Book: The Demon Lord
Author: Peter Morwood
Rating: 8/10
This is the sequel to his first book; The Horse Lord,
It Took Aldric Tavalain four years of rigorous training under the wizard Gemmel to achieve his vengeance and retake his birthright, clan lord of Tavalain, lord of Dunrath hold.
But with memories of the people who died there and his family slaughtered by the evil wizard Klarr cu Ruruc he leaves the land of Alban and travels to the Imperial Empire, carrying a coded message in his head that not even he can read, only the person with the code words.
On reaching the Deep forest he meets a hunter Evthan and his niece Gueynor who tells him of a terrible beast that is killing the women and children of the area. Aldric decides to help catch this beast while learning about the overlord in that area and how he is in league with a demon conjurer.
Then when he hunts this beast he finds the truth, it is a werewolf, a changeling who has no control over his actions, but worse still it's his new friend and ally Evthan. The honourable thing to do is to kill the beast and let him depart this world in peace but as Aldric does he makes a shocking revelation, this is the overlords doing as a punishment for a crime, and that his supposed niece is actually the disowned heir to the city of Seghar.
Travelling there seems the only option but can they survive the plots that hang around the city and when an uprising is in the offing what will Gueynor do?
More importantly can Aldric and Marek the demon destroyer stop the stupid Overlord before the demon spirit he raises takes control and this and is turned to darkness under the evil power of Issaqua,
all his missions for Alban count for nothing now, it's survival and success that matters and only that. but with the blame of the old Overlords death resting on Aldric what shall happen??
This book is a rather hard book to convey in a review in My opinion, It is better than the first but also rather different, I really enjoyed both this book and the first and would recommend them both even if they don#t sound so appealing in the way I've worded the reviews.
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