Quick Review: The Briar King
The praise usually found on the first few pages and the back cover of a book has little to do with the book, it’s just marketing, but for this one I found something I must quote: “In the end, the best recommendation I can give is that if you are sick to death of fantasy, read The Briar King. Remember why you used to love it.” So true; this is pure fantasy at its best.
I may even go out on a limb here and say this is the best fantasy book I read since The Lord of the Rings. There were moments when I was almost afraid to read on thinking it’s too good and the author will have to ruin it somehow… He didn’t.
The parts about the court, while it still stood, were terribly annoying, and there is still at least one character, out of the “good ones”, still alive that I really wish wasn’t, but that’s really the only thing I can say against it. Well, besides the usual problems that come with the beginning of a story, when things take a while to get moving.
I hope it will get even better in the next book; unfortunately I only have the first two in the series.
Rating: 9/10
