![]() Death is rampant thanks to the demon and as such breeding is maintenance of the population has become not only a biological imperative but cornerstone of the social lives of the people that inhabit Brett’s world.Īna over at the Book Smugglers in her review of The Warded Man mentions the importance of mother’s in the story and the empowered nature of women as a result of that importance. Humanity is trapped, clustered together into frightened huddled masses desperately clinging to life during the daylight hours and cowering in fear during the night. The world of Brett’s Demon Trilogy is one nightly besieged by vicious demons bent on eradicating life, human or animal, that stands in in their path. ![]() Sexuality and sexual politics are not aspects I immediately sit down to think about when reading an epic fantasy but when an author weaves those aspects so closely into the narrative of their world they deserve some discussion. ![]() ![]() Few books are as enjoyable and as simultaneously able to make me uncomfortable as Peter Brett’s The Warded Man and The Desert Spear. ![]()
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