In the third book in the Demon Cycle series, interspersed with flashbacks of Inavera’s life which let us see what’s already happened from a perspective that I couldn’t care less about, The Daylight War sees us treading water a little in the run-up to the eventual face off between humanity and the demons that stalk the land. Ahmann Jardir is partway through his conquest of the west and still has Leesha and Rojer as his ‘guests’ at Everam’s Bounty. While Jardir tries to convince Leesha […]

The second book in the Demon Cycle series, Desert Spear takes us away from Thesa and into Krasia, the country whose warrior culture has seen them become the only people to have taken up demon fighting and whose leader, Jardir, has taken the Spear of Kaji from Arlen and pronounced himself Deliverer.  As well as being warriors, the Krasian’s are also deeply religious and believe that before they can end demonkind in a Battle Royale, first they must conquer the known world, putting them on […]

My friend has been pressing me to read this series for a while now, and The Painted Man (apparently called The Warded Man outside of the UK) has made me wonder why I didn’t pay more attention to him before now. It’s been a while since I’ve read some proper fantasy, and this book made me realise how much I’d missed it.  In this world, science and machinery are artefacts of the old world, its knowledge forgotten and its former strongholds now crumbling ruins. The […]