Normally, I would say flashbacks can detract from the story but Newman has provided them sparingly and with content which is relevant. There are also flashbacks, and scenes from the various demons perspectives that complicate the telling of the story. I needed to rely more on impressions rather than a feel for "being there". The path is arduous, the purpose of the mission is cloudy at best, but there is always a small glimmer of hope to keep The Vagrant moving forward.The Vagrant has a steep learning curve, with Newman simplying dropping you into the story armed with very little information. The flow on effect of this thought was at times (to me anyway) there was a humanisation of the Demons, their desire for individuality and autonomy was very prevalent and in a somewhat abstract thought - could this then be seen as a universal desire or just something leached from the human host?There is a truism in the reading of the Vagrant, that people are the same regardless of whether they are Demon tainted or not, that they will survive by any means and resist even when the idea of hope is just that - a dream long forgotten, secreted away within their heart. as I await the April 2017 release of the final novel, "The Seven" - although I think the audio release will be much later. It might just be me, but I felt a love for Tolkien's Middle Earth running through these pages - it wasn't obvious but I feel certain I detected it.By the time the half way point is reached I was under The Vagrants spell and sped towards the end, which found both satisfying and poignant. I didn't really get into this book until the Vagrant and his companions reached Verdigree, which was a full third of the way into the book, but after that I slowly started to fall in love with this book, especially when characters like Harm and The Hammer were introduced. It is a grim, gritty setting that makes the small beacons of hope and humanity shine so much brighter by contrast.The last thing I want to talk about was my experience listening to the audio edition of The Vagrant. It is definitely a dystopia and much is like that found in post-apocalyptic fiction. I found the dystopian world intriguing, the demonic beings and their motivations fascinating and the protagonists, including the goat, engaging. Reading text may be the easiest way to consume this novel, but the audiobook is by far the best way to consume this book, so if you have the choice and the means, make sure you experience Jot Davies' wondrous telling of this story.The Vagrant is his name. In the end I feel much the same as I did when I finished Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson, that you can read through this book multiple times and continue to find cool things that you missed first time around.I've been reading a lot of post-apocalypse books lately, but this is the first one in a long time to set it in a fantasy world with swords, necromancy, mutations, demons, and some advanced technology. This is the first time I have read a novel in which the hero is mute and while this was mostly enjoyable, I would have liked a little more expression and movement while he was interacting with his worldThis inability to speak is a relatively new event to the Vagrant, and I believe the character would have benefited from more unspoken (yes a pun!) I hung in there and, by chapter 3, I was hooked. It poses the question, how do you find the will to go on when the world around you has imploded and the people with the power to help you have abandoned you to your doom? They feel more like refugees than invading army but I could be completely off here. Persevere with this book, and you shall be rewarded.The story follows a man known only as the Vagrant, a baby, and a goat as they journey through the demon-infested southern regions of the continent. A big shout out to Jot Davies for his superb narration (he now ranks in my top 3 favourite narrators) - each cast member had a distinctive voice (including the baby and each demonic entity). This is the story of the book and as the narrative progresses, segmented into far past, recent past and present, I became grealty enamoured and empathetic towards all three, plus the goat and a character called Harm who joins them. Well done.I found The Vagrant difficult to keep the story-line in perspective. The story-line was maybe a bit too convenient to offer realism.
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