Fiction
– YA/Juvenile – Medieval
262
pages
Age
Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up
Publication
Date: 2005
Ranger's Apprentice #2
Literary
Awards: Children's Book Council of
Australia Award, International Success of the Year Award (2007)
Will
and Horace are sent on a special mission to their kingdom’s neighboring allies,
Celtica, to request help in their fight against Morgarath, but when they arrive
the towns are abandoned and frightening new information about Morgarath’s troop
movements forces them to rethink their plans.
With the safety of their kingdom hanging in the balance Will and Horace
must find a way to thwart Morgarath’s plan.
The
orchestration of this novel is leaps and bounds beyond the first. It has the quality that I had expected in the
first and is pretty much an improvement in every way. The story is more sophisticated and better
laid out making the alternating points of view more appropriate. The risk
factor is upped and better suited for making this an adventure story. With a quicker pace and more action it held
tightly onto my attention leaving in suspense of what was going to happen next. The battles were complex and interesting and
the ending was exciting and unexpected.
Again I enjoyed the lack of magic and found it unexpectedly refreshing. Occasionally the writing did trip me up and
pushed me out of the story world and I was a little surprised he didn’t draw
out the Morgarath storyline, but in comparison to everything else these were
minor distractions.
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