The Ruin of Kings by Jenn Lyons6/19/2023 ![]() ![]() For most of the book the story alternates back and forth between two different POV characters, each one telling Khirin’s story, each one in a different timeline. The structure of this book is non linear in an interesting way. That’s not necessarily a bad thing! Personally, I enjoyed the heck out of this book, but I can totally see it not being a fit for every reader. It’s like someone put Rothfuss, Lynch, and Erikson in a blender, sprinkled some D&D on top, and this is the result. This is a book that has everything in it and the kitchen sink–dragons, necromancers, wizards, immortal races, super powered characters, magical artifacts, demons. ![]() Then again, maybe he’s not the hero, for Kihrin isn’t destined to save the empire. ![]() He also discovers that the storybooks have lied about a lot of other things things, too: dragons, demons, gods, prophecies, true love, and how the hero always wins. ![]() When he is claimed against his will as the long-lost son of a treasonous prince, Kihrin finds that being a long-lost prince isn’t what the storybooks promised.įar from living the dream, Kihrin finds himself practically a prisoner, at the mercy of his new family’s power plays and ambitions. Kihrin is a bastard orphan who grew up on storybook tales of long-lost princes and grand quests. ![]()
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