Jorg's personality and decisions are called into question. The world-building and how magic can exist when these books take place in a post-apocalyptic future is more thoroughly explained. This book is, in almost every way, better than the first. But playing fair was never part of Jorg’s game plan. But King Jorg is not a good king.įaced by an enemy many times his strength Jorg knows that he cannot win a fair fight. Every good king knows to bend the knee in the face of overwhelming odds, if only to save their people and their lands. Every decent man prays this shining hero will unite the empire and heal its wounds. First though he must gather his own pieces, learn the rules of play, and discover how to break them.Ī six nation army, twenty thousand strong, marches toward Jorg's gates, led by a champion beloved of the people. He saw the game and vowed to sweep the board. The long road to avenge the slaughter of his mother and brother has shown Prince Honorous Jorg Ancrath the hidden hands behind this endless war. The land burns with the fires of a hundred battles as lords and petty kings fight for the Broken Empire. I’ve walked from pawn to player and I’ll win this game of ours, though the cost of it may drown the world in blood… To reach greatness you must step on bodies, and many brothers lie trodden in my wake. The second book in the Broken Empire series, Lawrence takes his young anti-hero one step closer to his grand ambition.
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