Fel'annár is a gifted immortal warrior embarking on his first patrol into the Deep Forest. Half-Silvan, half-Alpine, he battles the enemy from without, and the prejudice from within. But he learns more than just warfare when an arcane power begins to emerge, one he cannot control.

While friendships are forged, a destiny unfolds, one that is tied to a past he knows nothing about. For others, though, it is only a matter of time before the truth is revealed, and the danger becomes real.

If you love high fantasy worlds with compelling characters on a dangerous mission, you can't miss Path of a Novice, book one in the epic fantasy series The Silvan Saga.

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R.K. Lander
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Daniel Thomas May
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February 12, 2019
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English
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B07N33FSQ4
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Listening Length	9 hours and 23 minutes
Author	R.K. Lander
Narrator	Daniel Thomas May
Audible.com Release Date	February 12, 2019
Publisher	Tantor Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B07N33FSQ4
Best Sellers Rank	#23,736 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #101 in Magical Realism Fiction #579 in Fantasy for Teens #943 in Magical Realism

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LadyMcBeath

Elves like you’ve never known before

Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2019

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I haven’t enjoyed elves this much since I met Drizzt back in the day. I couldn’t give it five stars, even though I loved it, because it’s a story about warriors that lacks good battle scenes. But it’s exciting, with great characters and decent world building. It’s just too obviously written by a woman. These are the most emotional elves I’ve ever encountered. They spend a little too much time braiding each other’s hair. The magic system is largely undefined so it’s use comes without context. The military situation feels unexplained. They are raided regularly, but not by an army seeking to conquer. The enemy seems to have no purpose other than destruction. Also, there is a large back story of how a minority of Alpine elves came to conquer the Silvan nation which could have been explored but is largely ignored. Perhaps it will be explored in future volumes. Which I look forward to, in spite of my rating.

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Pacfam

Loved It!

Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2022

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What a wonderful writer. The style is a beautiful prose. Old-fashioned but so descriptive and elegant. I could keep reading for a very long time. I will certainly read more from this author and encourage others to do so, also. You will be captivated by the hero and the world he lives in. Themes of racial equality, true friendship and political stagnation abound.

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Tioni

MUST READ

Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2022

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This book is the first book in a series that will reel you in and won't let go until the end. It was such an amazing book and written so well that I felt that I was actually there; that I knew the people in the book; I laughed with them, I cried with them, was scared with them, hated with them and loved with them. This review isn't solely for this book but the whole series. I would recommend this series to anyone.

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Great Read

Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2020

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Strong parallels to the current crisis for the total good rather than individuals, tribes or parties. Really puts in perspective, yea you really are right, let’s do it the dumbest way possible to make it easier for you or you all, and the suffering we put each other through while we make hero’s of this or that group at the expense of the masses. Plus the writing is easy to follow and who doesn’t love the elves and forests? Plenty of action for the adventurer in all of us, thanks...

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Troy Allen

Fantastic!!!

Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2021

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I loved this book and am excited to read the rest of this series. This author really knows how to tell a story that captivates you! I couldn't put the book down!

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Rick Erb

Outstanding with only one critique.

Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2018

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One of the best Elven books I've ever read!! But regretfully do have one major (maybe major to me only) critique; the cover art is as good as the book (tremendous) BUT it bothers the bejesus out of me that the wonderful art is spoiled by the elven warrior holding a recurve bow from the current era, one we can buy in most any sports store. Need an elf's warrior bow!!

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MJE

Excellent Book

Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2021

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R.K. Lander, thank you. Excellent
story line. This first book was hard to put down. Highly recommend this series. You will not be dissatisfied.

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Brian

Good book

Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2022

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Good book would recommend

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Tiree

shallow book extremely badly written with poor language skills

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 25, 2018

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I found this book to be exceedingly shallow in its scope and plot. I found the politics to be simplistic. The descriptions were cursory at best (eg: the courtyard below the royal chambers) and did not work to provide an holistic evocation of a large world. The constantly highly-charged emotional state of the characters seemed odd to me, unrealistic. The language was bombastic and the lexical choices were bizarre to say the least. It seemed to me that someone had chosen to use the longest words they could, after checking them in a dictionary, however their usage was not correct within context. I found out after I had finished reading the book that it was not written by a native English-language speaker so that may go some way towards explaining the weird grammatical constructions and inappropriate lexical choices.

The author also slipped from narrating through the eyes of the characters, to narrating from a ‘God-stance’. One example is: they were walking through a courtyard looking at ‘studies’ and ‘healing halls’ off to the sides. They could not know this at this point as they had just arrived. You would have to insert ‘what looked like’ ground-floor studies.

On a positive note, I thought the dialogue was generally not too bad and some of the characters reasonably well-drawn.

It was simply not believable that the main character had never heard of the King's indiscretion, since this appeared to be a well-known historical fact to everyone else.

I add some notes below to highlight some of the language issues. Many passages needed to be re-worked but there were too many to list here. I had 140 pages of ‘notes and marks’ on my kindle, where the text needed to be amended.

This is a poorly-written book which needed much proof-reading and editing prior to publication, which obviously did not happen. The Epilogue was particularly dreadful.

Vocabulary

Everywhere the author has used ‘thusly’ should be either removed entirely or replaced by more appropriate vocabulary. ‘Thusly’ should not be used at all.

‘to be banished thusly by the Silvans’ should be ‘to be banished by the Silvans’

The author should also remove every ‘utter’ which is included in the text – ‘utter’ is simply not required and where it is included is inappropriate.

‘his antagonist’s comment somehow ameliorating his aggressive emotions rather than exacerbating them’ should be ‘somehow modifying his aggressive emotions rather than fuelling them’

‘gesticulating wildly’ should be ‘gesturing wildly’ (‘to gesticulate’ has the sense of ‘to point’)

‘adverse to the idea of’ should be ‘averse to the idea of’

‘an onerous weight settled in his chest’ should be ‘a heavy weight settled in his chest’

‘simply burned carelessly’ should be ‘simply burned indiscriminately’

‘prompted the king monotonously’ should be ‘prompted the king dully’ (indeed on every occasion ‘monotonous’ is used, it should be replaced with more appropriate vocab)

‘with time came a purge of what worked, what didn’t, what might’ should be ‘with time came a synthesis of what worked’

Grammar

In general, the commas are placed incorrectly within sentences throughout the entire book. Commas are also used too liberally by the author and are often not required.

‘one he had craved for’ should be ‘one he had craved’ (the ‘for’ is included in ‘craved’)

‘to earlier promotion’ should be ‘to early promotion’ (if you use the word ‘earlier’ here it means promotion that happened earlier in the day, for example)

‘the noble onus of protecting Valley’ should be ‘the noble responsibility for’, or ‘the noble charge of’ (‘onus’ means ‘putting emphasis on’ eg: the onus was on him to do the deed)

‘since for as long as he could remember’ should be ‘for as long as he could remember’ (the ‘since’ is not required)

‘fields sprawled endlessly into the horizon’ should be ‘fields sprawled endlessly to the horizon’

‘gesturing for them to dismount somewhat rudely’ should be ‘gesturing rudely for them to dismount’ (they are not dismounting rudely, it is the gesture that is rude)

‘Far be it from he to distrust the word’ should be ‘Far be it from him to distrust the word’

Tenses

‘being lain to waste by the Sand Lords’ should be ‘being laid to waste’

‘it was the Silvans that lead the festivities’ should be ‘it was the Silvans that led the festivities’

‘as they danced and they drunk’ should be ‘as they danced and drank’

Constructions of sentences and paragraphs

Too many problems to list.

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CasT

Couldn't put down

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 27, 2019

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I'd had this book on my kindle for a while before finally getting round to it. The blurb and synopsis intrigued me, but didn't truly grab me. I was on holiday, bored and decided what's to lose, I'd already bought it for less than a loaf of bread. What I discovered with each page was a world I became enthralled by. The depths to each character, the vivid beauty of both lush forest and stone architecture, the detailed fights both physical and verbal with all their horror, pain, fear, relief, joy, sadness, pride and shame. This author writes of a world I found myself wanting to literally jump into and join. Share the camaraderie, the laughter and even the pain. Watch our main protagonist grow, slowly learning what others already see.
PS) FYI, I ended up buying the other two in the series and had to read them before I could take the time for this review!

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Kingshussar

I think this story has lots of relevance today with race playing a major part.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 11, 2020

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I am now on book three, I can honestly say this series of books is the best I have read in the last 10 years at least and I have been reading epic fantasy for over 40 years, this lady is right up there with the very best and I include George Martin, Steven Erickson Tad Williams etc, I just can’t put it down the world building is awesome the story has everything a fantasy nut craves, it also has ( Uniquely I think) very moving dialogue involving main characters. Brilliant

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Spiced Wine

A rich, absorbing new fantasy world

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 3, 2018

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I so thoroughly enjoyed this. R.K. Lander leads us into a world where, instead of being on the sidelines, the Elves are the main actors. They are passionate and proud, skilled and flawed. The Alpine Race, having advanced into the Silvan lands, seem benign enough rulers, but there is a dark underbelly of racism and superiority. The Silvans cling to their forests and trees with which they have an almost symbiotic relationship.

Emerging to straddle the two races comes Fel’annár, offspring of both Alpine and Silvan, with all that will entail.

There are rich characters, underlying conflict, as the path of this young novice warrior, who cannot be hidden, much though some would wish him to be, steps forward...

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Me Richard E. Jervis

Best read of the year so far !

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 4, 2018

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Classic, in the mould of Eddings and Fiest,.
This is only the first book and the reference to Eddings and Fiest might be a bit over the top, but it was a great book, the story well told and the cast of players well developed.
A must read for fans of fantasy!
Obviously books are all about personal taste but this really is worth a read !

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