At first, Will's first tour of duty as a full-fledged Ranger seems routine, almost boring, but that changes abruptly when the king is poisoned. Without warning, the young warrior finds himself enmeshed into desperate situations never described in any training manual. Book Five of John Flanagan's Ranger's Apprentice space opera is a corker!
A real, classic adventure story is becoming increasingly hard to come by. Sure, you can find tales of magic and dragons—and don’t get me wrong, I love magic and dragons—but sometimes you just want to read a classic fantasy where the characters fight with swords instead of wands, and ride horses instead of winged animals. […]