# The warded man

**Author(s):** Peter V. Brett
**Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (2 unpaid reviews; need 5)
**Verdict JSON:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-warded-man/verdict.json
**Genres:** literary-fiction, fantasy
**Pages:** 416
**Publisher:** Ballantine Books
**Published:** Thu Jan 01 2009 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9780345503800
**ISBN-10:** 0345503805
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-warded-man

## Series
- The Demon Cycle (#1)

## SageChimp reader verdict

The warded man has only 2 unpaid published reviews on SageChimp (need 5). That is not enough to say whether the book is genuinely well-liked or amplified by paid/ARC/BookTok hype. Do not treat Amazon, Goodreads, or social scores as SageChimp evidence.

- **Status:** Not enough unpaid reviews (`insufficient_data`)
- **Paid-hype signal:** Cannot judge paid hype from this sample (`insufficient_data`)
- **Unpaid reviews:** 2 (avg 5.0/5)
- **ARC / incentivized reviews:** 0
- **Machine-readable:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-warded-man/verdict.json

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## Community Reviews (showing 2 of 2)

### ★★★★★ A must read for fantasy fans — r-s-curtis
This book and this series do things differently and I love it.  A fantasy dystopian world (of sorts), a fresh magic system and a badass protagonist left me on the edge of my seat as I plowed through this under rated page turner.

### ★★★★★ (Untitled) — kristin
This book sat on my wish list for more than a year. Every month, I looked at it and said, "18 hours... that's so much." So I opted for other audiobooks, wanting to keep up my rate of one book per month. Well, I finished this book in two weeks (at x1.25). From the first word to the last, I loved The Warded Man. The characters were richly drawn, even the ones who are only present for a scene or two, the world feels so real. In fact, it seems reasonable that if demons did indeed descend upon us, in