Sunday, 1 November 2026

The Warded Man (Demon Cycle #1, Peter V Brett)

  1.  Survivors of a demon attack had a way of dying soon after
  2. Selia Barren? 
  3. It's pleasing to know what Graig thinks of me after all these years
  4. Thought.. he's dead
  5. Letters are all we have of them
  6. We cannot tell the rain when to come, nor the wind, nor the cold
  7. Free cities don't give their women much voice
  8. Jongleur's job is to entertain the kids while parents clean up coreling destruction - interesting concept shows Peter V Brett's understanding of parenting
  9. Also interesting concept of Messengers trained to deal with corelings on the road and fear
  10. I called Selia Barren to her face this morning. That's twice. Rusco Hog
  11. Rusco making a tidy profit,  giving everyone the option to trade everyday
  12. Good Marsh rice
  13. Hog cheats kids of gold pieces and trades for a carved wood game. Laughed heartily when miller thanked him
  14. No death price for Messenger dying at home
  15. My guild brothers and I have sworn that she won't become a beggar
  16. Laktonians are safe from non water demons
  17. Great wards are lost.. Men want to fight
  18. Ignorance of Arlen and a great big world with 5 kingdoms
  19. Cobie ent a rock demon
  20. Scared to die, scared to live. Should have died fighting
  21. Age of science
  22. After 3000 years no one believed they existed - we forgot magic and were unprepared 
  23. Arlen knew his father was ashamed. Arlen could find no sympathy. His mother had paid the price for his father's cowardice. 
  24. We's promised now. Renna
  25. You've already got someone to take care of your thingie! At least,  until she gets killed too, because you're too scared to help her
  26. Arlen, I'm sorry...!
  27. Succor
  28. Howled with delight
  29. Arlen is braver
  30. I think Arlen is going to draw wards on his body like tattoos and it'll be a secret from the Age of ignorance
  31. I just realised what the main character will do in the future from the book's cover and it's pretty cool now that I realise what it's about
  32. The crone lives because of her you idiot
  33. She wished her father would stand up to her (Elona) for once
  34. Erny hung his head
  35. Besides they'd probably give her back
  36. Science as much as magic 
  37. Choose a book. Any book.  I'll show you what else the world can offer
  38. The hag's ears are still sharp
  39. Keep your manhood slack for of year 
  40. Being village healer is more than brewing Potions
  41. Bruna
  42. Elona hypocrite
  43. We are what we choose to be girl. Let others determine your worth, and you've already lost, because no one wants people worth more than themselves. 
  44. Leesha
  45. Enjoy the fruits of your lie because I'll give myself to the night before I let you make it a reality
  46. I never could sunlight. I'll always love you as well. 
  47. Her father the only friend she had left in the world
  48. Even holy men are men
  49. Secrets of science
  50. Did you take Leesha's flower? Speak up!
  51. And I hope one day to make you proud of me, as well
  52. Backstories and seeing each of their worldview break, which causes them to turn into their main character trope, are pretty cool
  53. Clear main character roles vs sprawling Wheel of Time mystery where bunch of characters are thrown into chaos and it's not clear who is who
  54. A central theme in the warded (painted) man is that evil reigns when men are silent or weak but in the literal sense of males
  55. Arrick the coward and Piter the negligent warder
  56. His mother could have been cured by a weed he regularly pulled from Jeph's field? It was just too much
  57. Quick to laugh, held no grudges, but he demanded respect and let you know where you stood
  58. Graig died a Messenger, the guild's ruling be damned
  59. Of course not! An offended duke can make a man's life difficult but not half so much as an offended wife!
  60. Euchor only cares about gold coal lost combat wards
  61. The boy's wards cut the arm off a rock demon
  62. But it's clear she wants the job. Would it be so bad to let her have it?
  63. He admitted to himself if no one else he was beginning to like Lady Elissa fussing over him 
  64. Arlen confronts Keerin
  65. If this is what I want, I have to work harder. 
  66. "For he shall be marked upon his bare flesh and the demons will not abide the sight" - that must be Arlen
  67. Erny refused to see his daughter live in squalor, sent carpenters
  68. We don't do things so quickly in the hollow but you may carry my basket
  69. Hurting with herbs is easy, it's healing with them that's hard
  70. Swapping apprentices 
  71. Pack your things and say your goodbyes. You'll bring that advice to Jizell personally. 
  72. Bruna's eyes were wet. You've mastered all I can teach you,  girl, so let these years be my last gift to you. Go, see and learn as much as you can. 
  73. They can be stupid and wilful, but there's good in them, when the night is dark
  74. The entire town and Erny was waiting for her 
  75. Cob isn't young and loves you like a son. Would it be such a curse to take over his shop and marry that pretty girl I've seen you with?
  76. We have nothing more to say
  77. I think he's trying to desperately feel alive
  78. The moments I had with him were worth all the ones apart.
  79. I think the risk of losing his life made him appreciate how precious it is, and sparked an instinct in him that would never allow him to die
  80. I'm sorry I could not be what everyone wanted. 
  81. I don't care! I have to try!
  82. All she wanted now was to find him before he left and tell him that she loved him and that she found continue loving him no matter what he chose to do. 
  83. Creator, Arlen. Of course I understand
  84. Then he wept
  85. One day I wish to see the land that makes noble men like the son of Jeph
  86. By night my enemy becomes my brother
  87. Krasia part too closely aligned with Arabia?
  88. I was meant to die a long time ago, and everyone that tries to save me ends up dead
  89. I'll take my chances. We survivors need to look out for one another
  90. Rojer and Leesha random
  91. There's no need for sexual content
  92. She wanted to throw down the spear and wrap him in her arms
  93. Leesha wanted to scream
  94. It's coincidence then that you showed up in our hour of need?
  95. It is not you that should fear them, Benn the glass blower! It is they that should fear you!
  96. All of you are Deliverers. 
  97. Wards tapped into the demons magic using the corelings own power against them
  98. Loved this book but wish Leesha had been left alone and not ravished. Also think it was a bit sudden how Arlen Leesha and Rojer collided into each other's paths
  99. 4.8-4.9/5