Prince of Thorns

The protagonist is a 13 years old psychopath leading a band of 36 cutthroats, who are able to defeat a trained army of 200 soldiers. This says it all.

I'm supposed to empathize with a noble born spoiled brat who goes about torturing farmers, raping their daughters and burning them alive. Someone who believes himself to be superior to everyone else, as there is 100 contenders to the throne, and he is sure he is the one who will win it. See the Empire is Broken (oohhh, I see what you did there mister!), and there are a lot of factions fighting to be the one who rules them all. This boy, who is one of the dozens of sons of a king, who while men attempted to murder him and his family, escaped death by jumping out a window and falling on a bush of Thorns (oohhh, you did it again!), is our one and true savior.

And why does he believe he will win you say? Why is that at 13 years old, better then all the other 100 small armies? Why he alone can fight the undead while his friends run in fear? Why he can go up to an army with a white flag, and at the first opportunity, betrays its significance and kills their leader? Intelligence? Training? Magic? No my dear readers, its because he knows it's all a game, and therefore, he wins.

He is the one who can say things like
- I will run away from this battle
- “You don't want to do that”
- Why, because you will kill me if I do?
- No, because I know its not a good idea
- Oh, OK then.

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