【 THE TRAITOR’S SON 】

book #1 in the Path of the Ranger series

The best thing I’ve read since Ranger’s Apprentice!

Genre: Middle Grade fantasy (epic)
Author: Pedro Urvi
Published: January 2020
Publisher: Independently published
Pages: 340 (paperback)

Here I was thinking nothing would ever be as good as the middle-grade adventure that is The Ruins of Gorlan (Ranger’s Apprentice), but fate put The Traitor’s Son in my hands and made my year.

I tried the audiobook for this on a whim, not sure what to expected, and ended up loving every minute. The narration is exceptionally good and the story is entertaining to the nth degree! This was a page-turner, with action on every page. I loved the motivation of the main character for joining up with the Ranger’s to try and clear his father’s name – it added an extra level to the story that I even Ranger’s Apprentice doesn’t have. And it’s got me excited to see how that will come into play going forwards (it’s an 18-book series, eek!)

There’s such a good sense of bad and evil in this, which make it super addictive, and the added fun of training that the initiates have to go through – or else face expulsion. Nothing makes middle grade better than some sort of competitive school, I swear.

Can’t recommend this enough, and can’t wait to keep reading.

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Title: The Traitor’s Son
Series title: Path of the Ranger
Author: Pedro Urvi
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A kingdom in danger, a great betrayal, a boy seeking to redeem his father’s honor. Will he succeed in exonerating him and saving the realm from an enemy in the shadows before it is too late for the whole North?

By the age of fifteen, Lasgol has endured a hard childhood and lives, cornered and hated, in a small village in the North. He is the son of the traitor, the man who betrayed the kingdom and tried to kill the King. His only companions are the mountains and the snow, ever-present in the region. Yet he refuses to believe that his father is guilty, in spite of all the evidence that points to the fact, even though the King himself was a witness to the betrayal.

Lasgol is determined to clear his father’s name, and to do this he has only a single option: the School of Rangers, a secret place where the respected and feared defenders of the lands of the kingdom are trained for four years. Going there is insane, hate and death await him. But as the son of a Ranger, he is entitled to attend.

At the Camp he will find himself involved in political intrigues, disloyalties and murder. He will encounter hatred and fearsome enemies, but also a handful of friends, novices as much out of place as he is himself, determined to do whatever is necessary to pass the first year… without dying in the attempt.

Will Lasgol survive the first year of instruction at the Rangers’ Camp? Will he find out what happened to his father? Will he be able to clear his name?