Renegade's Magic
core novel 2007 The Soldier Son Trilogy
Record
| First published | 2007 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.57 (17,531 ratings, collected 2026-09-11) |
| Page count | 691 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780060757649 |
| Internal chronology | 3 |
Synopsis
Renegade's Magic opens with Nevare Burvelle facing execution for crimes he did not commit, from which he escapes with the help of Lisana, a Speck woman he loves, after having been framed. The novel's central conflict sets Nevare's Gernian homeland, which is pushing to build a road through and fell an ancient forest of Elder Trees housing the ancestral spirits of the Speck people, against the Specks themselves, who regard the forest as sacred. Complicating matters further, a Speck spirit known as Soldier's Boy has come to inhabit Nevare's body and increasingly seizes control of it, leaving Nevare a horrified, largely powerless witness trapped behind his own alter ego's actions as Soldier's Boy works to sabotage the road-building effort. The novel closes out the Soldier Son trilogy's exploration of the collision between Gernian colonial ambition and Speck magic and identity.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Soldier Son Trilogy
- Series: The Soldier Son Trilogy core; position 3 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Robin Hobb
Notes
- From the series record (The Soldier Son Trilogy): A distinct continuity from Robin Hobb's Realm of the Elderlings -- shares no characters, setting, or continuity.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Soldier Son Trilogy: position 3 of 3: previous Forest Mage (2006)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Soldier Son trilogy
- Wikipedia: Shaman's Crossing
- Wikipedia: Forest Mage
- Wikipedia: Renegade's Magic
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Hobb
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