Bibliograph

The painted man, Peter V. Brett

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The painted man, Peter V. Brett

Language

eng

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maps

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no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

The painted man

Responsibility statement

Peter V. Brett

Series statement

The Demon cycle, 1

Summary

Eleven-year-old Arlen lives with his parents on their small farmstead, half a day's ride from the isolated hamlet of Tibbet's Brook. As dusk falls upon Arlen's world, a strange mist rises from the ground; a mist that promises a violent death to any foolish enough to brave the coming darkness, for hungry corelings - demons that cannot be harmed by mortal weapons - materialize from the vapours to feed on the living. As the sun sets, people have no choice but to take shelter behind magical wards and pray that their protection holds until the creatures dissolve with the first signs of dawn. When Arlen's life is shattered by the demon plague, he is forced to see that it is fear, rather than the demons, which truly cripples humanity

Target audience

adult

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