Saturday, April 30, 2011

Rangers Apprentice: Erak's Ransom

The Ranger's Apprentice Book 7 was written by John Flanagan. It's an adventure that follows Will, Halt's apprentice. Once they get separated it alternates every chapter between following Will, then switches to Halt, Horace, Svengal, Cassandra, and Gilan. This book constantly shows a theme of friendship, like when Will goes off on his own to try and find his horse, Tug. Basically, the story starts out with a wedding between Halt and Lady Pauline, which is unusual because of their positions. During the wedding they find out that Erak, the Oberjarl of the Scandians, has been captured and has a ransom of 80 thousand silver reels, which is A LOT of money. After the wedding they all go to Al Shabah to help Erak. Once they get there they find out that they have to go through the desert to get to him, but on their way there there are a few unexpected turn of events which leads to Will needing to rescue everyone else.This book is interesting, and entertaining. It has a lot of things in it that help the story along that most people wouldn't even realize has anything to do with it until later. It's just plain entertaining when it gets to the battles, at least more entertaining than the rest of the book. This book is pretty amazing all around, but you need to start at the beginning of the series.

2 comments:

Mrs. Jensen said...

How is the series overall? I have been wondering if reading it is worth my time. Does anyone have an opinion on it?

TDGandBVB said...

Well, It took almost the entire month for the 8th book to finally be back in the library, and I refused to read any other book(s)even though I just finished it today.