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The Painted Man by Peter V. Brett
With the impending release of Peter V. Brett’s The Daylight War, the latest installment of his Demon Cycle, I thought the time was ripe to have a look back at where it all started, with a fresh review of The Painted Man. I read this book for the first time recently and if it lay […]
Top 10 Anticipated Fantasy Books for 2013 – Readers’ Choice
For the last few years we’ve run articles where we’ve chosen our top 10 most anticipated novels for the coming year. They’ve proved overwhelmingly popular, amassing just shy of 200,000 hits in total! As a result, we decided last year to take things a step further and ask the publishers what their top 5 most […]
Peter V. Brett’s The Daylight War Cover-Off
In my opinion, Peter V. Brett is one of the finest examples of a modern fantasy author. For those of you who don’t know why I’m such a huge fan of Peter V. Brett, you can read reviews for The Painted Man and The Desert Spear to find out. To summarise it for you though, Peter V. […]
The Great Bazaar by Peter V. Brett
Last year I reluctantly read The Painted Man. I say reluctantly because everyone told me that I had to read it but based on the tagline, ‘Sometimes, there is very good reason to be afraid of the dark,’ and the generic hooded figure on the cover it looked like another run of the mill fantasy […]
Brayan’s Gold by Peter V.Brett
The Painted Man and The Desert Spear are among my favourite books ever written. Not only is the story absolutely brilliant, but Peter V. Brett’s writing is just simply, what I like to call: readable. Creating a fantasy world that drags you in and has an atmosphere that terrifies you and yet keeps you gripped […]
The Warded Man by Peter V. Brett
To Arlen the night was a thing to be feared. In his world things didn’t just lurk in the night, they owned it. The only safe place to be when the sun set, was behind magical warding symbols. The only way to live through the coreling demons’ nightly onslaughts was to hide and pray that […]
Peter V. Brett Interview
Peter V. Brett has done something to Fantasy that very, very few authors before him have managed. He has burst into the genre and written a book that is ‘damned cool’. Now, let us not understate the importance of this. Fantasy is geeky and we love it for that reason… but Brett was able to […]
The Character Building of Peter V. Brett
Greetings, Fantasy-Faction readers! As one of the newest members of the team, I would like to take this opportunity to thank both the overlords of the site as well as you fine folks for the chance to rant regularly about the current state of awesomeness that is fantasy fiction. Seriously, have you read this stuff? […]
Fantasy Books We NEED Now
Overlord’s Top 4 Fantasy Books We Need Right Now 2012/2013 seems a long way off, but I’m looking to it already…dreaming…wishing it would hurry the heck up!!! Some of the genres most exciting authors are busy writing their stories and it’s an exciting time for a genre that seems to have evolved nicely over the […]
The Desert Spear by Peter V. Brett
Editor’s Note: This review contains minor spoilers for The Painted Man (The Warded Man). Read with caution if you have yet to finish the first book. You can read Overlord’s review of The Painted Man here. Peter V. Brett literally exploded onto the scene in 2008/2009 when his first novel was released into the world of […]
The Painted Man by Peter V. Brett
Firstly, let me say that The Painted Man is a special, special book. I want to declare this book ‘The single best novel I have ever read.’ There is a series that I would rate higher as a collective than this (see my Night Angel Trilogy review), but in terms of a single novel – […]
