Cowards and Heroes in The Prince of Fools

Jalen may be a prince, but he is also a cheat, a coward, and a womanizer who is often trying to escape an angry father or brother. Despite Jal’s desire to continue his life of leisure, stories of a dead army in the north threaten his lifestyle when the Red Queen demands that he be prepared to act.

In typical Jalen fashion he decides to ignore the Red Queen but fate changes everything when he becomes linked magically with Snorri, a Norse warrior who has seen the red army and whose family is trapped in the north. The two men cannot get far apart and Snorri is going to save his family leaving Jalen no choice but to head north and into danger in The Prince of Fools by Mark Lawrence.

This fantasy novel is the first book in the new series The Red Queen’s War. This world was first created in the Broken Empire Trilogy, but The Red Queen’s War Series can be read independently of the trilogy.