King of Thorns
by Mark Lawrence (Harper Voyager, 2012)
audiobook read by Joe Jameson (HarperCollins, 2012)
Jorg Ancrath remains a quintessential antihero, redeemable (if at all) only through dint of his brutal self-honesty and the reader’s lingering hope that he might come good. Lawrence also affords him the appeal of fighting, mostly with his wits, against impossible odds.