Mark Lawrence’s Reviews > Conan the Triumphant > Status Update

Prologue page 1: POV character:
Her tall form was barely covered by a black silk (snip) that left the outer curves of her breasts and hips bare.

The other two female characters introduced so far are either spanked by Conan or threated with spanking.

It seems Jordan goes for the $10 word where possible: dripping & pooling blood are described as "sanguinary flow" and "sanguinary pool". A bloody sword is "encarmined".

This book was written at the time I was reading Conan books, and hits many of the same notes though harder that I recall them. The surprise is probably because you don't tend to see this sort of thing anymore.

The Point Of View (POV) often strays outside the characters to undress^B^B^B describe them from an omniscient - somewhat prurient POV. These days most writers keep the POV firmly in the character.

I read a bunch of Conan books in the 70s/80s and still have them on my shelves somewhere.

I was given the opportunity to write a Conan book last year (and again this year) so I thought I should revisit the series, even though I don't think I have the time or anything to add.

I have also never read a Robert Jordan book, so this felt like a two birds, one stone chance.