Man i should have updated this thing ages ago but i have been to engrossed with one of the latest series from Robin Hobb i get goosebumps when i read or talk about her books she is an amazing writer and her style puts you in the shoes of the character, she is extremely detailed and every thought that her character thinks she writes but that never makes it boring.
Anyway i am almost finished one of her latest series called The Soldier Son trilogy and it is about a boy called Nevare who is the second son of a noble who is destined to be a soldier but when his father decides to leave him in the hands of a captured enemy to learn his ememy the plains people who are warrior nomads who emerse them selves in magic the two become friends and the plains man decides to introduce Nevare to the magic and help defeat an age old enemy the Specks who guard the bridge of the dead of his people and requests that he slay her but things turn around as Nevare is offered a life controlled by magic or death, and so controlled by the magic Nevare lives a life of two divided souls one devoted to the magic and one to his people but the magic doesn't like to be second to anything and will stop at nothing to stop Nevare's people from killing off the forests of the Speck people and will use Nevare as a weapon against his people at all costs.