I actually give this book 3 1/2 stars. I didn't know what to expect from this book, but I ended up liking it. I agree with someone else's comment about the "sex scenes", of which I really only remember there being one plus a rape scene (if I'm remembering correctly), neither of which do I recall ...
It was an entertaining book, on the whole. The whole idea of wards to keep demons (corelings in the book) out and the hints at a larger world than what was depicted in the book were all interesting in a very nice way.The book moved at a solid pace, nice storyline, and it really sets up the stage ...
I liked this book better than the first. Perhaps because now that the author has established the world, he has been free to explore the backstory of one of the characters, the relationships between various people, and just write some cool scenes.Once again I will warn that there is a focus on rep...
I should have read this series long ago. Second book and this doesn't disappointed me a bit, by the contrary it makes me want to read about this story more and more. The only thing that annoyed me was that the author chose to start with Jardir, when I was so eager to know to happen to the main ch...
Like the other two boks before "The Daylight War", Peter V. Brett invites the reader to get to know the characters in the book. This time, the background-stories of choice are Inevera and Renna, while barely moving on with the actual story in the present.For me, it was very interesting to 'see' t...
The book contains two short stories and two deleted scenes from the first novel of the series. The book also contains a little appendix for the Demon World. The short stories are a good addition to the first novel and I truly enjoyed reading them. They give some more insight into Arlen's way to b...
This book is part of the The Demon War trilogy, but moreso as a fill-in/short side stories way. The first story is The Great Bazaar, which recounts Arlen's time as a Messenger, his relationship with Abban, and leads into how he finds the lost city of Anoch Sun. This was a nice tie-in to the trilo...
Messenger Arlen before he became the tattooed badass The Warded Man! a journey through the wilderness! demons seeping out of the ground to attack! magic wards creating protective circles! bandits! betrayal! a fight to the death! a lonely young lady, pregnant and brave! a rock demon! a snow demon!...
He and Arrick had ridden in it countless times back when his master was still in Rhinebeck’s favor. Only now it belonged to Jasin Goldentone. Rojer’s bow skidded off the strings as the coach pulled up in the Corelings’ Graveyard, escorted by a dozen...
Arlen shifted uneasily as the Damaji bestowed the blessings of Kaji, the first Deliverer, on the dal’Sharum. In the North, claiming the Deliverer was just a mortal man might get you in a fist-fight, but it was no crime. In Krasia, such heresy was punishable by death. Kaji was Everam’s Messenger, ...
ALAGAI: Corelings, demons. ALAGAI'SHARAK: Holy War against demonkind. AMIT: Crippled dal'Sharum with a peg leg who is Abban's principal rival in the Bazaar. ANOCH SUN: Lost city that was once the seat of power for Kaji. Believed claimed by the sands. People and artifacts called Sunian. ASU: Son, ...
His mother was banging the porridge pot with her metal ladle, the sound echoing through the house. ‘Out of bed, lazeabouts!’ she cried. ‘First Horn sounded a quarter past and breakfast is hot! Any who ent finished by sunup get an empty belly till luncheon!’ A pillow struck Briar’s head. ‘Open the...
Darsy had taken care of the cottage in her absence, but the garden showed the woman still had a brown thumb, and she was hopeless at keeping things in their proper place. It would be days before the place was restored to Leesha’s satisfaction, everything just so. Even so, simply being back in her...
It was a modest house, considering her father's means, but it served her family well enough, built against the back wall of her father's paper shop. The path leading to the front door was warded.Not that Rojer was paying much attention. He walked slightly behind Leesha, so he could gaze at her wi...