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  • Renegade's Magic

  • The Soldier Son Trilogy, Book 3
  • By: Robin Hobb
  • Narrated by: Jonathan Barlow
  • Length: 24 hrs and 19 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (122 ratings)

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Renegade's Magic

By: Robin Hobb
Narrated by: Jonathan Barlow
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The final book in the Soldier Son series, from the author of the Tawny Man and Farseer trilogies, following on from the best-selling Shaman’s Crossing and Forest Mage.

The people of Getty's town remember the death of their cemetery soldier vividly. They remember believing him guilty of unspeakable crimes, condemning him, and then watching as other men of his unit beat him until he no longer drew breath. But Nevare Burvelle didn't die that day, though everyone believes they saw it happen. He was cornered by a power far more intractable than an angry mob. When he was a boy, the magic of the Specks - the dapple-skinned tribes of the frontier forests - claimed Nevare as a saviour; severing his soul in two, naming his stolen half Soldier's Boy and shaping him into a weapon to halt the Gernian expansion into their lands and save their beloved ancestor trees. Until now Nevare has defied the magic, unable to accept his traitorous fate. But the magic has won: It has extinguished his once golden future, devastated his family and has now turned his own people against him. Faced with endangering the only loved-ones he has left, Nevare has no choice but to surrender to its will and enter the forest.

But surrendering to his Speck destiny is only the beginning of his trials. Before he submits completely, Nevare makes one desperate last attempt to deter the Gernians from the Barrier Mountains without causing them harm. But the magic accepts no compromise. Exhausted, Nevare can no longer suppress his traitorous Speck self, Soldiers Boy. Losing control, he becomes a prisoner in his own body; able only to watch helplessly as his other half takes Soldier's Boy is determined to stop the Gernian expansion at all cost, and unlike Nevare, he has no love, nor sympathy for his spirit-twin's world.

©2007 Robin Hobb (P)2013 HarperCollins Publishers Limited

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"Hobb is one of the great modern fantasy writers… what makes her novels as addictive as morphine is not just their imaginative brilliance but the way her characters are compromised and manipulated by politics." ( The Times)

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Loved the story, narration well done

Excellent narration spoiled by lack of women's voice and badly misprounced words in lots of places .. for example anemone is pronounced a-nem-oh-nee .. NOT ann-uh-moan, chasm is 'kasum', not CHasum.. etc. little things, but lots of them throughout that got annoying and pull you out of the story. Other than that, really enjoyed it.

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A 5 star adventure read.

A story so brimming with adventure and so well told, you feel you made it yourself.

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Riveting

I couldn't wait to see what happened in this book. very well done, the pass was perfect.

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Definitely worth reading

I love Robin Hobb!
This is not her best series, but it’s still great!!
Farseer/ Live Ships/ Rainwilds are the best so read those first & come back to this afterwards.

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Robin Hobbs best work (?)

This is another series of Robin Hobbs that has you crying and sniffling by the end. This is a complex Web of Magic and intrigue with twists and turns and u expected happenings, and with no discernible plot holes or discrepancies. Whilst this is not part of her wider and longer storyline set around Kelsingra, the Six Duchies and Bingtown, it is probably even better in that within three books she has created and painted a fantatsic world with at least three very different but albeit similar, races. The Gernians, The Plains people and the Speck. There would be no better Netflix series than this, or perhaps HBO, where proper big budget could be spent. I have ways hoped that Robin Hobb would find the time and artistic calling, to do a sequel series based on this story.

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Below par for Hobb

This was a difficult read. Mostly depressing and lacked any real intensity or action. the final two chapters were brilliant but worth the wait...... unfortunately not. First two trilogies of Hobb I read were excellent. I guess they can't all be homeruns....

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Gross

Terrible Trilogy. Just kind of gross overall. Can Nevare get control of his body and life back? and what will happen to the world?Who cares?! I adore Hobb and all her books but this trilogy was a real struggle. I do not recommend it.

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