The Royal Ranger

what a blast

I think I'll consider book 11 to be the official end of Ranger's Apprentice.

I did really enjoy this one, but I disliked how Will's motives were made how they were. I just feel bad for the characters and while I'm sure if wasn't the intent, what happens to Alice just didn't seem right. I suppose I'm just being sensitive since I really liked Alice and didn't think we ever got enough of her being awesome. .

Maddie is turning out to be an awesome character, I love how she is getting some more depth to her and growing. She makes me want to read on with this series, but I know I definitely need a break from this world since I'm becoming less interested in the stories.

This is 100% a series I'd recommend people read. It is lovely, funny, and there were times I teared up. It is fantastic.

I found it good that he brought the story full circle with Will being the Mentor to a new apprentice. It was a good way to end this series.

So I might have stayed up really late last night finishing this book. Devouring it whole is probably a fairly apt descriptor. And now I want to read it again. Reread the whole series, really.

The marketing of this series fascinates me. I know I need to check the children's section of my local bookshops if I want to find them. They are classified as juvenile fiction, or maybe sometimes as YA (I can't say as I have ever found them shelved in the YA/teen section, however). When the series starts, Will and his friends are fifteen years old, but by this last book they are, at an absolute minimum, in their mid-30s. That's a huge range of ages for a series of books aimed at children, but somehow it works.