The Warded Man: Book One of The Demon Cycle

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The Warded Man: Book One of The Demon Cycle

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Pros

The pacing is flawless, with each chapter leaving readers hungry for more. I love how the povs overlapped and eventually intersected. As the series develops the books incorporate other viewpoints as well and that just awed me as a reader. This is a ge... Read More

Peter v. Brett's debut novel, the warded man, is a gripping and exhilarating tale that will leave readers yearning for more. Brett spends designated chapters or sections on specific characters (each has their own symbol or totem to signify who the cha... Read More

Cons

The writing from chapter one was bland and aimless. It is a juvenile in that it follows the maturing of a main character, but it is completely inappropriate for a juvenile reader. The final 1/3 is where the book simply implodes. He seems to simply for... Read More

The way magic works is absurd. Even more ridiculously, we learn that music repels and even controls demons.

Good concept, very poor execution. How is this in the pricey best seller category?

The warded man is just written badly. Arlen is the first person to ever tattoo a ward on himself.

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Quality

I highly recommend this book it you like good world building and also military fantasy

The world peter built is amazing and the magic system is outstanding

Because of my manic compulsion to buy everything i see that even remotely piques my interest i bought this book several years a... Read More

Evil and creates a lot of tension with the lifesaving wards being so vulnerable the protective web that repels the corelings wi... Read More

Price

I bought this book on line from a discount sell

Packaging/appearance

Fortunately it wasn’t shown in graphic detail on the page but i can’t help but feel like it did not serve any purpose that coul... Read More

Competitiveness

The downward slide of arrick’s career is in sharp contrast to rojer’s rising star and it is bittersweet and done very well

I feel like this is a book that i will be comparing other epic fantasies to and it is certainly one that makes me look forward ... Read More

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This product had a total of 9,532 reviews as of our last analysis date on Mar 20 2024.