Renegade's Magic - Robin Hobb

This is the third and final book in the Soldier Son trilogy by fantasy writer Robin Hobb. Renegades Magic continues the story from the previous book, Forest Mage. This book was released in July 2007 and was another big hit for the author who had now got many fans who enjoy her books. It had been a year for fans to wait to see how the story concludes so they were eager to get there teeth into this one. So we left are main character Nevare in some pretty serious trouble in the last book. He had been accused of some pretty nasty things in the town of Gettys and the people there had killed him, or at least thought they had. When Nevare was a boy a ...  Read the complete review

Nevare Burvelle is dead; beaten to death by members of his own regiment for unspeakable crimes they mistakenly believed he had committed. His best friend from the Old Thares Military Academy, Spink, saw it all and was unable to stop them and the one person Nevare truly came to love was very nearly raped untill she managed to escape. In the wake of these events, the frontier town of Gettys has become a very changed place- full of disgust and despair at what the soldiers almost did and full of fear and distrust for the civillian women now afraid to walk the steets alone. Whats more the feelings of unease that emerge from the Speck's forest at the end of the King's Road ...  Read the complete review