This isn't a book I would have picked up on my own, but I'm so very glad that it came into my hands via a book bag at last year's World Fantasy Convention. I loved it. On the surface, it seems to be a fantasy, but it has an air of realism to it that makes you think it could almost be a dystopian i...
Chances are good that I never would have read this book if not for seeing it mentioned and recommended by someone I know. As I've mentioned a few times, I'm not a big reader of fantasy (despite the fact that four of my last eleven books read were all fantasy), so it wouldn't have caught my attentio...
I loved the idea of humanity in an ages-long struggle with demons that rise out of the earth, able to survive only in islands of protection (similar in some ways to [author:Barbara Hambly's] [book:Darwath Trilogy|438119]), but are we ever going to learn how it's possible that humanity could even ari...
Reading the books on my friend's kindle has meant that there have been a bunch of books that I have tried that I probably would have taken a long time to get to otherwise, if ever. Some of them have been not to my taste. But this one was more than a pleasant surprise. It was really delightful. In th...
I finally managed to track down this book after having a used copy of [b:The Desert Spear|6736971|The Desert Spear (Demon Cycle, #2)|Peter V. Brett|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1320389818s/6736971.jpg|6527274] staring at me for months. I was thrilled when I could sit down an read it be...
When I first read the summary blurb about this book, I was skeptical. It just didn't sound that great. But I gave it a read anyway and I'm not sorry. This is a very entertaining start of a great series. Brett tells the story well and the magic system is imaginative. So far there are 3 books in the s...
As much as I enjoyed the read, the last third of this book faltered a lot and the narration took on a "tell" rather than "show" style. This was unsettling not only because the pacing slowed, but also because it happened at a critical point, when the three main narratives converged to set up events t...
4.5 Stars Wow. That was pretty amazing. Peter V. Brett is a very talented writer. This was an epic fantasy story, with unforgettable characters. It was told from 3 different characters point of views, Arlen, Leesha, and Rojer. The story was told over a span of about 15 years. You got to know eac...
I have just finished The Painted Man. In fact, I started it on Saturday and didn't want to stop reading. I finished it early the Monday morning. Impressive, considering I've a house full of kids. I liked it--loved it. It's part of a trilogy. I have the next book, The Desert Spear, next to me and alr...
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