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Path of the Ranger #12

Espíritu de Dragón

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A new danger threatens the kingdom, and the Panthers will have to face it.

The Panthers continue to train and educate themselves to become Superior Specialists. The new training system will take them to unsuspected extremes. Will they be able to finish the training? Will they suffer a serious setback?

Lasgol will continue to develop his power now that he has managed to be able to discern everything that is inside of him. What new skills will she develop? What will happen to his Gift?

Camu has grown and evolved. Nobody knows the power the creature has and what he can get to do with it. Aware of his origins, the creature will try to continue growing both in its physical aspect and in power. What new abilities will he develop?

Find everything out while you live fascinating adventures with a group of unique characters that will make you fall in love.

458 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 20, 2022

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Pedro Urvi

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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.

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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.

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55 reviews2 followers
April 30, 2022
So, I agree with a lot of the other comments on this that the characters really aren’t developing at all… Viggo (immaturity, it’s not endearing or funny), Nilsa (magic, it makes zero sense for her to still hate magic so much while being friends with Camu and Lasgol), and Gerd (fear, seriously he will have grown in this aspect at some point), all seem to be stuck in their same thought process with ZERO development! Even Lasgol does not seem to be developing much… If you look at all great young adult novels the characters grow they develop and mature…

Not only that this is the 3rd or 4th book that focuses way way to much time on training… We get it, they train we can gloss over this stuff already… It kind of feels like the author is out of ideas for other story lines… The training aspect of this book could have maybe been 5 chapters and moved on….

Not only that but the first few books set Lasgol up as an incredibly rare special case and this new higher training makes him feel not special at all and just like everybody else… Not only that but he was an admirable character when he didn’t use his gift during training! Cause while I agree it is part of who he is, it is cheating regarding their skills test… It gives him an unfair advantage over the other specialist… There was something special about how he was the ONLY one to be a double specialist and that he did it without using his gift… Now the author has thrown that away…

… So they literally had a conversation about how Egil should track everything happening… Two chapters later there asking why he’s doing it?!?

I could be wrong but in Path of the Specialist they specifically said Beast Whisperer was the most difficult wildlife specialty, but in this on it is Beast Master….

Soooo….. Lasgol was in harmony with every single specialty from every house when they tested him in Path of the Specialist chapter 18… So all 4 of his choices should still have been in harmony, no? Seriously the author is losing a grip on his own story and starting to lose me!!! He should know what he has previously written and not change things….

Also, so if Lasgol can catch the Silver Fox or whatever he is wouldn’t that be like passing the Man Hunter test? I guess the book just feels incredibly inaccurate on these specialties are obtained… Not only that but I always wondered why it was was such nonsense that it would be tough for someone to get more than one specialty… So many of the specialties are almost identical to others to the point it’s a wonder that every specialist doesn’t have multiple specialties because it should be theoretically incredibly easy based of a speciality they already have… I don’t know this book was just pretty poor…
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Profile Image for Javier Calle.
Author 19 books125 followers
April 2, 2023
Continúa el aprendizaje de nuestros amigos y se abren puertas nuevas que espero que el autor sepa aprovechar.
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1,003 reviews22 followers
February 20, 2022
The 12tg book in this series is very good and it almost felt like an end to the series however a 13th book is due in April. I do think that this series is very good however I think reading so many in succession has got the books to lose a little of its shine for me. I really would love to see new characters come into the group as it needs to have some more characters that can bring something new to the series.
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163 reviews1 follower
April 30, 2025
Questo volume l'ho aspettato tanto e purtroppo mi sono fatta grosse aspettative nei suoi confronti, ed è così che sono rimasta facilmente delusa.
Il gruppo delle pantere o acquile reali come sono stati definiti negli ultimi volumi, si trova al campo per le specializzazioni poiché i maestri vogliono provare a sottoporli ad un addestramento speciale per diventare Guardaboschi superiori.
Tutto la storia si svolge all'interno del campo e ci racconta di questi allenamenti speciali accompagnati dalla magia e che si svolgono nella mente, ma l'imprevisto è sempre dietro l'angolo.
Proprio per quello che viene raccontato per tutto il libro questo volume risulta essere leggermente sottotono rispetto agli altri, parte lento e fin dopo la metà del libro non prende movimento.
La vera azione si presenta solo in poche pagine, un capitolo o due, rendendolo spesso monotono.
Comprendo la decisione dell'autore che scrivendo questo volume ha voluto far comprendere al meglio al lettore tutta una serie di cose che ipotizzo saranno importanti per il prossimo volume vista l'anteprima del titolo.
In questo volume Nilsa e Viggo mi sono risultati più indigesti e sempre pronti alla lamentela più degli altri libri, inutile dire però che anche se il sospetto che l'allenamento sarebbe finito male, mai mi sarei aspettata finisse in questo modo.
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23 reviews
June 11, 2023
The „higher training“ is just kinda stupid but it was still good I guess…
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12 reviews1 follower
May 4, 2025
Also viel rumgezicke wg Magie. Immer die gleichen Dialoge.. ansonsten gelungene Story wie immer! Spannend wie es mit dem MC weitergeht
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377 reviews4 followers
April 18, 2022
Camu is Finally Taking the Spotlight, But Not Enough
So the implausibilities just keep piling up, making it increasingly hard to get through these stories.

The group is singled out above any rangers with 20 or more years of experience to be the king's elite of the elite troops, aka the Eagle, then they are allowed to disappear for advanced training for multiple seasons, more than a year, without the self-centered king interrupting or calling on them for a single mission.

The huge dragon ice sculpture melts causing a huge flood at the most memorable landmark in the entire sanctuary valley, and no one notices for days, despite elite training requiring running, hunting, and other activities that involve traveling throughout the valley.

The group is in training for over a year, but never even talks to a "regular" elite specialist in training a single time.

The entire group gets one or more specialties, despite some of them previously not even qualifying for a single speciality. And none of the regular qualified specialty trainees even gets considered for the new training methods.

Lasgol and Astrid's relationship seems "stuck" for over a year, which is unlikely for young love. Ingrid and Viggo at least start disappearing for entire nights pretty often.

The only thing really good about this story is Camu's developing personality and maturation to making more decisions for himself.
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February 5, 2023
A step down for the series

This is the first one I've given 3 stars and its for a couple reasons. The main reason is that the higher training timeline doesn't make sense. They spent almost a year of actual time training according to the amount of seasons mentioned by the author.. But the results weren't much better than what a normal year would have brought during regular training with each getting 1 or 2 specialties (with 1 exception).. But with a ton more risk and problems. The main 3 mastered all or most of their original specialty but didn't get this specializations unless they got then during the harmony selection. It was very confusing and inconsistent.
The 2nd reason is majority if the book was also lacking any real action. It was about 70% through before there was any real action to the storyline. The author can stop repeating the same information over and over and having TBE characters act like its new again and the story will flow better and faster.
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16 reviews
February 8, 2022
I must remember the age range these books are written for...

Brilliant story with sometimes surprising twists. Unfortunately the writing is clumsy and in some cases sounds like a pre-teen regurgitating a dictionary. Plus many of the characters continue to hold prejudices against any form of magic and resist anything to do with it despite multiple experiences showing that magic is not evil, only the user. So while these characters gain skills, they don't grow and have now become fixed caricatures rather than characters who develop. Consequently I get bored and frustrated with the predictability of most of their responses. However, I keep buying more books and occasionally grit my teeth because I want to see what happens, it's such a good story...
33 reviews1 follower
August 15, 2022
Not one of my favorites of the series. I already read several books on specialist training and felt this was a little bit of a retread. Plus the whole mind training process seemed to cheapen the initial specializations, not to mention now the characters are OP.

The book also was a bit slow and disjointed. Pedro needs to decide what's the deal with Astrid and Lasgol. These "kids" are getting older - early 20s and he has them acting like 15 year olds. Despite the same loop of bickering, I find the Viggo and Ingrid relationship much better - at least they are sneaking off for the night.
302 reviews3 followers
September 11, 2023
grading it tough. It was good enough to finish some hope and dreams that our characters have had. Camu continues to develop. Lasgol interest in his gifts continue to grow. I don't know if the author knew it or did but he slightly opened the door for a spin-off of Magic when Lasgol was talking to two Mages. Either way the mental new training was nice. but not great will the characters remember their training? Guess we'll know in the next book. I am intrigued of the next steps of the frozen dragon statue. A slight misstep but a cautious one for me. Maybe at 12 books I'm finally starting to get fatigued. Though I am determined to finish or catch up on this series.
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54 reviews5 followers
January 1, 2024
Acabé este libro muy decepcionado. Creo que ha perdido gran parte de lo que me mantenia unido a la saga y los defectos que han tenido hasta ahora los demás libros ya no se subsanan con sus virtudes.

No tiene ninguna clase de coherencia con respecto a lo que se ha mostrado hasta ahora. No tiene ninguna profundidad en ningún personaje, ni creo que la vayan a tener. La trama está perdida. No engancha, no intriga.

Este libro es una repetición tonta del sendero del especialista. Salvo que en este no para de contradecirse una y otra vez y el tiempo es tan difuso que ya no sabes ni qué hace cada personaje.

Toca hacer un parón en esta saga y ya veremos si se continúa en un futuro.
183 reviews
February 3, 2022
Another Wonderful Book

Lasgol and his fellow Panthers strive to become Ranger Specialists using a new method of higher training involving magic. Will the Mother Specialist and the Elder Specialists finally achieve a breakthrough in training to reach the their goal to create Higher Specialists who are able to blend different Ranger schools to better serve the kingdom? In the meantime, what is going on with Camu, whom they left in hibernation up north. I recommend this book.
1 review
March 10, 2022
98% of the book is training at the shelter again with a twist that actually made lasgol less special. The conversations between characters were long and repetitive and I ended up skimming through a lot of it; it became exhausting to reread conversations from other conversations of other characters. The series started out awesome, but it seems the author pushed books out instead of an actual story.
818 reviews3 followers
February 20, 2022
Book 12

Book 12 was disappointing. The MC's were all about the training and how it proceeds. The book was repetitive and had about 75% of the training being explained over and over again. The rest of the book was arguing with the animal Camu.
63 reviews2 followers
March 8, 2024
This book was ass the slowest book ever hahahaa they spent way to much time on the school that I dint care about at all like come on k thought we where done with this and with a name like dragon sprit I thought it was going to pop off but the hole time nothing happened
218 reviews4 followers
February 19, 2022
I love the series but…

This one was boring. There just wasn’t enough in this one to keep my attention. Hope the next one will have a little more to it.
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4,112 reviews15 followers
March 6, 2023
The Royal Eagles are back at the Shelter. Now that they are conditioned, Egil, Nilsa and Gerd fearfully begin their Higher Specialist Training. While Lasgol, Astrid, Viggo and Ingrid advance to the next step of the Higher training: Experience. Plus, Camu’s situation has changed as his capabilities have grown. Later, when all seven completed their Expansion stage, they started the Higher Harmony stage together.

I didn’t find this book as good as the earlier ones. It had it's moments but it felt like a transition book for the others in the series. So much worrying, arguing and discussion going on that I just skimmed through. Every two or three pages of action or progress seemed to a have a couple of pages of discussion over what happened, its ramifications to them and their training. Boring. Also, the word ‘fantastic’ comes up way too much and there’s not that much real storyline. Most of what there is, is about Camu.

That was a really easy riddle which shows you how messed up their heads were.

Footnote: 1) Egil reminds me of an emotional Spock. Everything’s fascinating or interesting.

Fave scenes: Camu in the pond, the discovery about the frozen dragon, playing in the snow and Gerd‘s final test.
22 reviews
March 26, 2024
Needlessly long and useless portion of this book.

So far, my least favorite of the series. The first 6 books all chronicled the training of the Panthers. Then we got a few books of their missions and adventures. Urvi tried to bring some excitement into this edition of the story and succeeded, partially. Several times he repeated the same things, like the process of taking the potions and the magic to put them in the he training mode. Towards the end, he did start to abbreviate the process description. The different stages the characters had to go through before finally starting their specialization training was confusing. I don't understand why they all needed to go through, I'm guessing a familiarization of every specialization before they started their specialization training. It seems like Urvi needed to find a way to fill about half of the book and decided, "Hey! Let's make everyone train for something for no reason."
I've been enjoying the series. But, if future books in this series turn out to contain large, useless segments like this, then I'll be moving on to other books.
23 reviews
June 26, 2024
El peor libro de toda la saga hasta el momento. Aburridísimo a más no poder. No le doy 0 estrellas porque no puedo.
El libro anterior fue de relleno pero que este también lo sea me parece el colmo. Está lleno de faltas de ortografía y da la sensación de que el autor se ha cansado de escribir su propia saga; y yo me empiezo a cansar de leerla.

Me ha costado muchísimo leerlo de lo aburrido y repetitivo que es y sigue teniendo los mismos problemas que libros anteriores. Ya me esperaba que Nilsa siguiera por la misma línea involutiva (me parece un personaje que empeora en cada libro en vez de mejorar y evolucionar) pero que Viggo también haya dado pasos gigantescos hacia atrás en su evolución no me lo esperaba. Se le notaba en el libro anterior pero quise creer que era solo un problema de ese libro y resulta ser que no, que Viggo también se sube al carro de ir a peor. Y el resto de los personajes siguen estancados desde hace varios libros como siempre.

Este libro me parece un error evitable.
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326 reviews2 followers
April 12, 2022
okay

This book was a bit tedious. Still gave it 4 stars because I have enjoyed the series. I very much enjoy Lasgol. Especially when he isn’t relegated to a secondary character in this series. I don’t much enjoy the character of Nilsa, Ingrid, or even Viggo lately. The author seems to be keeping them at teen level, which doesn’t make sense. I’m thinking too, there is something about the translation. I can’t wrap my head around some of the things the way they are described. All the snorting going on, for example. Can’t picture it. Anyway, will still read the next and hope for the story to actually move forward and not stay stagnant.
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1,902 reviews3 followers
February 16, 2025
His name is Camu, not creature

I do love this series a great adventure, with young slow burn romance, plus a whole lot of mystery with a war going on, the difference between soldier and rangers is skill of course different training but soldiers follow orders, rangers gets orders but follow out the plans as they are fit. (Also higher rank)
This book was more about more training and a power hungry elder in my opinion, why would you trust someone who calls a member of your family creature not camu, even viggo gave him a nickname (because he cares)
Don't trust people who call him creature.
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266 reviews4 followers
October 17, 2025
Este aunque ha tenido cosas muy relevantes como:
1. El Orbe es una magia muy arcana que está llamando a Camu
2. Con el Orbe y Camu pueden utilizar poder combinado para utilizar la Perla como portal
3. El entrenamiento superior es muy peligroso y deja secuelas a Gerd que para la prueba final pasó 2 semanas inconsciente
Todos reciben los medallones que los establecen como especialistas y a Viggo, Ingrid y Astrid tiene 3 especialidades junto con la que ya contaban.
Lasgol que ya contaba con 2 obtiene otras 3 ósea tiene 5
Gerd obtiene la de maestro de animales
Nissa la de cazador de magos
Y Egil obtiene 2 la de guardasanador y de especialista de fauna
Es sin duda un gran grupo súper preparado.
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290 reviews8 followers
July 31, 2025
Muy pobre y aburrido, solo un 10% vale la pena.
Otro libro mas con el maldito entrenamiento, con un desarrollo nulo de los personajes, mas de lo mismo otra vez.
Tengo el defecto de terminar lo que empiezo y menos mal que uso kindle unlimited.
No tiene sentido y se contradice, como la armonía de Lasgol, ahora resulta que no es aceptado por todas las disciplinas.
Y la situación de Viggo con Ingrid me desepera, ¡que pesadez de verdad!
Sería genial que acabara la saga aquí para no obligarme s seguir, ese libro no es necesario
3 reviews
April 1, 2022
I have enjoyed the series but this book missed the action and progression of the others. The characters have stalled...I now find myself skipping over sections with speaking amongst the group as it is redundant and the characters don't evolve. Viggo standard lines of "weirdo" or "know-it-all" is tiresome and Nilsa's ever resistance to magic has run it's course. The other books had multiple plot lines and intrigue...this book lacked all of that. It was a challenge to finish it.
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311 reviews2 followers
November 9, 2024
Muy entretenido, con mucha menos acción que los anteriores, pero con mucho más aprendizaje sobre las especialidades que nuestros protagonistas quieren conseguir...

Camu cada vez más travieso, más enigmático, y más adorable que nunca... Quiero saber más sobre sus orígenes, sus antepasados, su poder...

Con ganas de seguir las aventuras, y sobre todo después de ese final que me ha dejado un poco triste.
138 reviews
February 11, 2022
I was a little reluctant to give this book a 4; however, I felt it was closer to a 4 than a 3. The story seemed to move forward slowly with endless training. There was some action and excitement, but it seemed less than most of the other books. That being said, I still like the series overall and will continue reading the new books as they come out.
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213 reviews10 followers
February 12, 2022
Well now will have to admit that this one wasn't as good as the previous books. True they did have a few things of interest happen but it was mainly all about the new "Higher Training". Looking forward to the next book which I'm hoping is a great improvement over this one here. And I'm hoping to find out if one of the Elders and one of their friends fully recovers.
4 reviews
April 13, 2023
Bit disappointed!

Still entertaining reading but quite repetitive and the interplay between characters gets somewhat tedious and juvenile at times. Seems to be a filler book to extend the series. Not sure it will be worth further time if the pace and level of writing does not pick up!
224 reviews1 follower
July 5, 2024
Great and Exciting Read

I am very pleased with the style and Urvi's writing skills. Many times I felt as though I was experiencing these adventures myself. The backgrounds and characterizations are so believable. I almost feel as though I also passed the specializations test. I am looking forward to the next book.
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