Mark Lawrence is one of my favorite new writers. I say new because I only started reading him in 2015. He's rapidly approaching Jim Butcher and Peter David levels of providing me with some of my most-consistently entertaining novels. Rare is the author who I look at and say, "Well, I'm going to enjoy what he writes no matter what it is." This is a fairly hefty bit of praise after three novels.

    Now four.

    The Broken Empire Trilogy was an ex...