Emperor of Thorns

Executive Summary: I've thought this series was good, but not great and the final book was no different.Audiobook: James Clamp does another good job here. He does voices for a few characters. He has a good reading voice that's easy to understand with a good pace. I definitely thinks he adds a little something to the book.Full ReviewFrom the start of this series I never really cared about Jorg. That seems to be different from most people as I've seen his unlikeableness cited as the main reason for not liking the series. While I don't dislike him, I can see why people do. My main thing is I don't really care about him. This book was no different.I didn't care about his goals. I didn't really care about the antagonist. To me the most interesting bits were the world building. I want to know more about the creators. I want to learn more about the ghosts in the machines. What happened? What are they planning?I'm hoping the follow-on series digs into that a lot more, because I was sort of disappointed we didn't learn more in this series. I'll probably jump into [b:Prince of Fools 18693743 Prince of Fools (The Red Queen's War, #1) Mark Lawrence https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1385072473s/18693743.jpg 25595312] in the next month or two, as I already own it.Overall I thought this series was fine, but it's easy to see how much Mark Lawrence has grown as a writer when you pick up [b:Red Sister 25895524 Red Sister (Book of the Ancestor, #1) Mark Lawrence https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1481038440s/25895524.jpg 45777900]. I mostly picked this up to kill time for the second book in that series, and I can't wait for it to come out next week.