With "The Knight" (Le Chevalier) Pierre Pevel begins a new series of fantasy novels. The story recounts how Lorn, a former member of the King's Guard convicted for treachery who lost part of his soul to the maleficent dungeons of Dalroth, is declared innocent and invested with a mission to restore the High Kingdom to its former glory.
In sum, "The Knight" is a more-than-solid piece of fiction - at times bordering on dark fantasy - with great plot twists, good character build-up and a well-written setting. ( )

First, all I can think about is the ending, but we will get back to that later.

Lorn was a celebrated knight, now 3 years later he is freed from prison. A hellish prison that has left him eternally marked by darkness. And by darkness I actually mean darkness. The dark is a force not to be played with. It can turn you, it can kill you. Not to mention sitting in a shitty prison for 3 years is hell too.

The kingdom is in turmoil (all good kingdoms are ;). The king is sitting in his citadel, half dead and hiding. The princes are...well princes, and one seems promising. The queen has the power and the dukes wants to rebel. And all while another nation wants to take land back they lost. The usual stuff then, politics, war, death, destruction, dark powers, and just awesomeness!

I could not stop reading, I got caught up in Lorn's story, he was such an unwilling hero. He was so angry. I wanted to know why he had been in prison. I wanted to know why he had to save the land.

But then came the ending. I sat up in bed and said wtf, wtf...WTF!? That was an evil ending. That ending was too evil. That ending was brutal. It had me going to goodreads at once and reading the French blurb for book 2 (as this is a translation and book 2 has not been published yet.) I need book 2 now, I even thought about reading it in French for a second, but then I remembered I only took that beginner's class.

So, an evil ending (if you had not realised that by know). A great tale, interesting world, and I want more. ( )