All of our contests have ended in the last week or so, and we’ve been a bit busy going next level in ’09, but today I have something pretty cool for you. I have five signed copies of The Warded Man by Peter Brett. I read this book quite a while ago (BTW this was titled as The Painted Man in the UK). This is being published this month by Del Rey.
I’m going to have one of my triple threat editions in Jan-ken-pon touching on this book and two others very soon. I also have the definitive Brett interview that will be live in the near future. I want to save my load for my column but this is a very nice, highly enjoyable, fantasy debut. Definitely Tomio approved and in a very conflicting way – which I will get into later.
Synopsis:
The time has come to stand against the night.
As darkness falls each night, the corelings rise–demons who well up from the ground like hellish steam, taking on fearsome form and substance. Sand demons. Wood demons. Wind demons. Flame demons. And gigantic rock demons, the deadliest of all. They possess supernatural strength and powers and burn with a consuming hatred of humanity. For hundreds of years the demons have terrorized the night, slowly culling the human herd that shelters behind magical wards–symbols of power whose origins are lost in myth and mystery, and whose protection is terrifyingly fragile.
It was not always this way. Once, men and women battled the corelings on equal terms. Once, under the leadership of the legendary Deliverer, and armed with powerful wards that were not merely shields but weapons, they took the battle to the demons . . . and stopped their advance.
But those days are gone. The fighting wards are lost. Night by night the demons grow stronger, while human numbers dwindle under their relentless assault.
Now, with hope for the future fading, three young survivors of vicious demon attacks will dare the impossible, stepping beyond the crumbling safety of the wards to risk everything in a desperate quest to regain the secrets of the past.Arlen will pay any price, embrace any sacrifice, for freedom. His grim journey will take him beyond the bounds of human power.
Crippled by the demons that killed his parents, Rojer seeks solace in music–only to discover that music can be a weapon as well as a refuge.
Beautiful Leesha, who has suffered at the hands of men as well as demons, becomes an expert healer. But what cures can also harm. . . .
Together, they will stand against the night.
I’d like to thank Del Rey and Peter Brett for making this happen and allowing BSC to present this contest our readers!
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