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From John Flanagan, author of the worldwide bestselling Ranger's Apprentice -- an all-new adventure featuring the Brotherband crew and one of our favorite Rangers!
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Fresh off of victory over their longtime nemesis, Tursgud, Hal and the Herons, summoned by King Duncan, set sail for Castle Araluen. Thrust into the dangerous world of Araluen, the Herons learn of a threat to Queen Evanlyn and whispers of a deadly sect known as the Scorpion Cult. Rumors say that Iqbal, who previously tried to assassinate Evanlyn at her wedding to Horace, might be planning another attempt. Not waiting to see if the knife will strike true, the Herons join forces with Gilan and his fellow Rangers to track down the would-be assassins.
In this fifth book in the Brotherband Chronicles, old friends re-emerge to take on new enemies as the worlds of Ranger’s Apprentice and Brotherband join forces! Perfect for fans of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, T.H. White’s�The Sword in the Stone, Christopher Paolini’s Eragon series, and George R. R. Martin’s�Game of Thrones�/ A Song of Ice and Fire series.
- Sales Rank: #3045434 in Books
- Published on: 2014-12-02
- Released on: 2014-12-02
- Formats: Audiobook, CD, Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 11
- Dimensions: 5.66" h x 1.35" w x 5.22" l,
- Running time: 780 minutes
- Binding: Audio CD
About the Author
John Flanagan grew up in Sydney, Australia, hoping to be a writer, and after a successful career in advertising and television, he began writing a series of short stories for his son, Michael, in order to encourage him to read. Those stories would eventually become The Ruins of Gorlan, Book 1 of the Ranger’s Apprentice epic. Now with his companion series, Brotherband Chronicles, the novels of John Flanagan have sold millions of copies and made readers of kids the world over.�Mr. Flanagan lives in the suburb of Manly, Australia, with his wife. In addition to their son, they have two grown daughters and four grandsons.
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You can visit John Flanagan at
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www.RangersApprentice.com
www.BrotherbandChronicles.com
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Charecter continuity between RA and BB needs reworking
By Finn
/// Edit: Just to note I have now finished the book with an additional section explaining my feelings after its completion
Ok, so a thing to keep in mind is I'm not entirely finished with the book, only about half way through, but I had some nigglings that wouldn't go away and I felt the urge to share them, so here are my thoughts so far.
The book isn't the best of Flanagan's works, not quite up to the level of previous entries but good and entertaining nonetheless.
My major quibble, as was a case with the latest rangers apprentice book, the royal ranger is that character contradictions are beginning to become woefully apparent. The fact that will in the last book was overpowered by lowly brigands ground my gears to say the least, this one however (mild spoiler) compares the characters of horace and stig, claiming they are on equal footings.... This may seem minor to some, but to me, claims like this need to make sense, and to me, this doesn't. Stig is at most a late teen to early twenty something male, and in this series has been described a capable warrior, nothing more. Yet here he is being called equal with Araluen's Best, literally their best soldier.... Why, it simply serves to discredit horace. Even looking at the challenges the two have faced, horace's opponents have usually been professional soldiers or leaders and he has bested them all. Stigs and the brotherbands in comparison have thus far been pirates, brigands and slavers..... The two just aren't on the same level, nothing about them has previously indicated that this is the case.
Excuse the rant, but stuff like this really detracts from the overall quality of the narrative, having horace be on equal footing with thorn say makes sense, both being their nations premier warriors, but this..... Gah, please don't go bandying such statements around lightly in future Mr Flanagan. I just personally feel that a certain "ranking" is in order when watching or reading any book or film, you wouldn't have aragorn be overpowered by a single orc, or the hulk bested by a normal human in an arm wrestle.... Stuff like that breaks immersion in a heartbeat. Things like Duncan losing his temper for the first time in my memory and over literally nothing, with thorn losing his temper equally quickly and irrationally.... Please take more care with character continuity.
TL;DR The calibre of challenges the herons faced has always been well below that of halt, will and horace etc, thus any comparisons between the two should adequately reflect that.
Anyway, enough on that, as for the rest of it, the story is Ok, dialogue is good. Will say a little too much time is spent with characters and their personal thoughts for my taste but to each their own. The gravitas of the herons challenge is pretty standard for brotherband books thus far, not RA level and that's fine, just hope in future comparisons between the two can reflect that with greater accuracy.
This review has sounded rather negative, and I don't want it to come across that way, I have thus far except for a few frowns over the nonsensical nature of character continuity enjoyed the book, I personally prefer the RA ones so I'm probably a little biased, but on the whole I think it's a good read and if you've like the previous entries then it would be a safe bet to say you'll like this one.
I'll update once I'm don't for a more comprehensive and holistic review.
Edit #1 (abundant spoilers, do NOT read unless you have read the book)
Ok, so I finished the book, and I'll admit things started to improve, with Gilan being slightly better than Stig but slightly worse than Thorn, this fits in with previous titles and is what it should be, though how on earth this now fits in with Horace, God only knows.
I suppose my biggest gripe as perviously stated is the fact that the world that the Herons inhabit has always been a "nicer" one in comparison to the Rangers apprentice one. The price of failure in their case is a lost Skandian treasure, a few slaves etc... In comparison, should the Rangers have fialed, it's the fall of Skandia to the Temujai, or Araluen being overrun by Morgorath/ an invasion from Picta. The qualit of enemies is entirely incomparable as well, expert warriors from Nihon-Ja compared with brigands and bandits. This isnt a criticism for the brotheband books as a whole, they just never seemed as serious which is fine. However, the crew of the Herons suddenly seemed to receive some magical upgrade between Slaves of Soccoro and this title, to have them on even footing with the likes of Gilan say and again, it just doesn't fit. To use some more bad analogies, it would be like having a marine be put in a unit with Navy Seals and have him suddenly perform at or above their level. Or to have St Kilda (think their bad this year?) beat Geelong by 200 points. It just doesn't make sense.
Things like Hal not being surprised at all by thorn CATCHING A CROSSBOW BOLT..... I know he's a legendary warrior bla bla bla, but not even raised eyebrows. Who are these superheroes and what did they do with the Herons?
Things, as I said, did get better, with Gilan getting his moments, though nothing on his hidden movement, still used the standard cloak, small things but still strange. Though I still felt he, and anyone else from the RA was hobbled in their ability, his tactical prowess never really shone through and he often times differed to Thorn, which once again, nonsensical. Each person has their roles, and tactics have always been a rangers strong point. Even in the last book, Gilan was making mistakes that didn't really add up in my head, he just wasn't on the pedestal that he was in RA books, which if anything should be set even higher given this "easier world" It just felt that Flanagan wanted the the characters from both books on at least the same level, if not having the BB crew slightly above, which, apologies for beating a dead horse, is just ridiculous, they have less experience and faced enemies no way close to the same calibre. This is all fine, but it never shone through in this book which really grated on me as any further collaboration between the two series needs to match the standard set here, which is a surprising and to me, illogical one. Hell even Lydia was practically placed on the same level as Gilan.... Her darts may be effective, but they will never be able to match the range of the longbow and even her skill seemed to match Gilan's years of experience with the longbow.... Furthermore, the Duncan scene comes to mind again and just how much of a change that was. We had a down to earth, intelligent and almost modern man, attempting to waive the law for Halt for commit treason by insulting him, then literally going off his nut because the Heron being smaller in size to regular Wolfships, even after having Gilan tell them how it's a fantastic it etc... Then Thorn, just as irrationally, doing the same thing. To top it off, now Thorn is a "confident" because of it. In every RA book to date, Duncan has always been a reasonable man and never once lost his temper like that. Last gripe, again back to stig and Horace, This was the first in the series where I felt that Stig was closely comparable to Horace. The entire character was identical to me, replace every "Stig" with "Horace" and I wouldn't have questioned it, which is annoying. Then we have stig killing rabbits by throwing stones at them.... Just out of the blue, dropped as a casual thing. Unless 10 years, steroids and bionic upgrades have occurred since the last book, then I don't know what to tell you, the Herons as a whole were just magically "better". Anyway, enough negatives, the book was good, humour was there, but the inconstancies came close to ruining it for me.
Second TL;DR, The characters in this book seemed completely different from the characters in all previous works, with the characters from BB receiving a rather major upgrade out of the blue, while the charecters from RA seemed to receive a downgrade
If anyone is reading this, knows John Flanagan, the only thing I ask him to do is sit down with his editors and get a "ranking" straight to avoid these ridiculous scenarios in future titles, because at times I found myself having to put the book down in frustration with some of the inconsistencies. The characters from RA should be superior in almost every way, they are older, more experienced, and cracked far tougher nuts than anything the Herons have accomplished. Nothing wrong again, but it's like following the stories of a special forces soldier/member of the security services (pretty much what rangers are) and regular police etc... Just not operating on the same level. Please don't gimp my childhood heroes for the sake of your new ones John, they deserve better.
Edit #2:
Ok, So I'm not sure if this was directed at me, but another reviewer didn't agree with the differences in the degree of challenge between the RA characters and the BB characters, citing that because they are on a boat, the problems they could face are far more limited in scope. Now whether or not this was directed at me I feel the need to clarify my points as they may have been misunderstood.
I have no problem with the BB world being "easier" than the RA world, and realistically, with there being only a dozen or so people on a ship the challenges that they could overcome will have to be smaller in some degree, I have no quarrel here. I begin to take issue, however, when the worlds begin to blend. We have characters from the RA beginning to blend in with the characters from the BB world, which is great. I just didn't feel they added up. I too am fine with the BB characters and enemies and I agree that the latest antagonists was the series best to date. My point is, as you yourself acknowledge, the challenges of the RA ARE more meaningful than that faced by the Herons, which again is fine, except when the characters from this more "difficult" world begin having just as much if not more trouble keeping up in an "easier" world.
An analogy if you'll permit me. I compare it to a university/college student studying mathematics, they find it challenging, they may sometimes need help with certain problems, but eventually overcome them and graduate (like a story arc). Then to take this graduate and put them in a high school maths class, where they seeming struggle equally if not more with the high school level maths work and even keeping up with some of the "smarter" kids in the class. It just doesn't make sense. This is how I feel with this latest book, that characters like Gilan and Horace (the uni students in keeping with my terrible analogy) have trouble keeping up with characters from the BB (high school students) which I feel is a sever injustice to the RA series.
Excuse any typos and spelling errors, I'm on mobile :)
Thanks for reading
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
A good book but i have to say not brillient compared ...
By Amazon Customer
A good book but i have to say not brillient compared to the rest in the series. I think things were a little easy for the Heron's this time around.
That being said the book as always is funny in the right places and keeps us entertained.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Ingvar Transformed
By Arthur W Jordin
Scorpion Mountain (2014) is the fifth Fantasy novel in the Brotherband Chronicles series, following Slaves of Socorro. The initial volume in this sequence is The Outcasts.
In the previous volume, Hal was advising Anders on modifying the rigging on Bjarni's wolfship. They were discussing moving the mast back to keep the bow higher. Bjarni was having doubts about re-rigging his ship. He was also worried about the youth of Hal.
Erak came by on his morning constitutional and asked permission to come aboard. He learned that Bjarni was converting his ship to jib sails. Of course, Erak wouldn't do that to his ship, but approved of others changing to the more efficient sail plan.
Meanwhile, Lydia had gone hunting to get away from Rolland. She had agreed to go to the Hay Harvest dance with him, but decided to avoid him as long as she could. She found an old cabin in the woods and cleaned up the mess.
She went out looking for game, but found signs of a bear. She decided to return home in the morning. That night, she heard something big on the porch. She left at dawn.
Hal also had an encounter with a large animal, but it turned out to be an alpine dog. The dog decided to adopt him. Hal called her Kloof because that was what her bark sounded like.
In this novel, Hal Mikkelson is the son of a Skandian father and an Araluen mother. He is very intelligent and good with his hands. Now he is the skirl -- captain -- and owner of the Heron, the first jib-rigged Skandian ship.
Thorn was a shipmate of Mikkel. After Mikkel's death, he had lost his right forearm in tangled rigging. Without his right hand, Thorn could not use an axe or any other weapon. Now he has several hands made of wood carved by Hal.
Stig Olafson was Hal's first friend. Hal had saved Stig from drowning in a nearby cove. Now Stig is the first mate of the Heron.
Ulf and Wulf are identical twins. They like to swap names to confuse others. They are in charge of the sails on the Heron.
Ingvar is a very large boy, but he is nearsighted, clumsy and very strong. His strength benefits the Heron in various ways. Yet he is rather intelligent.
Jesper and Stefan raise the yardarms for the sails of the Heron. Jesper is a reformed thief and lockpicker. Stefan usually anchors the ship on beaches.
Edvin is the smallest in the crew, but is the cook and medic. He may be the smartest boy in the crew.
Lydia is a girl who likes weapons and hunting. She was saved by the Heron crew and is now one of their team.
Kloof is the Heron dog. She is a very large animal.
Duncan is the King of Araluen. He is passionate, but listens to his advisors.
Cassandra is the Crown Princess of Araluen. Cassie is Duncan's daughter and the wife of Horace.
Crowley is the Commander of the King's Rangers of Araluen. He and his Rangers argue a lot with the King.
Gilan is a King's Ranger of Araluen. He has prior experience with the Heron crew.
Anthony is the Lord Chamberlain of Castle Araluen. He runs the castle
Selethan is an ally of Duncan. He has informed the King of another group of assassins sent to kill Cassandra.
In this story, the Heron is now the Araluen duty ship. They are sailing to Castle Araluen to report to the King. The Heron is late due to their pursuit of the Nightwolf.
When the Heron and her crew reach the Araluen docks, they are met by Anthony. He greets them in the name of the King and invites them into the castle. Gilan and Crowley are also among the greeters. Anthony notices that Ingvar needs a larger bed..
Hal, Thorn and Stig are escorted to the King. Gilan and Crowley go with them. Crowley introduces the Skandians to Duncan. The King asks them to sit and offers them drinks. The King wants them to sail to Arrida.
Duncan has received word of another group of assassins after Cassie. These killers are a religious group on Scorpion Mountain. The King wants Gilan to meet Selethan and learn more about the group.
The King plans to send a troop of cavalry with Gilan, but Gilan objects to this plan. He is used to working alone. Also, the Heron if too small to carry horses.
Meanwhile, Lydia is shown to her suite of rooms. She quickly unpacks her bags and looks around. Then Cassie knocks on her door.
Cassie invites Lydia and the rest of the crew on a hunt. She uses a sling and shot to hunt. Yet she is interested in trying the atlatl and darts,
During the hunt, a man with a turban is sensed by Kloof. He has been hiding behind a bush. The man raises a crossbow and shoots a quarrel at Cassie.
Hal doesn't go on the hunt. He has a talk with Ingvar and learns that the large boy is not happy with his role in the Heron crew. In Ingvar's opinion, his myopia makes him a liability in a fight.
Hal has Ingvar look out the window. He asks the boy to describe the scene. Hal notices that Ingvar squints as he tries to see the objects below. Hal has an idea.
This tale takes the Heron and her crew down the river to the sea. Ingvar is entranced by the sights. The Heron crew keep asking him to identify things along the banks.
Ingvar doesn't seem to be bored by the game. Seeing things at a distance is fascinating to him. Lydia is well pleased by Hal's gift to Ingvar.
Thorn gives Ingvar a voulge as his weapon. The next installment in this sequence has not yet been announced on Amazon.
Highly recommended for Flanagan fans and for anyone else who enjoys tales of sea voyages, ship handling, and a bit of romance. Read and enjoy!
-Arthur W. Jordin
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