Killing Floor (1-146)

I thought that since I have nothing to read now, that I would go back to the Reacher novels, with the first book.

Ranger's Apprentice: The Siege of Macindaw (251-320)

This isn't a blog post, but I want to talk this book in its whole, now that I have read the ending. The book starts of kinda slow, recapping what has happened in the previous book, ad then the rest of the book is just setting up the big battle at the end, witch we how how its going to end from the first few pages of the book. The execution is really good, and the battle feels like your actually there. This proves that John Flanagan can handle material well, but he is very predictable. I feel that the ending is a good set up for the next book, which will come out next year. So all in all, if your a fan of the series like me, you should defiantly read this book, but in you haven't read the other books, by all means, start at the beginning of the series, and and I guarantee you will love it.

Flanagan, John. Ranger's Apprentice: The Siege of Macindaw: Book 6. New York: Philomel, 2008.

Ranger's Apprentice: The Siege of Macindaw (123-250)

The battle for Macindaw has begun. I have reached the climax. What has happened in this segment is that Will has acquired a small army to fight the invasion from the Scotti. And Will and Hoarce took some Scotti prisoner, and they learned that the Scotti were planning to use Macindaw as their main fort, and they would arrive in two weeks time. So now will had a time frame, because if they didn't take Macindaw by the time that the Scotti came, then it would be to late. So now Will came up with a plan to take the castle, and I am at the part where the plan has started, but the battle hasn't. So I am in this weird in between phase. My quote take place when they were interrogating the lead Scotti of the group they capture.

The forest itself seemed to personify a massive, ancient evil.

Will shivered at the thought of it and pulled his cloak more tightly around him. The darkness and the silence were causing him to have fanciful thoughts, he told himself. There was nothing here to be afraid of. He knew that the manifestations he had seen and heard when he first entered the forest had been the result of Malcolm's trickery. (Loc. 1795)

This quote is extremely interesting because you have heard me write about Will, the ranger, in other posts. He is a ranger, he's not scared of anything, but yet he is afraid. The setting Malcolm had portrayed was fear full even to a ranger, who knew what was happening. So think about how the Scotti was feeling, who was the one they were actually trying to scare. He was unaware of what was happening, and he was superstitious. No wonder he gave in to the interrogation. And it even says that afterward, he was crying. A grown man, crying. After this post I should finish reading this, and I can't wait.

Flanagan, John. Ranger's Apprentice: The Siege of Macindaw: Book 6. New York: Philomel, 2008.