David Webb
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Mark Lawrence:
I was wondering if Nona from Red Sister was inspired by Vaelin Al Sorna? She seems like the female version. Not that I am complaining. I loved Blood Song and loved Red Sister equally. So far this year Red Sister is hands down my favorite book.
Mark Lawrence
Well, the answer to that is a solid "no" as they are to my mind very different characters.
You would be on more solid ground to ask if the general thrust of that book was an influence. At which point I would aim you at this interview:
https://mylifemybooksmyescape.wordpre...
Where I answer a related question:
DJ: What were some of your influences for the Book of the Ancestor trilogy?
Mark: I always find that one a difficult question. I don’t have any clear (to me) influences, though I must admit that listening repeatedly to Enid Blyton’s Malory Towers series (written in the 1940s about a posh girls’ boarding school) with my daughter may have steered me into the all-female “school” setting. It is very different from Malory Towers though. I guess it must owe something to The Name of the Wind, Blood Song, Ender’s Game, A Wizard of Earth Sea, and even Harry Potter!
You would be on more solid ground to ask if the general thrust of that book was an influence. At which point I would aim you at this interview:
https://mylifemybooksmyescape.wordpre...
Where I answer a related question:
DJ: What were some of your influences for the Book of the Ancestor trilogy?
Mark: I always find that one a difficult question. I don’t have any clear (to me) influences, though I must admit that listening repeatedly to Enid Blyton’s Malory Towers series (written in the 1940s about a posh girls’ boarding school) with my daughter may have steered me into the all-female “school” setting. It is very different from Malory Towers though. I guess it must owe something to The Name of the Wind, Blood Song, Ender’s Game, A Wizard of Earth Sea, and even Harry Potter!
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Hello Mr Lawrence i would like to ask you if possible i finished Prince of Thorns today and I'm just wondering if you intentionally made it short? I will be starting King of Thorns at some point which i believe if I'm not wrong an extra 76 pages was this intentionally please or just simply book one was short. Thank you
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Cursed Herondale
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Mark Lawrence:
Hi! I haven't read any of your book yet but I'd love to read ALL of them! My question is, are your three series connected to each other? Like are they of the same universe? (like MCU or Riordan's Camp Half Blood) and if so, do I have to read them by series, like The Broken Empire first, followed by The Red Queen and Book Of The Ancestor after? or do I have to read them alternately based on the succession of events?
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