Road Brothers

These shorts feel well rounded and 'lived in' thanks to the painstaking world building of the Broken Empire.Definitely worth 5 stars

Haven't read it yet.

Gute Ergänzung zu den "Broken Empire"und "Red Queens War" Serien.

I think by now everyone knows how big a fan of Mark Lawrence I am. I can’t get enough of his books. So naturally when this collection of short stories came out I jumped all over the chance to read more about Jorg and his Road Brothers!This is a fantastic collection of ten short stories set in Mark Lawrence’s magnificent Broken Empire world. For any fan yearning for more from this series, this will definitely do the trick. These are all fascinating studies of the characters within the series. It is wonderful to get some more insights into the characters and get some additional light shed on bits and pieces in the series. I do not recommend reading this series until you have finished the Broken Empire books, spoilers are everywhere, and everything makes more sense with the prior knowledge of reading the series.This is yet another epic chapter in the finely crafted universe Mark has created. I really, really hope a print version is not to far off, I must have it for my collection!As you know if you have read my reviews before I am not about long reviews with synopsis and spoilers. I just give my opinion on my experience with this book and you can take it from there. Now on to the next book.5/5 STARS! - MightyThorJRSNow I need to re-read The Broken Empire series, so very good!

A great collection of the ‘back-story’ of some of the characters in the ‘Broken Empire’ series, although as it’s several years since I read the series I couldn’t remember all the more minor ones. If you haven’t read the series you may find it hard to engage with the characters although it will give you a taste of the story-line (it was after reading Select Mode in another anthology that I picked up on Mark Lawrence, who I hadn’t previously heard of). There is also an excellent introduction to the ‘hero’ of Lawrence’s second series, The Red Queens’s War – the dissolute wastrel Prince Jalan Kendeth – in the hilarious last story ‘Three is the Charm’ which for me was almost worth the price of the entire book.