Spaced in between chapters about Arlen are ones focusing on two other characters: a teenage girl named Leesha, who lives in a small village, and a small boy, Rojer, whose life takes an unexpected turn and leads him to the life of a Jongleur. His secret desire to travel the world and rediscover the lost offensives wards that can kill demons! The tragic loss and disgust at people’s fear of the demons leads Arlen on a desperate trek across the nighttime landscape, where he unwittingly discovers his almost uncanny ability to recognize and draw wards.īarely escaping death at the hands of demons, Arlen is found by a Messenger (A group of specially trained and armed warriors who travel the land with their Jongleurs, entertaining the peasants, trading goods and delivering messages for the rulers of the land.) who takes him back to one of the Free Cities, where the young boy soon begins his training to ultimately become a Messenger himself. And the worst part is that man has no way to even harm these demons!īut things begin to change when a young boy named Arlen loses his mother to demons while his father cowers in fear. But it is a very precarious existence, for if even one ward fail then the demons will immediately burst into a city or a home killing everyone within. Only by hiding behind special “wards” has a small remnant been able to escape total annihilation. In fact, the cause of the apocalypse was the rising of these demons from the underworld, which resulted in human kind almost being totally wiped out. Brett’s Demon Cycle series, it is set in a post-apocalyptic world where demons rule the night.

And after finishing this story, I have to admit that was very wise advice - at least where this book is concerned.įor those who haven’t read Mr. Brett’s name was constantly whispered in my ear as a writer whose work I must try at once. The Warded Man was a novel I’d heard a lot about from my reading friends.

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