After several months of anticipation for the paperback (I was too cheap to spring for the hardcover, and I don't own a Kindle, so that wasn't an option), Peter V. Brett's latest in what is being styled "The Demon Cycle" arrived in paperback. I bought The Desert Spear two days after it came out, only because the store in which I purchase most of my books receives its book shipments on Thursdays, and that was when it arrived. I started it that night, and finished it fairly quickly. The Desert Spear continues the narrative established in the first book, The Warded Man , in which the main character of Arlen Bales progresses in his fight against the demons that plague mankind in Brett's fictional world. We begin with an inside look at the rise of Jardir (ostensibly the human villain of the previous book), in a culture someone akin to the Arabic cultures of our own day, a culture based on battle and honor. The Krasians have a brutal way of life, but that is perha...
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