Prince of Thorns
by Mark Lawrence (Voyager, 2011)
audiobook read by Joe Jameson (HarperCollins, 2012)
Lawrence’s debut is an impressive piece of genre subversion, casting adolescent antihero Jorg Ancrath against every convention of what is appropriate from a fantasy protagonist, yet still retaining the reader’s backing. Jorg’s conversational sociopathy is particularly well served by Jameson’s audiobook reading.