Adventurers Wanted Book 6 Release Date

[Author Metcalfe]

Byapparent good fortune, the sword he purchases at the beginning of his adventuring turns out to be magical. (We later learn that this sword, whose magic dates back to an ancient race of elves, could equally be thought of as choosing him.) With the help of this sword and some simple, but clever, magic, he defeats a troll and later some bandits. This sword is also essential in fighting off some wraiths haunting a ruin. In this case, however, we see that there is more to Alex than simple luck. Here, his honor and goodness are victorious as he is tempted by these wraiths to slay his friends and follow the wraiths to obtain true greatness. This climactic moment makes clear to the reader that Alex may be as praiseworthy as his comrades have already claimed.

The second book, The Horn of Moran, follows a similar track to the first as Alex joins another adventuring group. However, his new company has far less peace than his old. The encounter Alex had with the wraiths in the first book was just a foreshadowing of the nefarious evil creeping along the edges of the story as the group seeks to return the titular horn to the rightful king of Alusia before war breaks out.

The group continues the quest to find the Ring of Searching (Albrek had left the island before the mining of the dwarves had disturbed Salinor) and encounters both small and great obstacles to its completion. Alex continues to show himself wise beyond his years both in dealing with foes and friends alike. Of particular importance, he is literally the vehicle that brings his new friend, a seer named Kat who is part of their party, to fulfill the prophecy of the Empty Tower thus allowing her to become the Oracle of the Empty Tower.

With this ringing in his ears, Alex goes on to challenge Jabez and finds him with a second Orion Stone, preparing to destroy Whalen, now his prisoner, and take his power. Alex is able to break the Orion Stone and kill Jabez. Almost instantly, Alex blacks out and regains consciousness in the headquarters of the Brotherhood. Here Alex and Whalen meet Gaylan, the leader of the Brotherhood. His power is clearly immense and he reveals his plan to use the Axe of Sundering to sunder the wall between life and death. We soon learn that his particular plan is to release from death his former master and the founder of the Brotherhood, Zain. Alex is physically forced by Zain into breaking the Wall and Zain escapes.

There are a handful of references to characters drinking in excess at a wedding or enjoying the beer of some pub too much (not by Alex Taylor). Alex must use, of course, violence against his evil opponents and the descriptions of the evil Alex faces necessarily include some dark content. It does not, in my opinion, dwell excessively on the gory or malevolent. Rather, the stories are both packed with excitement but also positively formative. An indicator of the intention of the author to provoke discussion between the child reader and others is his list of discussion questions at the end of each book in this series. (I will, therefore, not provide discussion questions with this review.) I would highly recommend this series.

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