[RACHEL]

Mark Lawrence wrote the web serial Gunlaw which you can read for free on Wattpad and he is rumored to have teamed up with another author to write The Tower and Knife trilogy under the pen name Mazarkis Williams. I was reading his blog and he mentioned a thriller he had written recently. He is a writing machine.

[Morgoth]

Finished Red sister while on vacation. It was an excellent read. Mark continues to keep me hooked on his books, which is very much appreciated!

[Macros]

Now that I've read Grey sister he should probably just go ahead and release the final book in the trilogy

Just saying

[Morgoth]

It would be selfish of him not to.

[Morgoth]

Especially as Grey Sister was very good too!

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

QuickTidal, on 04 April 2018 - 01:48 PM, said:

Thoughts at just over the halfway mark of RED SISTER.

Spoiler

So the turncoat Sister who comes with Lano Tacsis's men through the forest of stone columns at Arabella and aims a spear at her...Arabella calls out "C..."...which I THINK is supposed to throw us off and think it's Cage (as in Nona's nun name) because it follows right after the part where we hear that Arabella is Thorn, and Nona is Cage...but it's more likely Clera right? I mean Sister Kettle (was it Kettle? I think iso anyways) already warned Nona about having Clera as her friend, and Nona already discovered that it was Clera's weird hangups that prevented Nona and Arabella from becoming friends in the first place (like you know that scene in HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHERS STONE where Harry first arrives at Hogwarts and Draco introduces himself and offers his hand, but Ron kind of saves Harry from that offer of friendship? This feels like the reverse. Clera is Draco and Nona is Harry....only this time, Harry ACCEPTED the friendship of the Slytherin, because she didn't know any better?)...and Clera clearly wants to learn all the stuff and then leave the convent...all of which could easily lead to her joining a mercenary band out in the Corridor who takes the coin of the Tacsis family to kill the Argatha?

Anyways, that's my thought right now. I'm trying to figure out a way for that character to be Nona/Cage instead....but then I'll be expecting a turn with that spear towards the remaining mercenaries, and Thorn and Cage fighting together again. That seems less likely than making it Clera to me, but it's Lawrence, so I'l expect the unexpected.

Also, I know these books aren't supposedly connected to the Thorns world....but since it seems clear that this is a world that was once settled by human space travellers who have long since faded into myth and faith...what if Abeth is a world that was found when a PRE-cataclysm Thorns world sent astronauts into space to colonize. Kind of like a Lawrencien Cosmology like Sanderson? Anyways, just a thought.

Still such an amazing book, with such vivid characters!

Yes,

Spoiler

but one issue I had with 'C-' is that before that she calls her 'Sister'---yet Clera apparently never becomes a Sister. And even if she did, it's unlikely that her nun name would also start with C. That said, the placement of that scene was a brilliant mindfuck and made me feel compelled to go on.

Just finished listening to the Broken Empire, Red Queen's War, and first two Book of the Ancestor novels. The last two novels weren't necessarily 'better' in a literary sense but they seemed significantly more addictive (or maybe I just wanted to retreat from reality more than usual? not sure). Each book has had flashes of imagistic genius. However, in terms of literary merit, I thought Grey Sister might have been one of the weakest---

Spoiler

the villains are too purely villainous, the ending of the main story too predictable, and the best sensory images didn't quite reach the same level as the previous books---although the way the Abbess turned the tables on Sherzal was one of the best twists he's ever come up with (even if it was undercut a bit by being inconsistent with the Abbess's previous first person thoughts). Also, the final twist of the frame story was great and completely unexpected.

It's frustrating that the third book has already been finished but (the publisher is mandating---for marketing reasons?) it won't be published until next April. Hopefully ML will continue revising it and start to extend his flashes of greatness over wider periods and improve some of his less laudable habits, like overly predictable endgame plotting and over-reliance on coincidence (the worst of both worlds!), that are really more suited to YA fare. Personally I hope he goes in a less 'commercial' / 'cranking out the quasi-YA page-turners' direction towards more of a literary and philosophical tilt.

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 23 August 2018 - 03:17 AM

[champ]

I recently finished both Red and Grey Sister which encouraged me to start a Broken Empire/Red Queen's War series reread. Just about to finish King of Thorns and damn... I'm loving these books just as much on my third read through as I did on my first read through...

Still cannot stand the "Justice" scene from King though...

As previously mentioned, you can see the Anthony Ryan influence in the Book of the Ancestor series, especially the first one, Red Sister. I thought the pacing was off a bit in that book but Grey was an absolute page turner.

I would love to read a book on Zole and her POV...

Is there any confirmation on how many books we'll get in the Book of the Ancestor series? I had in my mind that it was a trilogy but also think that I may have read somewhere there is a plan for 4-5 books?!

[RACHEL]

https://thatthornguy...-mark-lawrence/

New Mark Lawrence book!!!

This post has been edited by RACHEL: 26 September 2018 - 02:06 PM

[Abyss]

Does anyone pronounce Jorge as 'Horhey' as opposed to 'George'?

[Aptorian]

I pronounce it like George but with a soft j which doesn't really make sense in English I guess.

This post has been edited by Alternative Goose: 24 October 2018 - 03:47 PM

[Salt-Man Z]

Abyss, on 24 October 2018 - 03:41 PM, said:

Does anyone pronounce Jorge as 'Horhey' as opposed to 'George'?

I pronounce it as if it were German: YORG -uh (but the second syllable is almost nonexistent, just the slightest puff of breath.) (curse you, Abyss!)

This post has been edited by Salt-Man Z: 24 October 2018 - 06:35 PM

[Traveller]

Nah he's Jorg in my copy, so pretty much as it reads in my head anyways - Jorg or Yorg, but no syllable after the g, which is hard rather than in George.

[acesn8s]

I just started Prince of Fools this week. I'm surprised how far behind his releases I am.

This post has been edited by acesn8s: 24 October 2018 - 06:10 PM

[Salt-Man Z]

Traveller, on 24 October 2018 - 05:50 PM, said:

Nah he's Jorg in my copy, so pretty much as it reads in my head anyways - Jorg or Yorg, but no syllable after the g, which is hard rather than in George.

Oh, yeah, it is just Jorg (YORG). Where in the Abyss did Abyss get "Jorge" from?

[Macros]

Jorg.

Like Georg

[Abyss]

Salt-Man Z, on 24 October 2018 - 06:35 PM, said:

Traveller, on 24 October 2018 - 05:50 PM, said:

Nah he's Jorg in my copy, so pretty much as it reads in my head anyways - Jorg or Yorg, but no syllable after the g, which is hard rather than in George.

Oh, yeah, it is just Jorg (YORG). Where in the Abyss did Abyss get "Jorge" from?

Heh, ...earbooking tends to mess up fantasy lit name spelling. I saw the name that way elseforum and didn't think twice.

[worry]

I call him hard J hard G Jorg mostly. But I do call him Jorge, Boy George, or even Georgie when I feel like it.

[Macros]

What about Georgie porgie. Or are the some lines you just won't cross?

[worry]

Only in the scenes he makes girls cry.

[Tiste Simeon]

As long as you pronounce Simeon properly...