I was a big fan of the Ranger's Apprentice series when I was younger, and every so often I check up on its various spinoff series just to see what's going on. They're not the most imaginative fantasy books ever (a lot of the countries in the world correspond to real-life countries and cultures), but they're fun and quick adventure reads that have a bit of nostalgia attached to them, so I still enjoy reading them anyway. There's a lot of telling and not showing in this book, with the author mostly just telling us how things happen at a given time, and I believe some of that is due to it being written for a younger audience.

While I did enjoy reading this book, even if it didn't blow me away, I do wonder how long this series will continue. I remember really enjoying the first few books in this series back when I first read them, but a part of that feeling has fizzled out in the latest ones. Maybe I'm just getting older and am a more critical reader now.