Ranger's Apprentice; 1.
Will is a boy who has been in the ward for as long as he could remember. He is humiliatingly small for his age but fast on his feet and amazingly quick witted. For his whole life Will has dreamed of becoming one of the greatest knight's like his father he never knew and is devastated when he is rejected by Castle Redmont's Battleschool because he is too small. Instead he is apprenticed to Halt, the mysterious ranger whose uncanny ability to move unssen is thought to be the result of black magic. Rather reluctantly, Will learns to use the secret weapons of a Rander, a bow and arrow, a mottled cloak and a little stubborn pny that does amazing things. They may not be the powerful sword and large battlehorse that Will expected, but when Will and Halt set out on a desperate and dangerous mission to prevent something happening to the King, Will finds that being a Ranger and using a Ranger's weapon is not what he thought it would be.
The best thing about this book is that it's a very good read and it's action-packed, full of surprises, secrets and monsters, everything you could look for in an adventure novel.
I don't like how in the book it talks about how Horace, one of the other kids at the ward, was constantly bullied to the extent that he was really close to getting kicked out of Battleschool, but that's life I guess and it was resolved with the help of Halt and I thought that was pretty awesome.
If you like this book you might enjoy The Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini.
A quiet place might be advisable if you wish to be fully engrossed in this novel.
Rating: 5/5
Review by Kaitlin Larney
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