Then Aedan is summoned by Prince Burkhart to take part in an expedition back to Kultûhm. Friends, attractive girls, and bullies all appear in due course, as do adventures into the academy’s forbidden areas. His father abandons the family, so Aedan enters the marshal’s academy, hoping to learn enough to avenge himself on the Lekrans. When others living nearby accuse Aedan of abetting the slavers, he and his family leave home and make a lengthy journey past the abandoned fortress of Kultûhm to the southern city of Castath. None of this enables Aedan to save his friend, Kalry, when Lekran slavers raid the isolated farmstead where both of them live.
Aedan is a precocious lad barely out of boyhood, but he has a knack for strategy that’s far beyond his years, and his abusive father taught him the skills of a forester.
Renshaw’s enjoyable debut, set in a low-tech fantasy world, ably combines some standard fantasy tropes with more unusual plot elements.
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