{"id":1362,"date":"2019-01-24T15:00:47","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T22:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=1362"},"modified":"2019-01-18T11:21:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T18:21:19","slug":"book-the-warded-man-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/24\/book-the-warded-man-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: The Warded Man (2008)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/images.gr-assets.com\/books\/1388195766l\/6993490.jpg\" alt=\"The Warded Man\" width=\"289\" height=\"475\" \/>The Warded Man<br \/>\n<\/u><\/strong>Year: 2008<br \/>\nAuthor: Peter V. Brett<br \/>\nLength: 453 pages<\/p>\n<p>***THIS BOOK WAS RECEIVED FROM THE PUBLISHER***<\/p>\n<p>For anyone who thinks that fantasy is a childish genre, <em>The\u00a0Warded Man<\/em>\u00a0shows that it can have very adult themes. While this adds an element of realism by including sex and violence, it also means that the intended audience for this book should be mature enough to be able to pay attention. Unfortunately, this book takes a repetitive approach with its character arcs, almost as if writing for children who need the point constantly driven home. In the end, I\u2019m mostly just disappointed at what this book could have been instead of what it was.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure if there\u2019s a minimum page count\/word count for fantasy books, but\u00a0<em>The Warded Man<\/em>\u00a0seems to be an interesting novella, padded out with tons of unnecessary backstory\u2014or at least backstory that could be covered in a relevant line or paragraph when needed. I did like the concept and the magical system in this book. Heck, I thought the naming scheme for the minor characters was also quite brilliant. I just can\u2019t bring myself to suggest that people slog through over 450 pages of story that could have easily been covered in 150.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in a somewhat original fantasy story, you can literally pick up the book at the beginning of Part 3 and read to the end, and you won\u2019t miss much (if anything, you won&#8217;t get some establishing details). This was also exacerbated by the fact that at least one of these characters didn\u2019t have an interesting story until Part 3, so it was a bit annoying to have to jump over to his story when I\u2019d much rather read about the other two characters. As it\u2019s written right now, many of the characters\u2019 motivations are repeatedly brought up in similar situations, so all the first part of the book does is delay these three characters\u2019 inevitable meeting.<\/p>\n<p>A great concept for a novella with a ton of backstory tacked on the front, I give\u00a0<em>The Warded Man<\/em>\u00a03.5 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n<h2><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a01\/2<\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Warded Man Year: 2008 Author: Peter V. Brett Length: 453 pages ***THIS BOOK WAS RECEIVED FROM THE PUBLISHER*** For anyone who thinks that fantasy is a childish genre, The\u00a0Warded Man\u00a0shows that it can have very adult themes. While this adds an element of realism by including sex and violence, it also means that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,54],"tags":[126,1639,1640,55,789,114,1638,8,1637],"class_list":["post-1362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-5-stars","category-book","tag-126","tag-adult","tag-backstory","tag-book","tag-fantasy","tag-magic","tag-peter-v-brett","tag-review","tag-the-warded-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1364,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions\/1364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}