"The Demon King" by Cinda Williams Chima

Pages for the People
Oct 14, 2017
2 min read

Novel Blurb: "As a past thief in the mountain city of Fellsmarch, Han Alister will do anything for his sister and Mother.

One day, Han and his clan friend, Dancer, confront three young wizards. Micah Bayar, the son of High Wizard, carries an amulet which enables his magical abilities as a wizard.

In an act of protection for himself and Dancer, Han takes the amulet from Micah. He very soon learns that this particular amulet has an evil history and must never be touched by non-wizard hands.

The amulet in which Han keeps is sacred to the Demon King. He was once a wizard who planned to destroy the world a millennium ago.

Meanwhile back at the kingdom, character Raisa ana'Marianna the princess heir of the Fells, has her own problems to face.

As heir to the throne, she wants to be more than a prized procession to her mother and others.

But as a princess she has other things that are more important than saving and helping her people. Such as looking for a suitable husband after her sixteenth naming day"

Review:

WOW!! You can find my non-comprehensive review of this novel on my Goodreads page.

BUT, this book was such a good read, it was a little hard to get into but the drama hooked me in as well as the characters. All of the main characters stories made sense and their individual histories were really fasinating. I'm loving how they're histories interconnected with each other, and I was praying for most of the time that it wasn't going to be a 'City of Bones' or 'Game of Thrones' ending.

DO NOT MAKE THEM RELATED, I SWEAR!

I really enjoyed Han's perspective and was often trying to emotionally understand what he was going through.

The humour between Han and Raisa was very funny and through the whole entire book I was wishing that they would bounce into each other more than once.

Sometimes Raisa, the main female character, got on my nerves a bit. I had to learn to take a step back and to continue reading. Can’t wait to get into the next books to this series!