This book always leaves you guessing, you never know what will happen next.

John Flanagan describes with utmost detail so you feel you are in the book. You also endear yourself to most characters: you cry when Will looses Tug, or you feel fear as Flanagan describes Will's jump from thirty feet in the air, landing on a man's shoulders just to help a friend; and when Aseikh Umar reacts to Will when it looks as if he has shot Umar's grandson.

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