What's that series about that you're reading now? I'm about to start A Dance With Dragons, book 5 in A Song of Ice and Fire AKA "Game of Thrones series" for HBO folks.
Its told from a first person point of view with the main character prince Jorg as the narrator. Basically he, his mom and his little brother were attacked by soldiers belonging to another lord when riding a carriage during a storm. Jorg was flung out of the carriage and landed in a thorn bush where he was stuck and had to watch his mom and little brother get tortured and killed, and then left hanging there for hours watching the corpses, driving the boy insane. He then sets off to get revenge. Book one is Prince of thorns (he's a prince), second is King of thorns, third is emperor of thorns. Its a very dark series with Jorg being more of a antagonist than a protagonist. To quote him: "A good king wouldn't put his people through this, but I am no good king". It also has some interesting connections to the real world in it.
