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Book Blog: Desert Spear by Peter V. Brett
May. 14th, 2016 02:38 pmNumber 2 in the series beginning with The Painted Man which I've found out is called The Warded Man in the US, which explained my confusion when I first located Peter Brett's books in the library.
This one goes into the history of the characters' enemies, a desert culture based strongly on Arab tribal customs. From this comes the leader Jardir [who has a list of names] whom I thought of as a basically decent person brought up in a complete shit of a culture. He and Arlen are both treated as the Deliverer (from the demons) but the difference is Jardir believes it. Think the madness of Daesh/Islamic State, maybe a few centuries on with demons in the mix. Even the supposedly superior warrior caste gets a rotten deal, since all they do is fight demons on the city walls and generally die young.
Arlen, Leesha, Rojer and the rest come back into the story later on - it's a big book - and then the fates of all of them come together. Sort of. This is only book 2 and there are more to come. The library has book 4 but not book 3, which they are in the process of acquiring, so I'm guessing somebody walked off with it. But definitely a good story and one I'll continue reading when I get the chance.
This one goes into the history of the characters' enemies, a desert culture based strongly on Arab tribal customs. From this comes the leader Jardir [who has a list of names] whom I thought of as a basically decent person brought up in a complete shit of a culture. He and Arlen are both treated as the Deliverer (from the demons) but the difference is Jardir believes it. Think the madness of Daesh/Islamic State, maybe a few centuries on with demons in the mix. Even the supposedly superior warrior caste gets a rotten deal, since all they do is fight demons on the city walls and generally die young.
Arlen, Leesha, Rojer and the rest come back into the story later on - it's a big book - and then the fates of all of them come together. Sort of. This is only book 2 and there are more to come. The library has book 4 but not book 3, which they are in the process of acquiring, so I'm guessing somebody walked off with it. But definitely a good story and one I'll continue reading when I get the chance.