The Soldier Son Trilogy · Book 2
Forest Mage
- Published
- 1 January 2006
- Pages
- 559
- ISBN-13
- 9780061199455
- Type
- novel
About this book
Forest Mage followed Shaman's Crossing in 2006, shorter at 559 pages, as Speck magic begins to take hold of Nevare Burvelle's body in ways his own rigid, colonially-minded culture finds grotesque. Robin Hobb uses the transformation to force Nevare, and the reader, into an increasingly uncomfortable reckoning with which side of the frontier conflict actually holds the moral high ground, ahead of the trilogy's close in Renegade's Magic.
Its place in The Soldier Son Trilogy
Forest Mage is book 2 in the The Soldier Son Trilogy series. It follows Shaman's Crossing. It is followed by Renegade's Magic. See the full The Soldier Son Trilogy reading order.
Nevare Burvelle is a second son in a rigid, colonially-minded military culture where a second son's entire identity is predetermined: he will become a soldier, full stop. Shaman's Crossing (2005) follows Nevare through a brutal cavalry academy as his nation pushes an expansionist frontier into land belonging to the Specks, a forest people whose magic turns out to be much more real -- and much more dangerous to Nevare personally -- than his own culture believes. It's Robin Hobb working outside the…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780061199455