Prince of Thorns may be the first volume in a robust new epic fantasy trilogy, first, absorbing and challenging.

Before the thorns taught me their sharp lessons and bled weakness from me I had fashioned but one brother, and I loved him well. But days past are gone and what is left of these is based on my mother’s tomb. Now I have many brothers, quick with knife and sword, so that as evil as you make sure you. We ride this broken empire and loot its corpse. They state they are violent occasions, the finish of times about Prince of Thorns when the deceased roam and monsters haunt the night. All that is true enough, but there’s something worse out there, at night. Much worse.

From being truly a privileged royal kid, raised by a loving mom, Jorg Ancrath has become the Prince of Thorns, a charming, immoral boy leading a grim band of outlaws in a series of raids and atrocities. The world is within chaos: violence is usually rife, nightmares almost everywhere. Jorg has the ability to expert the living and the dead, but there is still a very important factor that puts a chill in him. Time for his father’s castle Jorg must confront horrors from his years as a child and carve himself another with all hands switched against him.

Tag Lawrence’s debut book tells an account of blood and treachery, magic and brotherhood and paints a compelling and brutal, and sometimes beautiful, picture of a fantastic guy on his journey toward manhood and the throne.