from tcgardner

I am usually a little leery of debut novels. The books are good but the whole package needs some work. Peter Brett needs no polish. I loved this book. Mankind has been beaten down. Man hides in his hovels at night and cringes in fear of the demons. Slowly mankind is dying. Arlen does not understa...

from Amanda.Richards

Wow! Loved it! I won this book through the Goodreads Giveaways and didn't have time to read it immediately so it sat on my book shelf for a few months. Fast forward and I finally have time to read it. I am sitting home bored and rummage through my over flowing shelves of books and come across thi...

from Narilka

Each night corelings rise, demons from the underworld with supernatural powers and a hatred of human kind. It has been so for hundreds of years with humans slowly losing the battle of attrition with the demons even as they hide behind the relative safety of their wards. In the small hamlet of Tib...

from elbakerone

Peter V. Brett brings a fresh fantasy story to life in his debut novel The Warded Man. Set in a world where strange varieties of demons rise from the ground every night to wreak havoc on dwindling populations of humans, hope for survival comes from the magical powers of wards. The runes offer pro...

from renkellym

I completely fell in love with The Warded Man. It's so brilliantly crafted; all three perspectives were written wonderfully and believably, and the story was fast-paced yet developed fully. I loved each of the perspectives the same- I couldn't pick a favorite! I did notice the underlying, ahem, r...