Leesha and Rojer are still working with the villagers and the ways in which they grow up and develop are very believable. Brett has managed to create some great characters in this series and has put them in a very vividly imagined world for us to follow. However, don’t take that as a criticism because while plot gives the book purpose, the characters and the setting are the things that give it real substance. Arlen is determined to teach the people to fight and help to rid the world of demons. Jardir is determined to take over the northern lands and raise a huge army to follow him and rid the world of demons. The plot is fairly simple for the most part. Fortunately, the latter parts of the book delivered what I was hoping for and brought the two stories together again, although I would still have happily skipped the earlier sections. It filled in a few gaps but I was quite impatient for the story to continue, following Arlen, Leesha and Rojer battling demons and teaching the villagers of Deliverer’s Hollow to fend for themselves. Instead of picking up where book one left off, it instead switched perspective from Arlen to Jardir and went over much of the same ground as book one. Brett’s follow-up, ‘The Desert Spear’, to be slow going. For if one great leader unites the land, they may end the demon plague once and for all.Īfter racing through and loving ‘The Painted Man’, I found the first hundred or so pages of Peter V. Only one of them can be the true Deliverer but powerful demons hunt them both. While Arlen brings hope and courage to the people, Jardir brings fear and death.

His name was once Arlen Bales, a young man who painted his body with wards simply to survive after Jardir betrayed him. Yet, not everyone is convinced he is the real Deliverer as another man fights the demons and seeks to free the northern lands.

He is determined to lead his people to great victory over the demons and all the cowardly northern peoples will kneel before him. Jardir has declared himself Shar’Dama Ka, the Deliverer returned.

The desert spear series