered to lead a team of magically bound monsters—vampire, werewolf, necromancer ...more | |
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| I picked up “The Ludwig Conspiracy” before a trip to Bavaria, and it turned out to be a great blend of mystery, history, and travel inspiration. The plot alternates between modern-day Munich, where a reclusive bookseller uncovers a dangerous secret, ...more | |
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| I loved Richard Swan’s “Empire of the Wolf” trilogy, so I was excited to dive into “Grave Empire,” set in the same world centuries later. It lacks the heroic characters of the original series—there’s no Sir Konrad Vonvalt to anchor the story—but the ...more | |
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| Joe Abercrombie’s Last Argument of Kings wraps up the First Law Trilogy with a bang—and plenty of blood. The storylines come crashing together as Logen Ninefingers fights Bethod in the North, while Bayaz, Glokta, and the rest brace for the siege of A ...more | |
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| “Camelot” is a powerful addition to Giles Kristian’s Arthurian trilogy, told through the eyes of Galahad, the son of Lancelot. Raised in a monastery, Galahad is drawn into a perilous quest that brings him face to face with Arthur, Merlin, Guinevere, ...more | |
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| I tore through “Before They Are Hanged” right after finishing “The Blade Itself.” The plot is tighter, but Abercrombie still keeps things delightfully character-driven. Bayaz’s quest dives deep into the world’s rich history, Glokta remains the snarky ...more | |
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| After reading “Arthur” by Giles Kristian, I immediately picked up “Lancelot,” and it did not disappoint. Told from Lancelot’s perspective, this novel offers a uniquely intimate portrayal of the legendary warrior and a fresh take on his tragic love st ...more | |
“One event that is both history and myth is the rain of blood around the year 1000 in Aquitaine and elsewhere in France. Reports exist from the early eleventh century of a blood rain that “fell upon the clothes of many men, and so stained them with gore that they shuddered at the sight of their own garments and tore them off.” Fulbert of Chartres wrote that account in a letter to King Robert of France, after the worried king received a report from Duke William V about a rain of blood that fell in Aquitaine. Scientists today believe that historical reports of blood rain may have been due to dust containing iron oxide,”
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“The Book of Enoch is an ancient Jewish text, which indeed elaborates on the cryptic verse from Genesis 6:4: “The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterwards—when the sons of God went into the daughters of men.” While scholars disagree about when the book was actually written (with some putting it at ca. 300 B.C.), the book is cited in the New Testament Letter of Jude and the First Letter of Peter, and copies of it were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls. The book was clearly known to first-century Jews and Christians but was considered apocryphal by St. Augustine, among others, and disappeared for more than a thousand years. By the tenth century, the Book of Enoch would have been considered a lost work of scripture, only to be rediscovered centuries later, in 1773, by the Scottish explorer James Bruce during his travels in Abyssinia (Ethiopia).”
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