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Sir Rowan and the Camerian Conquest by Chuck Black
ISBN: 978-1-60142-129-6
Paperback, 182 pages (available in ebook format)
Publisher: Multnomah
Retail: $9.99
If you’ve read one of the “The Knights of Arrethtrae” books then you’ve read them all? Well, maybe.
This is the 2nd book of the Chuck Black’s books I have read and it was much like the first. Of course there were different main characters with a “problem” to overcome to accept the Prince and to serve Him.
The main character of Book 6, Sir Rowan and the Camerian Conquest is … Rowan. There are lesser main characters also, such as Mariah and Sir Aldwyn…and about 1/2 to 3/4 of the way through Lijah, who becomes one of the main characters from then on out. Make sense? Really, though there aren’t too many people to keep track of- which I was thankful for.
Sir Rowan starts as an oprhan child that has had to rise up from the slums to be something great. He handles a sword like no other and eventually is trained to be a Knight of the Prince. He pledges his allegiance to the Prince but he doesn’t live by the Code and is over taken by greed and vanity. Rowan at the height of his fame is kidnapped for ransom…but no ransom comes. His kidnappers leave him to die but he is found by Mariah, a widow. From then on, Rowan thinks on his past and the mistakes he’s made. He gains strength and knowledge of the problems that those who follow the Prince have been going through and what is to come. I don’t want to ruin the book for any one but I will say that one of the characters dies and it’s very sad
But in the end, it’s all good 
Interestingly, but not surprisingly, Black has taken the history of our world (Biblical history) and used it in this story. He changes the names of places but you get the idea. Near the end when Rowan and Lijah are telling the people of Chessington about the Prince and the things to come, they mention when the people were persecuted and imprisoned, “and the King heard our cries and delivered us from Fairos. Here He brought us to a land of great wealth and prosperity…When we turned out backs on Him again and were carried into captivity by the Kessons to Daydelon, He had mercy on us and brought us back to this great city and rebuilt our homes once more.” There are also names of rivers that sound a lot like our modern-day rivers (Frates and Tisgri, in the book- Euphrates and Tigris, in real life).
There is fighting a plenty in this book and fortunately for me, it’s short and to the point (I’ve a short attention span when it comes to “jab, thrust, twist, slice, etc”- fighting in general). There is ‘romance’ but it is wholesome and clean (thank goodness). The final purpose is to share the hope of Jesus Christ through a story. It isn’t too bad of a book. My ds (11) enjoyed it and we would both like to read the others in the series.
I received this book from Waterbrook Multnomah Blogging for Books program. I was not required to write a positive review.
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Hi Blossom - sounds like an interesting series. I appreciate when Christian history is woven in in such a way that it's evident even though the names are changed. My boys might like these books.
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We have the series. My ds liked them at first but sort of lost interest after a few books. I read one myself and didn't think it was great writing, but it was okay.
ReplyDeleteI saw your comments. Haven't read The Sweetest Thing, but it sounds good. Same author? Can I ask why you have been hesitant about Already Compromised. I'm just sort of being nosy. :-)
It looks like a good book that maybe I can get my son to read.
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