Critical acclaim for The Philosopher Prince
 

“Julian represents hope in a dark world, and the novel’s main theme is the struggle between the forces of truth and those of arbitrary power, and the way arbitrary power can corrupt the human heart. The Dark Ages to come, this existential novel makes clear, are interior as much as exterior.

“There are also some extremely good set pieces, convincing cliff-hangers that keep us on the edge of our seats in what is essentially a novel of ideas.

“Waters is bold enough, like Julian himself, to confront the essential troubling question: what exactly is our place in this world? Two wonderfully assured novels on, one waits for the next instalment with bated breath.”

– Alexander Lucie-Smith, The Tablet