{"id":1672,"date":"2019-09-04T15:00:34","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T21:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=1672"},"modified":"2019-08-15T10:44:05","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T16:44:05","slug":"book-the-daylight-war-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/04\/book-the-daylight-war-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: The Daylight War (2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TheThe Daylight War
\n<\/u><\/strong>Year: 2013
\nAuthor: Peter V. Brett
\nLength: 1,607 minutes \/ 26.78 hours<\/p>\n

I\u2019m glad to see that it only took two books for Peter V. Brett to cut down on some of the extraneous flashbacks and exposition in the Demon Cycle<\/em> series. While whole chunks of The Warded Man<\/em><\/a> could have been cut with nothing significant lost in the process, and The Desert Spear<\/em><\/a> had what appeared to be an unrelated storyline that weaved through the narrative, The Daylight War<\/em> has a minimal amount of this \u201cfluff.\u201d Granted, there is still some amount of world-building that helped to explain yet another aspect of this setting, but it\u2019s minimal in comparison to its predecessors.<\/p>\n

Additionally, I already knew this series was an adult fantasy from my experience with The Warded Man<\/em> and The Desert Spear<\/em>. These are tame when compared to the third entry in the series. The sex in this book made the previous two look like nuns in comparison. Sure, it could be argued that it \u201cadds to the plot\u201d in a few spots, but I\u2019m just used to it at this point. At any rate, the differences between the two different cultures hearken back to the European and Middle-eastern cultures that undoubtedly influenced them, which also would explain the adult nature of these books.<\/p>\n

As for the plot, the first two books seemed to set up the far superior plot in this book. While The Warded Man<\/em> followed one deliverer\u2019s path, and The Desert Spear<\/em> explored an equally-gifted deliverer from a different culture, The Daylight War<\/em> revealed how similar\u2014and how different\u2014these two men are. I don\u2019t know if I liked the \u201cmindreading\u201d aspect of these individuals\u2019 new power, as it seemed a little like lazy writing at times, but the addition of the warded skills to take on a severe threat from the demons was entertaining as always.<\/p>\n

An adult fantasy that has finally cut a lot of the fluff of its predecessors, I give The Daylight War<\/em> 4.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n

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