Point of View

The novel is written in third person from an omniscient perspective that has some limitations. The limits are created so the author can provide twists and keep some pieces of information secret in order to build suspense. Will's curse is one example of this limitation. Will believes the demon Marbas has put a curse on him. Thus, he has spent the last five years keeping people from liking him in an effort to protect them from the curse. Will knows about the curse, but the details are not revealed at all in the first novel of this trilogy. He reveals the curse in this novel of the series, but the reader knows only that Will believes the curse is real until the moment Magnus figures out it was a lie.

The third-person perspective is necessary because events happen that involve various characters at various places...