Reviews by Tag: adventure

Teen Review
The Sorcerer of the North by John Flanagan

The Sorcerer of the North

By John Flanagan
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Feb 19, 2023

In this fifth iteration of the twelve books in the Ranger’s Apprentice series, we get to see... more
Skandians! If you weren’t sure about this book at first, I bet you are now because it contains the
only other thing keeping you reading this series past the first book besides Will’s horse. I’m
joking of course: everyone knows that it's Will’s musical ability that keeps us reading! But in all
seriousness, with more intrigue than we have ever seen in a Ranger Apprentice book with... one

Teen Review
The Battle for Skandia by John Flanagan

The Battle for Skandia

By John Flanagan
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Feb 19, 2023

In this fourth iteration of the twelve books in the Ranger’s Apprentice series, you get to see the
future greatness of the series begin to unfold. Princess, former Ranger, former Knight, little
Ranger, and popular pirate coming together to fight a battle together (if this sounds like a disaster
waiting to happen, you’d be... wrong). In this book you get a flash back into Halt and ranger
history as the dynamic group form an unholy alliance against the Temujai (I caught what you did

Teen Review
 The Icebound Land by John Flanagan

The Icebound Land

By John Flanagan
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Feb 14, 2023

In this third iteration of the twelve books in the Ranger’s Apprentice series, we get to see the
formation of the greatest power duo that the literary world may have ever been faced with:
Horace and Halt. This book is an interesting new style from the author where it switches back
from a princess and a ranger stuck in slavery (their names are Will and Evanlyn: I hope you can
tell which one is the princess) and a prince stuck with a former battleschool student (just kidding,

Teen Review
The Burning Bridge by John Flanagan

The Burning Bridge

By John Flanagan
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Feb 14, 2023

In this second iteration of the twelve books in the Ranger’s Apprentice series, we revisit our
beloved character Will. Now marked with fame by his contest against the Kalkara and his rescue
of his even more famous master Halt, he is sent on a mission in preparation for war against the
exiled lord Morgarath. But this falls to pieces when Will, accompanied by Halt’s former
apprentice Gilan and his friend Horace, finds the neighboring lands of Celtica deserted, a lost girl

Teen Review
The Ruins of Gorlan by John Flanagan

The Ruins of Gorlan

By John Flanagan
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Feb 14, 2023

In this first iteration of the twelve books in the Ranger’s Apprentice series, a boy named Will
become-though this may come as a surprise to some people-a ranger’s apprentice. Will, a
scrawny fifteen-year-old boy finds himself learning the ways of rangers after being taken in by
the famous and rather grim ranger Halt after being rejected from battle school, the one thing he
had always wanted in life. This is a result of believing that his father had died as a knight and

Teen Review
The Princess Bride by William Goldman

The Princess Bride

By William Goldman
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Mariam S.
Jan 3, 2023

The precursor to a film of the same name, The Princess Bride is a story
about a story - a fairy tale told to a young boy by his father. Of course,
not without lots of editing to ensure that only the good parts are left
in. The reader is left with a tale of swordplay, true love, evil men,
escape from death, and plenty of humor. The story starts with a young
bride whisked away by assassins that plan to kill her and pin her death on

Teen Review
Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

Shadow and Bone

By Leigh Bardugo
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Nischay R.
Aug 10, 2022

Mal and Alina are orphans who grow up in military service. They are great
friends but then a military conflict happens and Alina is drafted by a
mysterious figure called the Darkling to be a Grisha. Alina is learning what
it means to be a Grisha while the Darkling takes a special interest in her
because she has the powers of a sun summoner which have been gone for
centuries. She has to run from the palace though when Baghra reveals the
Darkling’s true colors and reveals that he intends to bind Alina with a

Teen Review
Max & the Midknights: The Tower of Time by Lincoln Pierce

Max & the Midknights: The Tower of Time

By Lincoln Pierce
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Ethan
Jul 24, 2022

Max is a young girl who is a knight-in-training, and is part of a group of adventurers known
as the Midknights. She has just learned that she has a twin sister, named Mary, and wants to
become reunited with her and learn more about their past. However, Mary is on the run for the
many crimes that she has commited, and can be nowhere to be find. In order to find her sister and
learn more about her past, Max must go on a journey with the Midknights to find Mary and travel

Teen Review
Max & the Midknights by Lincoln Pierce

Max & the Midknights

By Lincoln Pierce
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Ethan
Jul 24, 2022

Max is a young troubadour traveling with Uncle Budrick across the land. However, Max
doesn’t want to be a troubadour, but instead a knight. Max is soon given the chance to become a
hero when both her and Uncle Budrick arrive in Byjovia. There they find out that King Gastley
has taken control of the kingdom, making Byjovia no longer the great land it once was. To make
matters worse, Max’s uncle is soon taken away by Gastley and sent to his palace! In order to save
the kingdom and her uncle, Max must form a group of adventurers known as the Midknights, and

Teen Review
Max & the Midknights: Battle of the Bodkins by Lincoln Pierce

Max & the Midknights: Battle of the Bodkins

By Lincoln Pierce
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Ethan
Jul 24, 2022

The story is set in the middle ages and focused on a girl named Max and her friends, the
Midknights. Max wants to become a knight and go on great adventures, so she is currently
attending knight school. However, her homeland, Byjovia, is soon under attack by creatures that
can take the form of any Byjovian! These creatures are known as the bodkins! In order to protect
Byjovia and defeat the bodkins, Max and the Midknights must travel to the creatures’ homeland,
save their friends who are trapped inside, and prevent the bodkins from coming into Byjovia.

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