【 PATH OF THE SPECIALIST 】

book #6 in the Path of the Ranger series

Genre: Fantasy
Audience: Middle grade
Author: Pedro Urvi
Published: July 2020
Publisher: Independently published
Pages: 521 (paperback)

This series is a lot of fun and this is probably one of my favourite books in it so far.

I love the way that the series is maturing and that you get to follow along with the characters as they progress from students, to rangers, to specialists-in-training. It’s a really cool development of the plot that we get in book 6 and it’s got me even more invested in the rest of the series than I already was.

We meet some new characters – some interesting in a bad way, and some in a good way – and we take our time exploring some really cool and specialised skills within the ranger specialties.

I also appreciate the way that Urvi wasn’t afraid to split up the core group, having 3 of them essentially not in (at least the main part) of the story but keeping them in touch, or more importantly perhaps, keeping the reader in touch so we don’t forget about them. It has me looking forward to the ways they might come back into the story in future books.

This is just a great instalment, full of fun and twisty things, and the specialisations were really cool. Cannot recommend this series enough if you’re looking for a solid epic-fantasy style book that is reminiscent of the Ranger’s Apprentice series.

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Title: Path of the Specialist
Series: Path of the Ranger
Author: Pedro Urvi
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The moment has come to follow the Path of the Specialist. Will our friends attain the elite specialties they are aiming for?

Training at the Shelter, led by the Mother Specialist and tutored by the four Elder Specialists, is turning out to be more intense than any of them had expected. The Proficiency Test will determine their future, and they will have to prepare and practice harder then ever if they want to graduate with the highly-valued elite specialties.

But that is not their only concern. They will have to face new mysteries, strange characters, unusual situations, dangerous experiments, bewitched jewels, great predators, conspiracies and murder attempts in a place that oozes arcane power thousands of years old.

Will they achieve all this? Will they solve the mysteries that surround them? Who will reach the elite specialization? Who will fail? Who will survive and who will die?