Traición en el Norte:

Path of the Ranger #4

by Pedro Urvi, Sarima (Illustrator)

La Campaña en el Continente Helado ha fracasado. La guerra retorna y con ella la muerte.

El Rey Uthar ha sido derrotado en el Continente Helado. Herido, se retira a Norghania para reagrupar sus fuerzas y parapetarse tras las murallas de la capital.

Lasgol y sus compañeros intentarán pasar el cuarto y último año de instrucción y graduarse para convertirse en Guardabosques por méritos propios. Para ello tendrán que participar en misiones muy peligrosas y ayudar al Rey contra los invasores.

Los compañeros están divididos, deberán elegir entre apoyar a los Guardabosques y al Rey o a Darthor y la Liga del Oeste. Si deciden apoyar a Darthor cometerán traición y pagarán con su vida de ser descubiertos.

Darthor y la Liga del Oeste pactan una alianza para derrotar a Uthar y atacan al Rey antes de que pueda hacerse fuerte nuevamente. Lasgol y sus amigos se verán involucrados en la ofensiva para tomar la capital y destronar a Uthar.

¿Conseguirán las Huestes del Continente Helado lideradas por Darthor y las fuerzas de la Liga del Oeste tomar la capital y arrebatar la corona al Rey Uthar? ¿O por el contrario será Uthar quién resulte victorioso? ¿Quién sobrevivirá? ¿Quién perecerá?

¿Desenmascararán Lasgol y sus amigos al verdadero traidor? ¿Sobrevivirán al cuarto año de instrucción y la guerra y se graduarán como Guardabosques?

Descúbrelo en la cuarta entrega de esta fascinante serie de fantasía épica juvenil.

¡Disfruta de las aventuras llenas de acción, aventura, magia y romance!

¡Fantasía épica para todas las edades!

Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Adventure, Audiobook, High Fantasy, Young Adult Fantasy

396 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 25, 2019

About the author

Pedro Urvi is a bestselling fantasy author who some years ago began to write as an experiment. Without any deliberate intention on his part, the experiment in writing turned into a novel which went on growing until eventually it evolved into a saga. He is also a technologist with many years of experience working in the world of computer systems and cyber security. He has lived in the US, UK and Spain and worked all over Europe.
He is the author of three epic fantasy sagas: The Secret of the Golden Gods, The Ilenian Enigma, Path of the Ranger. It is currently working on a fourth one: Path of Dragons.
His other passion is reading. He defines himself as a fan of epic fantasy, science fiction and thrillers.

You can find him at:
mail: pedrourvi@pedrourvi.com
Facebook Author: https://www.facebook.com/PedroUrviAut...

Twitter: https://twitter.com/PedroUrvi


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Pedro Urvi es un escritor de fantasía, que un día hace unos años comenzó a escribir como un experimento. Sin él quererlo, el experimento narrativo se convirtió en una novela, que finalmente ha evolucionado hasta convertirse en una trilogía. También es un tecnólogo de Bilbao con muchos años de experiencia trabajando en el mundo de los sistemas de información y de la seguridad informática. Ha vivido en diferentes países: Estados Unidos, Inglaterra, España, y trabajado por toda Europa.
Es autor de tres exitosaa sagas de fantasía épica: Los Dioses Áureos, El Enigma de los Ilenios, El Sendero del Guadabosques. Ahora está trabajando en una cuarta saga; La Senda de los Dragones.
Su otra pasión es la lectura, se define como fan acérrimo de la fantasía épica, la ciencia ficción y el thriller. Otra de las actividades que le apasionan es salir a correr por la ría cerca del Guggenheim Bilbao, para escapar de sus ideas, imaginación, y sobre todo relajarse.

Me puedes encontrar en:
mail:pedrourvi@pedrourvi.com
Web: https://pedrourvi.com/
https://www.facebook.com/pedrourviautor/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/PedroUrvi

Reviews

[Laura Díaz · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hacía tiempo que un libro no me tenía tan al borde del pánico. Ha sido muy intenso y sorprendente, hasta ahora el mejor de los que llevo leídos de la saga. Pf de verdad os la recomiendo MUCHO.

[María · Rating 5 out of 5]

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee NO


🐩Lo acabo de terminar
🐩Me voy a morir
🐩Necesito el siguiente
🐩Pedro no me hagas esto
🐩Y morenita baja esos humos



Gracias

[Choco Con Churros · Rating 4 out of 5]

Este fue más intenso que los demás, por su posición de aparente traidor, aunque fuera la contrario y la terrible situación entre medias en que tuvo que desenvolverse, por los terribles acontecimientos y pérdidas para todos y el impresionante final. Me ha parecido el mejor de la saga hasta ahora. GL Bis (El sendero del guardabosques)

[Felipe Sampedro · Rating 5 out of 5]

Muy muy bueno, las guerras las aventuras y la amistad . Nadie supera a viggo .

[Mildly Mad Hatter]

DNF at some point over half way

Language: pretty much the same as the other books plus bullsh*t

The girls in this are awful! A guy was trying to protect his girl and keep a promise he made and she was threatening him and physically hurting him to try and make him tell her! Plus there’s the whole “we can do whatever a man can do” thing throughout the entire book. They made it so unrealistic. Why are the girls able to do everything better than all the guys? They make all the guys seem dumb compared to them.

Yeah I can’t take any more of this. I’m just going to stick with Rangers Apprentice.

[Lada · Rating 2 out of 5]

With each year in ranger schooling the training seems more abusive (from an already ridiculously high baseline level of suffering in year one), with the kids routinely being wounded and literally running and hiding to save their skins. All this is passed off as necessary because teaching any other way would take too long and produce graduates who are not "elite" enough.
But because of this and the other life-and-death and fate-of-kingdom situations that follow one after another, it's a page turner. At the same time I can't stand to read about torture anymore, so hopefully I'll be able to quit this YA series that I'm a bit embarrassed to be reading.

[Kirstie Ellen · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5/5 stars

Probably one of my favourites in the series so far - lots of exciting events happen in book four and this really progresses the story forward.

It's hard to imagine at this point where the story will go considering there are still so many books left - but that has me excited and I can't wait to continue reading.

I'm really hoping that from this book onwards, Urvi will continue to expand the world and we will get to see more and more beyond the walls of the Rangers' training school/missions.

[Adrián Urze Lozano · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nadie se espera nunca una traición. No he podido parar de leer hasta acabarlo. Lasgol y sus amigos son geniales. Juntos hasta el final.

[Rocio · Rating 4 out of 5]

Creo que éste es el mejor libro hasta ahora.
Tengo ganas de saber que va a pasar, porque ahora los objetivos han cambiado...

[Llona ❤️ "Così tanti libri, così poco tempo." · Rating 3 out of 5]

TRAMA E SPOILER:
altra battaglia, guerra in stallo
mezza squadra viene ammessa al quinto anno (specializzazione)
il Re muore
Darthor muore

[Katy · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm invested now in this series; twenty books total so many more to read. Ought to be a good summer project.

[✰DoveyV✰ · Rating 3 out of 5]

I like the third book best so far but the political intrigue was one new thing in this book I really enjoyed. It’s been there very subtly the whole time but it’s definitely more obvious now and I love it. Thanks to the ending though it seems like there’s going to be a lot more but it’ll be very different.

The characters again didn’t seem to have a whole lot of development apart from a select few.
One of these few was Egil. He’s definitely developed a lot in ways that I can see really effecting the story and playing a big part. He seems more sure himself and who he is and I look forward to seeing where he goes next.
Viggo was another character who I change in if on a less dramatic scale. A little bit more of his backstory was revealed and I think that it shows a lot about who he is rather than who he pretends to be.
Astrid finally had a bigger part in this book and I’m not really sure what to think about what we get see of her. She seemed almost like two different people switching depending on the scene. It was also confusing how Astrid’s hair is described as jet black and yet she’s a brunette…?
But other than those two Panthers I really didn’t see much more development other than little things here and there (and then Ingrid felt different but I’m really not sure why…)

Camou is the cutest thing, like where can I get one. His little shrieks and single words are adorable. I am curious to see exactly how big he gets and how fully he (she? it is a he right?) can speak.

*deep sigh* pointless deaths are one of the worst things you can do as in author in my opinion. Unfortunately Urvi doesn’t seem to agree and now the story feels kind of stuck.

The ending felt both rushed and forced. It didn’t seem add up right and felt as if it was just like an afterthought, it definitely could have been a lot better. All the major deaths (as mentioned above) seemed pointless and bland and really they leave a hole in the story that doesn’t feel right in the sense that like I said above it feels stuck. Of course the entire plot was scattered just like the first three books though so it wasn’t just the ending.

I’m kind of wondering what exactly comes next because I feels like the story should be over even though the side-main goal hasn’t been achieved. I just hope that this series doesn’t start dragging now when I’m not even a third of the way through. Fingers crossed.

(I’ll probably add more over the next few days but that’s all for now)

[Farseer · Rating 5 out of 5]

(English translation below)

La resolución de la saga. No es un final perfectamente feliz pero tampoco trágico. En línea con los anteriores libros, si te gustaron como a mí, también te gustará éste.

Obviamente, no es le lugar para empezar. Mejor leer los libros en orden.

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English translation:

The resolution of the saga. It is not perfectly happy, but it's not tragic either. It follows the line and the quality level of the previous books: If you liked them like I did, you'll like this one too.

Obviously, you shouldn't start reading here. Read the books in order.

[Rosa Chacón García · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hasta el momento es el que más me ha gustado de la saga

[Jeffrey López Dueñas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Considero este libro un precierre de temporada. Las acciones y tramas fundamentales de los libros anteriores tienen un cierreen este libro que permitirá, infiero, avanzar a otros arcos de la historia. Hasta ahora una novela lineal, con varios aciertos y pocas pegas que sin llegar a ser una saga increíble pasa como oportuna, atractiva y entretenida. Bravo pot los Guardabosques. Ahora una pausa para visitar otros autores y en unos días continuamos.

[Steven Carr · Rating 3 out of 5]

Again this series is a light fun read! Predictable but still good! This one was definitely slower than the first three. And not as good as them but still good. My favorite story lines are groups of friends that go on an adventures and deal with life and this series hits hard on that!

[Naiara Pinilla · Rating 4 out of 5]

el mejor personaje es y será VIGGO. y
además el proceso romántico mucho más interesante el suyo con Ingrid, SON ADORABLES, y van a estar juntos si o si.

[Isaac · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5

[Kim · Rating 4 out of 5]

When I first started reading Pedro Urvi’s series of the Path of the Ranger, I felt like he had borrowed too much from John Flannigan’s Brotherband series, as Urvi’s rangers in training were similar to Mr. Flannigan’s Brotherband in training. They battled a constant fear of failing, like in the Brotherband, and a similar set of characters: the super intelligent, smaller character; the powerful but handicapped anxious giant; the keen archer girl; the smart-mouthed mystery character; the super athletic enemies, also in training. The rigor of the disciplines was similar to that undergone by rangers in Flannigan’s Ranger Apprentice series.

However, as I read on, I found Pedro Urvi’s originally rather flat and predictable characters became increasingly alive on the page, and I began to care about what happened to them as their loyalties were increasingly challenged. The court intrigues, the betrayals, and the promises given that may not be fulfilled form a web of expectations and behaviors which threatened to be the team’s undoing.

I appreciate the people groups Mr. Urvi created in his world, which were unique. I have returned several times to read the next book in the series because I wondered if the team in training would ever manage to complete their goals. I feel that Mr. Urvi is growing in his skill as a story teller and in his understanding of how to enrich a story with more rounded characters and more interesting relationships. He is writing for teens and young adults, and I feel he originally underestimated his readers ability to relate with any depth to characters in his first books in the series.

[Sean · Rating 5 out of 5]

The fourth year of being a Ranger in the midst of a civil war as well as fighting what they though as the big bad as well.


Some parts of this book especially in the first 25% of the book including some scenes that if you are sensitive may not be for you.  It isn't that there is that gruesome scene but it can be very upsetting as what happens goes to one of the main and favourite characters.


I really am enjoying this series and while I love the two main characters of Lasgol and Egil ( who seems to be equally as pivotal) I think my favourite is Gerd who I tend to relate to the most as he seems so self conscious as well as having feelings of doubt about his abilities.


I love the friendship of the Panthers and how they look after each other.  Viggo who can be an overbearing person who is rude and abrupt to everyone has been slowly creeping into me so that I like this character.  Yes he is vicious and seems to have no conscience.  


This book had so much emotional overload for me as these kids fight for their very survival as well as having to find a way to help each other and the entire kingdom.  This was so charged that I didn't want it to end.

[Jay B · Rating 2 out of 5]

Pretty much Hogwarts with less interesting characters. Add in a dash of Eragon with a pinch of Star Wars.

After 4 books, it doesn’t feel like any of the characters have grown. More like things just keep happening at them and they stumble through via the almighty power of plot armor. Too much coincidence and happen stance even for a YA book.

[Natalia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cuarto año donde nuestros protagonistas se enfrentar a su último año en el campamento...
Hay de todo en este libro, desde odio hasta amor, desde lealtad hasta traición, desde momentos de paz hasta guerra....
Con muchas ganas de seguir y saber que ocurrirá a los protagonistas, y sus nuevas andanzas...

[Javier Calle · Rating 4 out of 5]

La saga vuelve a remontar con el final del entrenamiento de los protagonistas y de la trama principal que había hasta ahora. Me quedo con ganas de saber cómo continúa.

[Cathy · Rating 3 out of 5]

A series from my father-in-law.

The training is exciting. One reviewer said that they couldn't read more of the training because the kids are tortured as they train. In this case, if they don't run fast enough, they are bitten by a large dog. Also, if they don't hide well enough, an owl claws them. In prior books, they are also drugged as a part of their exam. I can't imagine that working on multiple levels. They were each graded on how well they fought against the monsters they hallucinated. How would those instructors grade them without also seeing the hallucinations? Not to mention drug side-effects, dangers to the kids, dangers to those around the kids as they fought invisible creatures. And wouldn't the drugs affect their balance, coordination, etc ...?

So, yes, the kids are tortured as they are trained. I think it's supposed to be a medieval form of training, without today's perspective on it. (I'm not saying it's right; I'm saying the medieval times were brutal and often barbaric.)

I find the training exciting and unpredictable. Because this is a fictional work, no one is really being tortured or advocating for torture. Even the instructors don't verbally advocate for torture. They just proctor the tests. I find this book situation unlikely to convince anyone in the real world that torture is okay, much less that torture is okay as a form of childhood education. Also, these fictional kids cope with it exceptionally well - probably too well for real life. But they routinely overcome and carry on, which is also what makes the story interesting.

There are unexpected plot twists in regards to the military strategies. Lasgol and Egil's dilemmas are engrossing.

I knew what was going to happen with the characters.

The actual battle descriptions don't appeal to me, and that's a significant portion of the book. If reading about wars is more appealing to you, you might enjoy it more.

I didn't find the part of the story where the Snow Panthers are spies very convincing. I don't think it's likely that they could avoid danger from both sides very well, being in effect, double-agents.

There is also the common "follow your heart" line from our own society, which is a little surprising in a book in which honor, loyalty, and duty are so revered. Those would be competing things to follow, as opposed to one's own inner self. Otherwise, our hearts might say, during the most difficult times, "I don't feel like being loyal today. It's just too hard." Anyway, the "follow your heart" line felt out of place in this book, and more a nod to our more postmodern times.

Our hearts are fickle. Our moods change frequently. Our hearts frequently fixate on things that are not good for us, or those around us. One friend I know calls that her "inner two-year-old." Think a kid in a candy store. Our hearts are easily misled, and we need an external measuring stick or compass to compare them with. I think of the "Adventures in Odyssey" "The Truth Chronicles"series, #5, "In My Image", where someone's heart led him to skip school and steal a cookie from a cookie store, because his heart was telling him he really wanted it.

[Sophie · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.5 stars. I think I liked this one the best so far. The first quarter was my favourite by far, 5 stars on that front. I'm so used to spending the first part with just Lasgol that having him share the time with some of his other teammates, especially my favourite ones, was great for me and I couldnt stop smiling at how perfectly all the relationships were written, friends, family, even found-family, so heartwarming despite the underlying growth of the threat of war looming over their heads. Once the group return to the camp, around the middle of the book it did fall a bit back into the usual 4 star worthy camp experiences, stuff I enjoy a lot but didnt quite get me so invested as the start. This is where it melds a little too much into the last few books and beyond a few moments I struggle to remember what happens.
The romances were a bit more present here and I feel like I was the most interested in them and the enemy in this book, usually they felt a little stiff but in this book it felt more genuine. The main 'love triangle that's kinda there but not all the time' wasnt my favourite but that's a small grievance.
The action in this book was good and there was a real sense of danger and fear, and the war was written very well as a multi-level, confusing thing which I did like. I was a little underwhelmed by the ending of the battle near the end because I couldn't recall some of the names involved if you paid me, but overall it was good and understandably emotional on the group and led to some good moments after.
A really good book, maybe the best one yet?

[Eli López · Rating 4 out of 5]

Awnssss y así se graduaron las panteras de las nieves, son ahora guardabosques de pleno derecho
Ingrid, Nisa, Gerd, Viggo, Egil y Lasgol
Los 6 demostraron ser muy leales a ellos mismos, sabían lo que estaban haciendo y sabían que ellos estaban siendo informantes, aún si eso los colgaba por traición
La última batalla se desarrolló contra los de Este y los del Oeste junto con los del norte.
Pero el libro se llama “traición en el norte” y así fue, la traición que sufrieron por los del norte hizo que mataran a Darthor y a Austin que era el verdadero sucesor a la corona.
La traición en el norte por la ambición de los líderes y por ser unos brutos descerebrados hizo que murieran los invasores.
Egil y Lasgol se quedaron en el campamento a la espera de que si Ulthar los iba a mandar a matar, así que idearon un plan, y fue desenmascararlo si existía peligro de que mandaran a matar a Egil y a Lasgol y así fue, los apresó pero en eso saltaron las panteras a defenderlos y Camu creó una burbuja que hizo que el hechizo del cambiante fuera innabilitado y lo vio toda la corte, en medio de todo los primos (despreciables y unos nobles horribles) vieron la oportunidad y le cortaron la cabeza, descubrieron que Ulthar estaba muerto y apresado y que el cambiante utilizaba su sangre para mantener la apariencia del rey.
Se les perdonó la vida a ellos 2 y Astrid perdonó a Lasgol también, por ocultarle toda la verdad de lo que el era y quienes eran sus padres.

[John · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cleaning House, Resetting the Stage
Lasgol and crew continue some training, but the Ranger School is almost an afterthought given the war that is going on, and the complexities of choosing sides in a multi-sided battle while somehow simultaneously maintaining a front as a ranger-in-training sworn to the King.

Some good training scenarios and lessons start out, but soon things devolve back into war-assignments that are not as challenging as the schools own devised tests.

Chaos errupts on the eve of success for the Westerly and Northern Alliance, and thanks to multiple treacheries Darthor is killed, along with one of Egil's brothers. For the most part the main characters of the book are just observers in this crucial evolution of the plot.

In the closing scenes Uthar insists on ranger graduation happening at his castle, and as suspected he decides to have Egil and Lasgol put to death. In a twist, they manage to unmask his shifting ways, and one of the two heir apparents takes swift action, killing the king and pardoning our young heroes. No one really gets sweet revenge, and the new kind is just as bad or possibly worse than the old king.

The whole group graduates, almost as an after thought, and now has to considering working on a specialization (like a Masters in Rangering).

[Noemi S. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dopo essere state sconfitte nel continente Ghiacciato le truppe del re Uthar tornano a Norghana, in previsione anche di una possibile alleanza tra i popoli dei territori ghiacciati e la lega dell'ovest, si odora puzza di guerra civile all'orizzonte.
Le nostre fantastiche pantere delle nevi sono arrivate (fortunatamente e a volte per molta molta fortuna per essere fini) all'ultimo anno di formazione per diventare guardaboschi, ma sorpresa più grande le gare di fine stagione per aggiudicarsi il punteggio per passare all'anno successivo questa volta non saranno svolte all'interno del campo, ma andranno ad affiancare i soldati sotto ordine del re, che teme una nuova invasione e si è rinchiuso all'interno del suo castello.
Viste le nuove alleanze le pantere delle nevi a chi rivolgeranno la loro lealtà?
Ma siamo pronti ad affrontare ancora più battaglie, colpi di scena e colpi d'astuzia; ricordando però che abbiamo vissuto nei risultati positivi per troppo tempo 3 libri erano troppi, preparatevi ad alcune perdite, e allo stravolgimento di equilibri importanti. Alla fine tutti veniamo traditi.

[Matthew Baumbarger · Rating 5 out of 5]

Treason in the North delivered in a way I never expected. It followed the Snow Panthers journey through their final year of Ranger training while also starting to develop the stories of the individuals a little more. Lasgol starts to find love, but has competition with two different women and the way it plays out really develops the story between the one he loves and the other girl who loves him. The civil war that is going on sucks the Rangers in and tests their mettle and loyalty and the ending was fantastic, not what I was expecting but much better. I won't spoil it for you but if you've read the other books you were probably waiting for this moment like I am. Overall a well written book with more character development and I'm hoping in the future books that they delve into the past of the rest of the Snow Panthers.

[Larry Coppock · Rating 5 out of 5]

An Ending with a Future

Book 4 ended a very interesting and appreciated reading experience. The descriptiveness and dialogues used throughout the last 4 books has been outstanding as far as I am concerned. In reading it was easy to place my mind’s eye right in the middle of everything. Book 4 appears not to be the conclusion as Book 5 is in the making. For those who have not read this far I can only highly recommend you finish the series. Book 4 ends at an appropriate time yet has set the stage for much more to come. I also have learned to appreciate the author’s ability to weave such a story in a manner that was easy to follow and enjoy. I look forward to reading more of his work.