Plus, I could sort of piece together or puzzle out what was going on based on the other storylines. As I always wanted to know what happened to Khirin in every timeline, I really enjoyed the changing of narration. Gone were the frustrating cliffhangers of many fantasy novels that skip from character to character, and instead, I had cliffhangers of what happened to one single character. To my surprise, I found this method of writing masterful, creative, and that it really added to the tension of the novel. When I initially read about these narrative devices, I was a little concerned that I would hate them. Ruin of Kings is not a light read, it requires you to keep these three separate narratives straight, but the novel does help by keeping parts of the story told by Khirin’s jailer, in third person, while Khirin’s story is in first. If this sounds confusing, it is, at least at first, or if you set the novel down for any period of time. His story is told from the present, when he is in jail, also from another perspective, when he tells his story to his jailer, and lastly, when shis jailer tells parts of his story to Khirin, because she is dissatisfied with his telling of it and doesn’t want to leave any parts of his tale out. The Ruin of Kings follows main character Khirin, in three different periods of his life. Surprisingly, my confusion was not due to the complex narration, which was concerning to me when I initially read about it and picked up the book, but mainly due to the fact that characters, quite literally, are often not who they appear to be. I really loved the book, with its conversational dialogue, banter, dark world filled with dragons, krakens and other mythological creatures, interesting world-building, but found it incredibly confusing. The Ruin of Kings, the first novel in The Chorus of Dragons, provides me with a unique review challenge. Then again, maybe he's not the hero, for Kihrin is not destined to save the empire. He also discovers that the storybooks have lied about a lot of other 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. Published by Tor Books on February 5th 2019īuy on Amazon| Buy on Barnes & Noble| Buy on Waterstones The Ruin of Kings (A Chorus of Dragons #1) by Jenn Lyons
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