Although we saw her in The Painted Man and her relationship to Arlen, there, the Desert Spear promotes her to a full fledged character with conflicts, hopes and goals fully realized. In addition to Jardir and his extensive backstory, we get some other new point of view characters and some more backstories and filling in of events, especially with Renna Tanner. (It is no wonder that Brett has picked her to be highlighted in the third volume) In particular, Inevera, who becomes Jardir’s first and primary wife, leaps off of the page as an interesting person. Not coincidentally, this also allows us to get a view of Krasia culture and society from the inside, and we get a much more rounded view of it, and some of the characters we briefly glimpsed in Arlen’s visit there in The Warded Man. A good third of the early part of the novel is a single shot look at Jardir, bringing him from youth to his current position and rank. In Steven Erikson’s Malazan series, a major force of nature of a character, Karsa Orlong, is given a large unwavering point of view in House of Chains to explain his backstory and how he came to enter into the major conflicts in that series.īrett, in The Desert Spear, tries the same thing with Jardir. In contrast to the back and forth cutting between Arlen, Rojer and Leesha in the first novel, seeing how they rise to adulthood and prominence, The Desert Spear takes a very different approach with Jardir. However, redounding to his credit, Brett decides to expand the field by “promoting” a couple of characters to full point of view status, primarily Jardir of Kresia. Arlen, Rojer and Leesha provide three interesting, and different perspectives. It would have been easy for the author to continue the second novel on the heels of the first, and continue the narrative, intercut between his point of view characters as he did the first. Brett and second in his Demon Cycle series.

The Desert Spear is the second novel of Peter V.

Which of them is the real Deliverer? And is their inevitable conflict destined to doom them from facing the real threat of the Corelings? And, even more so, he has a plan for that army, and an ambition, perhaps a destiny, to reshape the world. Is it Arlen Boles, the so called Painted Man, who travels between the cities of the North, seeking to rally them against the coreling threat? Or is it Jardir, the Shar’Dama Ka of Krasia? He holds what is ostensibly a weapon of the Deliverer himself, and he has an army at his beck and call. But there are two men that might be the Deliverer. Rejoice! The Deliverer has come back to help mankind against the nightly threat of the demonic corelings that rise out of the earth every night.

The desert spear by peter v brett