![]() ![]() ![]() And young Rojer?s life is changed irrevocably when a travelling minstrel comes to his town and plays his fiddle.īut these three children all have something in common. When she is only 13 summers old‚ Leesha?s perfect life is destroyed by a simple lie‚ and she is reduced to gathering herbs for an old woman more fearsome than the demons at night. ![]() It seems that nothing can stop or harm the corelings‚ and nothing can unite the dwindling populations.īorn into these isolated hamlets are three children: A Messenger teaches 10?year?old Arlen that it is fear‚ rather than the demons‚ which has crippled humanity. As darkness falls‚ the world?s few surviving humans hide behind magical wards‚ praying that the magic will see them through another night.Īs years passed‚ the distance between each tiny village stretched farther and farther. Summary: Mankind has ceded the night to the corelings: demons that rise up out of the ground each day at dusk‚ killing and destroying at will until dawn‚ when the sun banishes them back to the Core. Why did I read the book: This book received nothing but good reviews and praise from pretty much all fantasy blogs. Stand Alone or series: Book one in the Demon Trilogy Paperback560 pages (UK) / Hardcover: 432 pages (US) Publisher: HarperVoyager (UK) / Del Rey (US) Title: The Painted Man (UK) / The Warded Man (US) ![]()
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