This book is about a boy named Pug that lives in a castle. He is taken as a wizard’s apprentice, who’s name is Kulgan. Kulgan teaches him a lot of magic, along with war among other things. He and his friend, Tomas, like to imagine adventures beyond the safe place where they live. There is a shipwreck on the beach, which brings people they have never seen before with magical powers and sorcery. He is forced to serve someone as a knight, and he is unable to learn and for Kulgan to teach him the many ways of sorcery and magic. His friend is also in love with a lady, which heightens tensions. The war between the new people with wizard powers not seen like anything before fighting the kingdom becomes to escalate and escalate throughout the book. The evil people see a lot of potential in him, and they take him to their homeland to undergo a lot of hard training. He goes to the Assembly which contains all of the most powerful and most trained magicians in all the evil people land. His friend Tomas finds out he is very strong on the battlefield and decides to attempt to become a warrior. They fight against the evil wizards to save the kingdom. This book is a very good book but of course not the very best. It is unlike most generic novels where the reader knows essentially everything that is going to happen due to the types of that book being used widely, and the plot is great and not too basic. It has a lot of extremely vivid imagery, like any good book does, and if you read for too long you feel very immersed within the book and its plots and characters. The characters undergo a lot of character development and change as people. They change from dreaming about going on adventures, exploring the world and fighting as any young person does, all the way to actually becoming that person, finding out the real struggles and the very real worries that it represents, like losing everything if you fail, and how everyone is counting on you.
- Crosby J.
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