[Tiste Simeon]

I love this little dig, in what the fat idiotic king is saying: "Treachery and treason! Crath City was stolen from me! Everyone's saying it!"

The Book that Held Her Heart is an excellent book thus far, Mark.

[Abyss]

Tiste Simeon, on 28 May 2025 - 05:42 PM, said:

I love this little dig, in what the fat idiotic king is saying: "Treachery and treason! Crath City was stolen from me! Everyone's saying it!"

The Book that Held Her Heart is an excellent book thus far, Mark.

what's the dig?

[QuickTidal]

Tiste Simeon, on 10 May 2025 - 06:55 AM, said:

Abysslemont - it all makes sense!

This sounds like an industrial furniture cleaner.

[Tiste Simeon]

Abyss, on 29 May 2025 - 01:20 PM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 28 May 2025 - 05:42 PM, said:

I love this little dig, in what the fat idiotic king is saying: "Treachery and treason! Crath City was stolen from me! Everyone's saying it!"

The Book that Held Her Heart is an excellent book thus far, Mark.

what's the dig?

I mean it kind of sounds like a Trump quote. Add to the fact that the person saying it is a moronic despot... I may be wrong but that was what I immediately thought of.

[champ]

Tiste Simeon, on 29 May 2025 - 02:40 PM, said:

Abyss, on 29 May 2025 - 01:20 PM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 28 May 2025 - 05:42 PM, said:

I love this little dig, in what the fat idiotic king is saying: "Treachery and treason! Crath City was stolen from me! Everyone's saying it!"

The Book that Held Her Heart is an excellent book thus far, Mark.

what's the dig?

I mean it kind of sounds like a Trump quote. Add to the fact that the person saying it is a moronic despot... I may be wrong but that was what I immediately thought of.

I thought Trump too with the underlined, made me laugh.

[Tiste Simeon]

 champ, on 29 May 2025 - 03:10 PM, said:

 Tiste Simeon, on 29 May 2025 - 02:40 PM, said:

 Abyss, on 29 May 2025 - 01:20 PM, said:

 Tiste Simeon, on 28 May 2025 - 05:42 PM, said:

I love this little dig, in what the fat idiotic king is saying: "Treachery and treason! Crath City was stolen from me! Everyone's saying it!"

The Book that Held Her Heart is an excellent book thus far, Mark.

what's the dig?

I mean it kind of sounds like a Trump quote. Add to the fact that the person saying it is a moronic despot... I may be wrong but that was what I immediately thought of.

I thought Trump too with the underlined, made me laugh.

There's a lot in this book and fascism and the use of blaming the "other" in an attempt to gain power & control. A very timely book!

I just finished it today and I think it's not only the best of the trilogy but to my mind it could be the best book Mark has written. While this trilogy as a whole is probably not my favourite (just on a personal taste level my top two series are RQW and the Book of the Ancestors) but this particular book is just stunning.

[Mark Lawrence]

Tiste Simeon, on 07 June 2025 - 11:12 PM, said:

champ, on 29 May 2025 - 03:10 PM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 29 May 2025 - 02:40 PM, said:

Abyss, on 29 May 2025 - 01:20 PM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 28 May 2025 - 05:42 PM, said:

I love this little dig, in what the fat idiotic king is saying: "Treachery and treason! Crath City was stolen from me! Everyone's saying it!"

The Book that Held Her Heart is an excellent book thus far, Mark.

what's the dig?

I mean it kind of sounds like a Trump quote. Add to the fact that the person saying it is a moronic despot... I may be wrong but that was what I immediately thought of.

I thought Trump too with the underlined, made me laugh.

There's a lot in this book and fascism and the use of blaming the "other" in an attempt to gain power & control. A very timely book!

I just finished it today and I think it's not only the best of the trilogy but to my mind it could be the best book Mark has written. While this trilogy as a whole is probably not my favourite (just on a personal taste level my top two series are RQW and the Book of the Ancestors) but this particular book is just stunning.

I also think it's the best in the trilogy, and certainly one of the best I've written.

I think a lot of readers of book 1 thought they were on the romantasy train and would be heading more directly to their preferred stop in books 2 & 3. And when that didn't happen, some were disappointed. But we were never going there

[Tiste Simeon]

Hah we could definitely have done with more random smut scenes TBF (kidding in case anyone is unclear!)

[Macros]

I'll let you get back to Reginald's quivering member

[Tsundoku]

Simmo, do you read Mark Lawrence in your bubble bath, with a glass of wine?

This post has been edited by Tsundoku: 01 July 2025 - 10:13 AM

[Tiste Simeon]

Tsundoku, on 01 July 2025 - 10:11 AM, said:

Simmo, do you read Mark Lawrence in your bubble bath, with a glass of wine?

How else does one read a book?

[QuickTidal]

Tiste Simeon, on 01 July 2025 - 11:39 AM, said:

Tsundoku, on 01 July 2025 - 10:11 AM, said:

Simmo, do you read Mark Lawrence in your bubble bath, with a glass of wine?

How else does one read a book?

Yeah, I mean this is pretty status quo for there average reader isn't it?

[Tsundoku]

Tiste Simeon, on 01 July 2025 - 11:39 AM, said:

Tsundoku, on 01 July 2025 - 10:11 AM, said:

Simmo, do you read Mark Lawrence in your bubble bath, with a glass of wine?

How else does one read a book?

Fifty Shades of Jorg.

[Mark Lawrence]

Tsundoku, on 01 July 2025 - 01:03 PM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 01 July 2025 - 11:39 AM, said:

Tsundoku, on 01 July 2025 - 10:11 AM, said:

Simmo, do you read Mark Lawrence in your bubble bath, with a glass of wine?

How else does one read a book?

Fifty Shades of Jorg.

"I missed that purity in myself. Only yesterday every choice came easy. Black or white. Stab Gemt in the neck or don't. And now? Shades of grey. A man can drown in shades of grey."

"You can cut seven shades from a man. Scarlet arterial blood, purple from the veins, bile like fresh-cut grass, browns from the gut, but it all dries to somewhere between rust and tar. Time for Red Jorg to take himself to a stream and clean off the fort-men. I watched the dirt swirl away, pinkish in the water."

Just a couple of related quotes from the trilogy

This post has been edited by Mark Lawrence: 01 July 2025 - 01:15 PM

[champ]

He always was a man of class, Jorg.

I miss that guy!

[QuickTidal]

champ, on 01 July 2025 - 02:38 PM, said:

He always was a man of class, Jorg.

I miss that guy!

Listen, I love Jorg, but Jalan is where it's at.

[Mark Lawrence]

QuickTidal, on 01 July 2025 - 03:21 PM, said:

champ, on 01 July 2025 - 02:38 PM, said:

He always was a man of class, Jorg.

I miss that guy!

Listen, I love Jorg, but Jalan is where it's at.

The bits where they meet or Jalan meets the same people are good

[champ]

QuickTidal, on 01 July 2025 - 03:21 PM, said:

champ, on 01 July 2025 - 02:38 PM, said:

He always was a man of class, Jorg.

I miss that guy!

Listen, I love Jorg, but Jalan is where it's at.

See, whilst I do agree and we've had this discussion in the thread previously... the longer it goes on the more I am becoming conflicted.


If we had the option of Jal and Snorri in America as a next book or a book on Jorg with where he was at... it would be Jorg any day of the week.

Mark Lawrence, on 01 July 2025 - 03:23 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 01 July 2025 - 03:21 PM, said:

champ, on 01 July 2025 - 02:38 PM, said:

He always was a man of class, Jorg.

I miss that guy!

Listen, I love Jorg, but Jalan is where it's at.

The bits where they meet or Jalan meets the same people are good

I can't tell you how many times I have reread that scene. It's interesting to get Jorg from another POV and then the attempts to 1-up each other is glorious!

You also get the feels at the end with how young Jorg looks asleep and how many problems could be solved if he was thrown off the roof ha.

A bravo scene!


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As for "The Book That Held Her Heart." I haven't been able to get into it yet but that is not down to the book quality, just down to where my mood phase is at, it's really difficult to sit and read when you are in a high mood phase.

So frustrating though. I need to know what happens. I even bought it on audiobook too to see if that helped but unfortunately not!

[Mark Lawrence]

champ, on 01 July 2025 - 04:02 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 01 July 2025 - 03:21 PM, said:

champ, on 01 July 2025 - 02:38 PM, said:

He always was a man of class, Jorg.

I miss that guy!

Listen, I love Jorg, but Jalan is where it's at.

See, whilst I do agree and we've had this discussion in the thread previously... the longer it goes on the more I am becoming conflicted.


If we had the option of Jal and Snorri in America as a next book or a book on Jorg with where he was at... it would be Jorg any day of the week.

Mark Lawrence, on 01 July 2025 - 03:23 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 01 July 2025 - 03:21 PM, said:

champ, on 01 July 2025 - 02:38 PM, said:

He always was a man of class, Jorg.

I miss that guy!

Listen, I love Jorg, but Jalan is where it's at.

The bits where they meet or Jalan meets the same people are good

I can't tell you how many times I have reread that scene. It's interesting to get Jorg from another POV and then the attempts to 1-up each other is glorious!

You also get the feels at the end with how young Jorg looks asleep and how many problems could be solved if he was thrown off the roof ha.

A bravo scene!


------------


As for "The Book That Held Her Heart." I haven't been able to get into it yet but that is not down to the book quality, just down to where my mood phase is at, it's really difficult to sit and read when you are in a high mood phase.

So frustrating though. I need to know what happens. I even bought it on audiobook too to see if that helped but unfortunately not!

Maybe if you bought more copies.... ?

[champ]

Mark Lawrence, on 01 July 2025 - 06:22 PM, said:

champ, on 01 July 2025 - 04:02 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 01 July 2025 - 03:21 PM, said:

champ, on 01 July 2025 - 02:38 PM, said:

He always was a man of class, Jorg.

I miss that guy!

Listen, I love Jorg, but Jalan is where it's at.

See, whilst I do agree and we've had this discussion in the thread previously... the longer it goes on the more I am becoming conflicted.


If we had the option of Jal and Snorri in America as a next book or a book on Jorg with where he was at... it would be Jorg any day of the week.

Mark Lawrence, on 01 July 2025 - 03:23 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 01 July 2025 - 03:21 PM, said:

champ, on 01 July 2025 - 02:38 PM, said:

He always was a man of class, Jorg.

I miss that guy!

Listen, I love Jorg, but Jalan is where it's at.

The bits where they meet or Jalan meets the same people are good

I can't tell you how many times I have reread that scene. It's interesting to get Jorg from another POV and then the attempts to 1-up each other is glorious!

You also get the feels at the end with how young Jorg looks asleep and how many problems could be solved if he was thrown off the roof ha.

A bravo scene!


------------


As for "The Book That Held Her Heart." I haven't been able to get into it yet but that is not down to the book quality, just down to where my mood phase is at, it's really difficult to sit and read when you are in a high mood phase.

So frustrating though. I need to know what happens. I even bought it on audiobook too to see if that helped but unfortunately not!

Maybe if you bought more copies.... ?

Well that depends on how pretty of a special edition set we can get...