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moirahelisabeth 's review for:
The Warded Man
by Peter V. Brett
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The only reason this has half a star is because the world building is actually kind of cool. I like the background history of the demon war and losing wards over time and rediscovering them. The herb gatherers are cool. I am actually going to base a D&D character off of an herb gatherer in this book. Other than that, what a horrible book. It just makes me sad that this really awesome world where demons literally come up from the core of the earth to fight in a war against humans gets tarnished by bad writing.
First of all, blatant racism and sexism all throughout the book. You can make this work for you, but Brett forgets to. It just works against him. A severe lack of diversity. The only diversity is these desert people who are supposed to be Muslims and have a culture you’re supposed to hate. This author has a very American view of the world. I read fantasy to escape the world, not read a book that shoves me right back into it.
I get that the racism and sexism is the point in some cases, but it barely adds to the plot or character development. As a woman this book was very hard to read. I don’t think this author understands women at all. Part of the book is written from a woman’s point of view, but you can tell a man wrote it. A man who might have never even met a woman.
There are too many unnecessary rape/incest scenes. Again, I get that these are supposed to add to the plot or character development or whatever but they don’t. They are unnecessary. Too much sexualizing children. Just disgusting. I hope I never meet the man who wrote this book.
I might be able to forgive some of this if the plot was somewhat good. But from a plot point, the time leaps skip the most important character development parts. We skip ahead in the timeline and the protagonist is just a different person every time and we don’t get to go through that character development with him. It’s just lazy writing. When hediscovers the spear and wards himself with tattoos the author just rushes past it. It is anticlimactic and boring. He just becomes OP and the other characters are rendered useless (i can imagine, though this might change in the rest of the series). Don’t read this book.
First of all, blatant racism and sexism all throughout the book. You can make this work for you, but Brett forgets to. It just works against him. A severe lack of diversity. The only diversity is these desert people who are supposed to be Muslims and have a culture you’re supposed to hate. This author has a very American view of the world. I read fantasy to escape the world, not read a book that shoves me right back into it.
I get that the racism and sexism is the point in some cases, but it barely adds to the plot or character development. As a woman this book was very hard to read. I don’t think this author understands women at all. Part of the book is written from a woman’s point of view, but you can tell a man wrote it. A man who might have never even met a woman.
There are too many unnecessary rape/incest scenes. Again, I get that these are supposed to add to the plot or character development or whatever but they don’t. They are unnecessary. Too much sexualizing children. Just disgusting. I hope I never meet the man who wrote this book.
I might be able to forgive some of this if the plot was somewhat good. But from a plot point, the time leaps skip the most important character development parts. We skip ahead in the timeline and the protagonist is just a different person every time and we don’t get to go through that character development with him. It’s just lazy writing. When he
Content Warnings
Graphic: Incest, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Sexual harassment, War